Chop Onion for Scalloped Potatoes Recipe

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Richard Buccola here in New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to show you how to make Scalloped Potatoes. Alright you are going to need one small to medium onion. You are going to chop it and dice it and just cut off the ends right. Cut off the ends and put it to the side. Just slice this like so. Get off the skin and I tell you, this meal it just spruces up the potatoes. Everyone loves Scalloped Potatoes. I tell you it is always favorite at the holidays. Cooked ham just goes fantastic. Here's your onion. Just want to cut it in half and put that half on the side. Here's the line of the onions so just follow the lines. Again, always remember to keep your fingers, this from the knuckle in, the knife along it and you just pull back as you are chopping down. You don't have to be fancy. You see these cooking shows. Just be careful not to cut yourself. You are going to go with the lines of the onion that way and you are going to turn it this way and you are going to cut down. You are going to see a nicely chopped onion. That's it. You need about a half cup of onions chopped fine. If you don't like the way the onions are cut; onjuns I remember when I was a little kid and my friend across the street would call them onjuns. We used to make fun of him. Anyway when you get the onions and they are not chopped fine enough, just take your point and use the back end or the butt end of the knife back and forth to get a nice chopped onion. If you don't want to cry, don't lean over the onions and get that all in you. I've been cooking with onions so much now and for so long, I just don't cry but that is definitely a reason why you do. I tell you you are not making this Scalloped Potatoes, you are going to be crying. Especially if you are watching it and you don't make it. "