Chop Onions for Split Pea Soup

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Stephanie Barnett here on behalf of Expert Village. I am going to show you today how to make fabulous Split Pea Soup. Now I want you to take your onion. You are going to cut off the top, you are going to cut off the bottom and you are going to cut it in half. Then you are going to just peel the skin or maybe even a first layer of the onion because sometimes its got a little bit of a skin and a brown on there. Then you are going to slice down. So you've got the onion all together and then you are going to slice it this way. Trim the onions; it is easier to slice. Now that is a pretty coarse chop. I want it a little bit finer for my soup so I am going to go back with my knife. I am going to keep the tip of my knife on the table and I am going to lift up, going to push the onion together and do the same thing. You want to keep chopping it until you get the size that you are looking for and you want it to be all uniformed. And see there was sort of a piece of papery outside that got in there; let's get that out. Nobody likes that in their soup. They'll taste it and go, what's that and that's it. "