Chopping Onions for a Christmas Turkey

Video Transcript

"My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today I'm going to show you how to make a holiday turkey. Alright, so let's go ahead and cut up our onion. So this is all ready, I already cut this onion in half, because I only needed half of an onion. So we're just going to take our knife, cut right there, peel away the outer layer here. And you can see how this onion did something kind of weird. See how it still has skin going to the inside of it? So what we're going to have to do is we can just go like this, and basically trim that right out. So there, it's gone. You want to watch out for that because sometimes the skin can actually go from the inside, outside, all the way back into the inside of the onion. That could lead to some really not so great onion moments. So, all we're going to do here is we're just going to cut this onion into large like strips to just stuff inside the turkey. If you cut them too small, you're going to end up with your onions, they're just going to turn into mush inside. So something about like this, and then we're just going to cut it in half, just like that. Work it up with your hand to break it up a little bit. Because we don't want whole clumps of onion inside there, we want to actually break all the pieces apart, as best we can. And, let's see here, what I'm going to do is I'm actually going to put these in a bowl and season them with olive oil, salt, and pepper so we actually kind of season the inside of the turkey as well. So, with that being done, let's go ahead and get our bowl, and we'll just take, put our onion right into the bowl. Take just a tiny bit of olive oil, just like that, actually, I'll put that right there, a little bit of salt. Something else you can also do is you can also add garlic at this point. I'm just going to go with salt and pepper though. I'll be a bit of a traditionalist. There we go. We'll just take this, get your hand in there, get it all nice and olive oily. You don't want to use a whole lot though. You don't want a bunch of oil inside your turkey, just enough to soften up these onions as they cook. So now this will add a nice degree of flavor inside the onion, and as the onion steam, inside the turkey rather, and as the onion steam out, you'll get that oniony flavor inside. So let's move on to our bird again. "