How to Caramelize Onions

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village I'm Laura Banford. I'm going to teach you how to make a super sandwich. As I said we're using all clad pan, not a non stick pan because we want the onions to get nice and brown. Why do I say caramelized? As opposed to as just cook the onions that is unsalted butter by the way as oppose as just to cooking the onions or sweat the onions. What you do to caramelize anything a lot of times it's onions or some kind of onion is you want to cook it slowly over a medium heat, medium to low heat. So that the onions brown they are already deepened in flavor and they are going to deepen in color and that happens over time. Our butter melted, we'll get our onions in the pan now you want as much of the surface of the onion as possible to hit the pan. That is going to allow them to brown if they are all piled up in a clump they are not going to brown you want as much surface of the food. In this case, onion to hit as much surface of the pan as possible. To get the caramel processing and to help with the flavor some coarse salt, some freshly ground pepper and this helps too a little bit of sugar. This is organic coarse sugar onions at their heart are really sweet. This is just going to go a little bit further to bring out the sweetness of the onion. Resist the effort to move them around what you're really going to do is leave them alone and let them do their thing, let them caramelized. Moving them around, you're removing them from the surface of the pan you really want them to sit flat on the pan as much as possible. That's going to take about ten minutes so when we come back, we're going to cook our mushrooms."