Dicing Onions for Tortilla de Patatas

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm chef Rainer Wickel and I'm here today with Expert Village.com well we're onto our next step and now we need to prepare our onions. Now you can see on the ends of the onion right here, we don't want that in our onion mixtures, so we're going ahead to cut that off. So just go ahead slice that off throw that away, get the other side and do the same thing. And now what we want to do is you want to get the top layer off, we want to get the top skin off you can see how the onion is layered right here so just go ahead and grab that first layer and peel that off, lets get that layered onion off, you can throw that away, this is all we're going to be using. And once again with the onion that you want to do the same thing, you just want to slice it nice and thin, actually the same way we sliced the potato. The difference with the onions is we're actually going to dice these a little bit because we don't want really large onion chunks in there. And once it gets that thin go ahead and flip it over again and just dice it up, now go ahead and take this section, turn it around and cut it into nice pieces, nice little pieces, now remember this seems like a lot onions but once we cook these, these are actually going to cook in with the potatoes and there going to cook down. So go ahead and grab that whole stack, turn it around and just slice through it. There's no real art to this you know it doesn't have to be exact, you just want to make sure you don't have a lot of large onion pieces in there, but you can see we've diced those nice up and we have all our onions together, I still have the other potato to slice but this is how you prepare the onions and the potatoes to get ready for frying when we make our tortilla de patata."