Cooking With Richard

How do you chop an onion? I guess most people start by chopping the ends off and peeling it, but here’s another method which is particularly useful.

Don’t peel it. First of all chop it in half. Make sure that the root stays intact because that is going to hold the onion together while we slice it up:

Now take the top-end off:

and peel:

This is the clever bit. The onion is still held together by the root, so we cut it four or five times from top to root, but again not cutting through the root so the onion stays together:

Now the onion can be sliced laterally to dice it:

and presto, a fine diced onion with very little effort:

Do you have a better way?

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