Transform Any Creamy Dressing With Burnt Onions
When you first start cooking, you are told that burnt food is bad. If sitcom writers want to inform their audience that the housewife is doing her job poorly, they often force her to burn the dinner and perhaps turn on a smoke alarm so that fun can occur. But some things are really well burnt. Onions are one of those things.
Ranch cleaning is good, and – if its widespread appearance on trendy menus in trendy restaurants is an indicator – it looks like it’s finally okay for serious culinary people to admit it. This surge in popularity has resulted in me eating a lot of “high looks” on ranch clothing and I’m not upset. I had a wasabi ranch and a harissa ranch, but my favorite is the fried onion ranch .
Burnt onions are good in fancy homemade ranch dressings, but they’re also good in cheesy store-bought dressings. They add a deep, deep-fried onion note, but they also add bitterness, which is a great addition if you want to shake up a monotonous flavor profile or take away from overly synthetic, factory-made aromas. I added it to the Hidden Valley Ranch package, tried it and found myself fantasizing about selling it to hipster restaurants for financial gain.
I’m too lazy for the salad dressing scam, but I’m not too lazy to add burnt onions to every creamy dressing I make or buy for the rest of my days (or at least until I get bored of myself.) won’t move on to something else like me). A whole onion, chopped and burnt, is enough to season two cups of the dressing. Start at the ranch, then try the toasted blue cheese onions and toasted Caesar onions. To make the burnt onion dressing, you will need:
- 1 white onion
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 2 cups dressing
Cut the onion in half and cut into thin semicircles. Heat oil over high heat in a large stainless steel skillet, add onion and sprinkle with salt. Stir quickly to distribute the oil evenly, then leave everything a little bit alone. As soon as the onion starts to burn, stir it from time to time until it looks like the onion in the photo above (i.e. burnt).
Remove the onions from the skillet, let cool, then grind them into two cups with your favorite dressing using a blender (submersible or regular). I highly recommend buying a bag of Hidden Valley Blend and preparing it according to the packaging directions with the addition of burnt onions. Two cups of ranch may seem like too many ranches, but two cups of burnt onion ranch is enough.