As a little girl, sitting on the kitchen counter "helping" my dad cook, he told me he was putting onions in the dish and I in my 3 year old wisdom answered, "But I don't like onions." It is something my parents love to remind me that I said. And to this day at the age of 22 I still don't really care for onions, something about the texture. But I do like the flavor that onions add to dishes and will eat them. Last weekend I was given a bunch of ginormous red onions. My dad was thrilled and we used a lot fresh in salsa, tacos, on burgers and sandwiches. We decided to do an experiment with four of the onions. In my dehydrator (which is literally falling apart), I dehydrated the onion and the greens. The first time around onions dehydrated filled one quart mason jars and the greens filled one quart mason jar. The second two onions I dehydrated just the onion because the greens were just looking very sad and not so green anymore. This one is actually still dehydrating (I just put them in this morning).
The first batch took about 20-24 hours to dehydrate and I didn't lay them out nicely, some were a little layered on top of each other, but it all came out nice and dry. We are planning to use the onions to make flavored salt, in soups, and also we are going to grind some of is to powder. The greens, I think would be good in soups, as well as in scrambled eggs or an omelet to give a little bit of onion flavor.
As a little girl, sitting on the kitchen counter "helping" my dad cook, he told me he was putting onions in the dish and I in my 3 year old wisdom answered, "But I don't like onions." It is something my parents love to remind me that I said. And to this day at the age of 22 I still don't really care for onions, something about the texture. But I do like the flavor that onions add to dishes and will eat them. Last weekend I was given a bunch of ginormous red onions. My dad was thrilled and we used a lot fresh in salsa, tacos, on burgers and sandwiches. We decided to do an experiment with four of the onions. In my dehydrator (which is literally falling apart), I dehydrated the onion and the greens. The first time around onions dehydrated filled one quart mason jars and the greens filled one quart mason jar. The second two onions I dehydrated just the onion because the greens were just looking very sad and not so green anymore. This one is actually still dehydrating (I just put them in this morning).
