How to Dice Onions
Basic cooking techniques
One of the very first tasks a beginning cook should learn. There are plenty of ways to dice an onion. This is how I do it.
What you will need
1 onion
1 sharp knife
(Nutritional facts 39 calories, 0.09 g fat, 9.25 g carbohydrates, 1.09 g protein, undefined mg cholesterol, 3 mg sodium)How to cook
1
Slice the tip off of the onion on the stem side. You only need to remove just enough to take off the outer skin.
2
Slice through the core and root tip of the onion to divide in two.
3
Peel away the papery outer skin. You may need to remove a couple of layers in order to get to the good part of the onion.
4
Using the tip of your knife, slice towards the root end at roughly 1/4" intervals, but don't slice through the back. You want the onion to remain whole.
5
With your knife parallel to the cutting board, slice towards the root again. This creates a hatch pattern through the onion. Watch out for those fingers!
6
Now, when you slice from the tip, you end up with nice little chunks of onion.
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