7 Tips to Make Fried and Crunchy Fried Onions

As one of the ingredients that are often added in cooking, fried onions can not only strengthen the aroma, but also serves as a flavoring dish. Crispy texture and tasty taste make fried onions a must-have topping in every dish, especially a soupy dish like soup, soto, or meatballs.

Although it looks easy, but it turns out to make fried onions require special tricks, you know. How to cultivate a less precise will make fried onion textured soft, oily, even flavored bitter because burnt.

So, how to make fried onions to produce a crunchy texture and tasty? Here's the review:

1. Select a large onion
   
   The type of onion used to make fried onions greatly determines the end result. Choose red onions that are large or medium and still fresh. Also, make sure the selected onion has a low water content.

2. Slice the red onion thinly
   
   Try to slice the onion with the right thickness, not too thin, but also not too thick. Onions that are sliced too thick will make the texture become mushy. To get a thin and evenly sliced result, you can also use a slicer or a more practical onion slicer.

3. Soak with salt water
   
   Before frying it, mix one tablespoon of salt with one liter of water and soak the onion for about 30 minutes. The salt water bath will make the onion feel more tasty and the texture becomes more crunchy.

4. Sprinkle cornstarch
   
   After finished soaking the onion with salt water, sprinkle a little cornstarch to make the fried onions feel more crunchy. Just add one teaspoon of cornstarch for one kilogram of red onion and let stand for a few minutes.

5. Dry the onion
   
   Place the onions to be fried on top of the container evenly and let stand for one to two hours. This method can make the water content in red onion is reduced and produce a crunchy texture of fried onions.

6. Fry until golden
   
   Use enough oil during frying so that the onion can be completely immersed. Also, use a small flame to prevent it from burning.
   Do not forget to stir onion that is being fried to make it cooked evenly. Drain as soon as the fried onion is golden because the heat left on the oil can make it too ripe.

7. Drain the onion
   
   After the onion is fried, do not rush to put it on the oil paper. The amount of oil absorbed on the paper will make the onions placed on it to be wet and not crunchy. Instead, drain first on the penis until the oil content is reduced.