I was going to buy a 20lb bag of onions today, but the 50lb bag was on sale for the same price!! If COURSE I got the 50lb bag.
I need suggestions on how to use this beauties before they go bad. Please share with me what you would do! Freezer-friendly meal prep is preferred!
by 99chihuahuas
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Here’s what I have planned:
– A few big meal prep batches of my fav veggie-heavy spaghetti sauce (frozen into individual meals).
– a big batch of caramelized onions, divided into convenient freezer portions!
– dicing a ton of fresh onions into freezer bags for easy reaching over the next many months
That’s all I’ve got so far
Fajita veggies, pico de gallo & caramelized onions to start
I’d tie one onion to my belt, since it’s fashion of the time.
Whenever I make Swiss Steak it uses at least a couple decent sized onions. Not sure how to help with freezer friendly stuff though. I make most of my meals to eat fresh.
French onion soups
Practically everything has onions in it. You could make batches of a lot of stuff other than spaghetti sauce, although that’s a really good use of it. Chilli, soups, meat balls.
The first thing I’d do tho is make a big batch of onion rings. I know those might not freeze up as well but still, mmmmm onion rings.
Caramelize them all. After all is done you’ll end up with like a quart of caramelized onions, and that’s like a few days worth of French onion soup. Jokes aside tho, I think caramelizing them and then freezing is the best route. I don’t like how freezing raw onions affects them.
Bloomin onions for everyone
i love a diced frozen onion, i get to eat exponentially more onion when i have them on hand. however if you are going to put the work into caramelizing, you might as well go whole hog
eat onion
Id learn a good onion ring recipe and proceed to gain 10 pounds.
Pickle? I normally go red but I’m sure these would work
I grow onions for our family. 150-200 onions can store decently for 6 to 8 months. If you’d consider just storing them, I would pull them out of that bag and put into individual flat boxes with ventilation (Costco is a good source for those boxes), and store them somewhere cool, dry and dark. Every few weeks just check out your boxes and make sure that none are rotting, and if they are get rid of them.
If you were diligent about it, you could probably work your way through 50 lb in 6 weeks.
FYI, if you keep them somewhere cool and dark, they’ll probably last a very long time. So you should be okay with just keeping whatever you’ve got leftover in a cupboard after you’re done
Share with some people
caramelize them, don’t criticize them 🎶
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew…..
How much pot you got? Is it big enough to make 50lb french onion soup? If so feed the village
Onion soup every day.
Onion rings, onion strings, blooming onions, french onion soup, hotdogs/ hamburgers with raw/sauted onions, various soups and stews.
French onion soup in bulk. Give a few onions to your neighbors ? Cut them up and freeze them in slices or caramelized
French onion soup, onion oil, crispy onion chips, caramelized onion
All of those use a lot of onion
Make enough onion soup to fill a swimming pool. 🙂
French onion soup !
Purée, put into IV bag and straight to the veins
Oh boy, I would love to have that problem.
You can always chop and freeze a bunch, you can cook with them fine in stews and such.
Also – so much onion soup 😋
French onion soup, big batch of genovese pasta sauce mostly for the freezer, caramelize some, maybe bacon-and-onion-jam, and since onions keep for a pretty long time I’d probably use the rest in a month or so. I like raw onion in quite a few things and tend to cook some masala-based indian(ish) dish at least twice a week, so I go through a lot of onions.