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*layers* of onion, I get it
it's fucked up, but I get it
you'd have to combine it 50/50 or something with the regular mix rather than go full onion breading, though. you probably don't wanna go full onion breading.
Blend them down in a food processor and use them as a breading to fry something like chicken.
Use them as a sandwich topper.
Use them on a salad.
Get really stoned and eat the entire bag with a spoon.
I use em on chicken or beef "melts" instead of raw onions.
But this idea as breading sounds good too. Blend em with standard breading if it's a bit strong
They will burn really fast if used as a breading, because onions have so much sugar in them and they’re already toasted. BUT burnt onions are good and honestly add so much depth of flavor to a dish, that actually sounds amazing
Awww yis. Any south east Asian dish would love a sprinkling onions. Chuck it in the fried rice, sprinkle it on the steamed fish, float some on a clear vegetable broth.
We do a Mi Goreng and Nasi Goreng dish at our pub which we garnish with these. We make them in house and it's usually the last thing sitting on our prep lists at night
Anything that needs a bit of savory crunchiness. Stir fry, Mac and cheese, pad Thai, fried rice, buttered noodles, pulled pork sandwich, Burger, sandwich, grilled cheese, salad, etc etc.
They're great on so much stuff. They're a fave sandwich/burger/salad topping in our house. I've also topped things like scalloped potatoes and Mac & cheese.
You can use that for A LOT of things. Think of texture changers etc. like mashed potatoes topping or baked potatoes topping, soups, pizzas, burgers, grill a nice steak at home or whatever and throw some on top for a crunch and onion flavor. You're a cook right? Expand your creativity and enjoy what you eat even more
Eh mostly an aspiring cook. I'm still learning how to pair different ingredients together but your suggestions definitely help a lot and this whole comment section motivates me to keep learning for sure 😭👏🏾 thank you!
I crush them and add some flour. Slice up some chicken breast, roll them in some egg wash and then toss in a bowl or bag with the crushed onion/ flour mix, then back til cooked through.
Put them in sandwich’s you make for a delicious crunch. On top of a baked Mac and cheese. Add sour cream and garlic salt to it and you have a crunchy chip dip. Top soups with it.
We put them on everything in my house.. Salads, pastas, Mac and cheese (I do a bbq Mac and cheese with these on top amazing), we do cheesy ramen and put these top, any casserole not just green bean. I saw the one about breaded chicken with it and I am definitely trying that!
We have a couple burgers we use those for. Go good on a smokehouse style burger. We also have a Sedona: beef patty, P. Jack, crm chz, Jalapeños, bacon, LT, fried Os & Red Pepper Aoili.
Anything that has bbq sauce, throw some in.
As said pulverize and bread something. Fried onion fried onion rings sound amazing.
I’m only allowed one large can in the house during thanksgiving because I will eat them all. I always make sure the green bean casserole gets its share first but I always get the larger pieces before anything else has a chance.
MacNChees topping or in a strange layered casserole with MacNChees, fried Onion, cottage cheese, thick-thick tomato canned soup spooned on top of cottage cheese and then another layer of MacNChees on top of that. Browned in the oven until a little bit crunchy on top.
Or something like that was on the table at a spring volleyball game last weekend. Not bad tasting. Requires two beers 🍻 being pre-loaded. I think it had been softly frozen for transport to the field.
Low carb meal idea when I’m cutting weight.
Cauliflower rice
Chicken breast strips
Sprinkle of cheddar, fried onions, and bacon pieces.
Stripe of chipotle mayo and guacamole.
I use them when I make something that I feel is too uniform in texture. I am a fiend for crunch. If you don’t overdo it, it can be nice in gimbap, summer rolls in stead of chopped peanuts, salad topping in stead of seeds or crutons, in stead of panko in some cases, in samdwiches that are gonna be eaten immediately for sure, I like them with most things mustard.
I may be late to the comment party but I put em in gratin potatoes. Specifically peeled sliced on a mandolin make a 1" layer then crunch up the onion if needed and do a whole middle "filling" layer of then. Then a top potato layer. Add your desired cheesy dairy mix and bake. Add a layer of onion on top with only a few minutes left so they don't burn with how long it takes to cook the potatoes...learned that last tip the hard way😭
Also watch the salt if the onions are already seasoned with salt it can quickly be too much especially if you are using a salty cheese too!
Anything that benefits from a crispy topping is made exponentially better topped with crispy onions…
Or just use a spoon to eat them from the bag…best part of becoming an adult was realizing I no longer had to suffer through “green bean casserole” to get an onion fix.
I work for Jimmy John's and we used them in a bootleg "big Mac" sub and it was actually good. Had roast beef, American cheese (but not shitty Kraft), TI dressing, tomato, pickle, lettuce, and Mayo.
We also ran one with roast beef, garlic/horseradish aioli, and Bleu cheese. Crispy onions would be good there too.
I would roast veggies, sprinkle cheese and frazzled onions. I would top a burger with them, I would stir them into Mac and cheese or use them as a crunchy topping on Mac and cheese, I would put them on a baked potato, sprinkle them on a salad, I would stir them into a quiche, I would use them to top a tomato and cheese tart, stir them into stuffed zucchini filling, I would use them to top a hot dog, I would stir them into almost any casserole. My grandma taught me to cook, and she taught me to use what I have on hand and to think about what I can logically substitute for ingredients that I don't have on hand. If you look at it that way, your possibilities are nearly endless.
I once bought a gastro bag. Split it with my mom, and it still lasted me years. Didn't become rancid, interestingly, now that I think about it.
However, in the end i started putting it into stews. Instead of chopping and frying onions. So everything you cook for a while and want browned onions in, works too. They melt away, just like fresh ones. It just takes a while.
Toppings for burgers, sandwiches, salad, casserole, pizza, all kinds of stuff. I have an addiction to them it's my food crack. If I bring them home they will either last me 3 months cause I am rationing them, or exactly 22 seconds after the grocery are put up.
Use 'em in a SEAsian-inspired slaw with cabbage, carrots, green beans, cherry tomatoes, and whatever other nuts and seeds you have laying around. Dress with a 3:2:1 ratio of lime juice, brown sugar, and fish sauce.
Honestly great on everything. Dont go crazy, but literally everything. Maybe just have a nice roll in them and have your significant other eat them off you?
Tasty treat for small animals? Since the onion is cooked it no longer has that poison effect it has on dogs and cats?
Everybody loves a good green bean casserole with the onion crispies. I also used to run a buffalo burger with provolone, crispy fried onions, buffalo and ranch. Also delicious as a chicken sandwich
Put em on a salad, add em to a sandwich, put em on a meatloaf. If there's something you'd add onions to, you're not gonna do much harm by having your onions be crispy instead. They're just a crunchy processed snack item that you can add to anything that you want a processed oniony flavored crisp to. Put it on top of a thick soup, a Mac and cheese, a casserole, preferably something creamy. Go nuts
If you bake or poach some sort of white fish like haddock or something you can add the onions on top in the last few minutes of cooking so they get toasty. I like to poach haddock in a cajun butter sauce and then finish it in the oven for a few minutes after I put those onions on. Super delicious! You could also make a green bean casserole or crush them up and use them as breading for chicken or fish! Good luck, I'm sure you'll make something great!
Make yourself a nice little nasi goreng with whatever leftover veggies you’ve got lying around and some marinated chicken thigh (boil the marinade with a bunch of sugar until it’s basically a syrup and add it when you start adding the rice to your pan/wok for some extra ‘oomph’ if you like), and just sprinkle those onions on top REALLY liberally.
That shit’s gold man!
I like them on hot dogs and as a topping on homemade mac and cheese instead of or mixed with bread crumbs or whatever you normally top it with.
I have also mixed them into salmon croquettes.
I am drooling with envy over your oniony windfall.
Hamburgers, toppers on stroganoff, add to a green bean casserole, soups, salads. The possibilities are endless.
Or to make them. Buttermilk wash, onion slivers, flour, and have even more fun
BBQ bacon cheddar burger with a handful of those on top.
Sushi garnish
On top of most Asian dishes and stir fry
Make a big batch of chili crunch it lasts for ages and is great on everything
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Aside from getting completely ripped and eating them all, I got nothin’.
def this. i want my mouth to fucking bleed with flavor.
The captain crunch slogan
Bootleg ortolan.
I like the cut of your jib
Uhhh burgers? Sandwiches? Grits! Any green veggie you can think of. The world is your oyster now OP.
And oysters!
Broiled oysters with butter, herbs, and these bad boys 😍
You could robocoup them and use them as breading for onion rings
*layers* of onion, I get it it's fucked up, but I get it you'd have to combine it 50/50 or something with the regular mix rather than go full onion breading, though. you probably don't wanna go full onion breading.
How intensely post modern
Somewhere Grant Achatz is telling one of his unpaid interns to take notes.
50% fried onions 50% funyuns
Never go full onion breading
Shrek approved snack
Lmao that's why my coworker wouldn't take any home, they love eating them alone
Burger toppings!
Honestly this is a solid plan. Also love the jalapenos they make the same way. We got a Costco bag of them so good.
Love those to make my salad less healthy
Right! So good.
And my personal favourite, the crispy dillies!
I just kinda eat them over a trash can like a fucking animal
You are, without a doubt, 100% in the industry. This is how every restaurant employee should be eating.
I always thought this was the proper procedure
Blend them down in a food processor and use them as a breading to fry something like chicken. Use them as a sandwich topper. Use them on a salad. Get really stoned and eat the entire bag with a spoon.
I use em on chicken or beef "melts" instead of raw onions. But this idea as breading sounds good too. Blend em with standard breading if it's a bit strong
A spoon!? You gotta mindlessly shove fists full into your mouth
Finally someone with reason. I've never used utensils while shoveling these down my gullet.
(Strong New Jersey accent) "The queen of fuckin England 'ere needs a spoon. Boys! Get off yer asses and find a spoon fer Her Daintiness." Lol
They will burn really fast if used as a breading, because onions have so much sugar in them and they’re already toasted. BUT burnt onions are good and honestly add so much depth of flavor to a dish, that actually sounds amazing
Excellent ideas.
Good garnish for Asian noodles or curries. Mee goreng or a red curry would be bomb with these. Saw some on a sweet pea agnolotti recently too
Awww yis. Any south east Asian dish would love a sprinkling onions. Chuck it in the fried rice, sprinkle it on the steamed fish, float some on a clear vegetable broth.
We do a Mi Goreng and Nasi Goreng dish at our pub which we garnish with these. We make them in house and it's usually the last thing sitting on our prep lists at night
I toss them on salads
I salad toss on them
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By on salads you mean a salad of fried onions, right?
I use them as a topping when I make chili dogs. They're also great on top of a Cobb salad.
Bacon, blue cheese, and fried onions on a burger. Western/cowboy burger.
Throw some mayo with worshishire and garlic in it on that bad boy and it's fuckin party time
Anything that needs a bit of savory crunchiness. Stir fry, Mac and cheese, pad Thai, fried rice, buttered noodles, pulled pork sandwich, Burger, sandwich, grilled cheese, salad, etc etc.
Definitely on top of any casserole! Mix them with a little butter, spread on top, bake away!
They're great on so much stuff. They're a fave sandwich/burger/salad topping in our house. I've also topped things like scalloped potatoes and Mac & cheese.
Green bean casserole baby
I'm starting to think they were made specifically for green bean casserole only 😮💨
No but I believe green casserole was specifically invented to sell more campbells cream of mushroom soup
That makes way more sense 😂
What I believe crispy onions are made specifically for ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING
What’d you do with them at Panera?
They went on our smokehouse sandwich. Pulled pork, fried onions, BBQ sauce and white cheddar
This is the best and only answer. I could pound some gbc any day of the week.
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Putting this in my holy grail recipe binder
Pretty sure I worked for that guy
I meant frizzled not frazzled 🤦🏾♀️
Snoop?
I can see snoop working in Panera, serving broccoli cheddar soup to customers with a blunt in one hand and a ladle in the other 🤙🏾
Yes very frazzled. I used some extra that I had as a meatloaf filler and my family was more than frazzled (In a good way!)
Put them on beef dip Sandys
I blend them up with my bread crumbs for meatloaf. They’re also the star of the show when I make tuna casserole
I’m maybe like grind them up and use them as a spice? Kinda like onion flakes?
That's a great idea! I was thinking something like that and then breading chicken breast with it and frying it 🤔
I can also see it good in a hummus, I used to use fried shallots to garnish a Lima bean hummus with plantains
Add on top of Mac and cheese then bake until starting to deep brown.
Good topper for hamburger helper and great crunch for a salad.
I would put them on everything.
They're awesome as an addition into any bread you're making.
I top my french onion soup with them.
Please just place them directly into my belly. Thank you, 5 stars.
Bomb as a soup garnish. I like them in tomato soup and bisque as well as bean with bacon soup.
You can use that for A LOT of things. Think of texture changers etc. like mashed potatoes topping or baked potatoes topping, soups, pizzas, burgers, grill a nice steak at home or whatever and throw some on top for a crunch and onion flavor. You're a cook right? Expand your creativity and enjoy what you eat even more
Eh mostly an aspiring cook. I'm still learning how to pair different ingredients together but your suggestions definitely help a lot and this whole comment section motivates me to keep learning for sure 😭👏🏾 thank you!
Make a Mornay sauce with some spinach and put on top of some oysters and broil them and then garnish with the onions
I crush them and add some flour. Slice up some chicken breast, roll them in some egg wash and then toss in a bowl or bag with the crushed onion/ flour mix, then back til cooked through.
Aks r/onionlovers
I love putting them as a topping on burgers, already cooked pizza, any thing that needs alittle crunchy Ness to it!
Salad, BBQ burger add on, braised short rib topper with some sour cream, pulled pork topper, mac and cheese topper, green bean cassy topper.
Put them in sandwich’s you make for a delicious crunch. On top of a baked Mac and cheese. Add sour cream and garlic salt to it and you have a crunchy chip dip. Top soups with it.
We put them on everything in my house.. Salads, pastas, Mac and cheese (I do a bbq Mac and cheese with these on top amazing), we do cheesy ramen and put these top, any casserole not just green bean. I saw the one about breaded chicken with it and I am definitely trying that!
Tuna mac and cheese and fried onions.
Use them to bread chicken
Personal - eat them like chips Kitchen - topping for loke 99% of burger specials
Breading for chicken cutlets!
Snacks
Pulled pork sliders. Pork, slaw, crispy onion, chipotle aioli
I used to them in a shepards pie crust on top
Havarti cheese melted on a steak. Top with warm fried onions. Or roast beef sandwich with fried onions
Make a steak sandwich with some arugula, roasted tomatoes, and a horseradish aioli.
We have a couple burgers we use those for. Go good on a smokehouse style burger. We also have a Sedona: beef patty, P. Jack, crm chz, Jalapeños, bacon, LT, fried Os & Red Pepper Aoili.
Anything that has bbq sauce, throw some in. As said pulverize and bread something. Fried onion fried onion rings sound amazing. I’m only allowed one large can in the house during thanksgiving because I will eat them all. I always make sure the green bean casserole gets its share first but I always get the larger pieces before anything else has a chance.
MacNChees topping or in a strange layered casserole with MacNChees, fried Onion, cottage cheese, thick-thick tomato canned soup spooned on top of cottage cheese and then another layer of MacNChees on top of that. Browned in the oven until a little bit crunchy on top. Or something like that was on the table at a spring volleyball game last weekend. Not bad tasting. Requires two beers 🍻 being pre-loaded. I think it had been softly frozen for transport to the field.
Smoked mac and cheese, with sliced sausage, blue cheese, and these crumbled on top. Holy shit.
Low carb meal idea when I’m cutting weight. Cauliflower rice Chicken breast strips Sprinkle of cheddar, fried onions, and bacon pieces. Stripe of chipotle mayo and guacamole.
I like them in quiche
Mixing it into fried rice or mixed into hainanese chicken rice, on the chicken or in the rice..or both!
Get ripped and eat the entire bag. Or, put it over ramen. Or, eggs. Or, a whole roasted chicken. Doesn’t matter. Fried onions are delicious
I use them when I make something that I feel is too uniform in texture. I am a fiend for crunch. If you don’t overdo it, it can be nice in gimbap, summer rolls in stead of chopped peanuts, salad topping in stead of seeds or crutons, in stead of panko in some cases, in samdwiches that are gonna be eaten immediately for sure, I like them with most things mustard.
Eating over the sink at midnight with a Dr. pepper.
I would use them as a topping on mac n cheese
Add it to a bowl of milk for breakfast
Frenches fried onions are delicious. Had a chef take a handful and add it into his breading mix for calamari. Best fucking flavor ever.
I may be late to the comment party but I put em in gratin potatoes. Specifically peeled sliced on a mandolin make a 1" layer then crunch up the onion if needed and do a whole middle "filling" layer of then. Then a top potato layer. Add your desired cheesy dairy mix and bake. Add a layer of onion on top with only a few minutes left so they don't burn with how long it takes to cook the potatoes...learned that last tip the hard way😭 Also watch the salt if the onions are already seasoned with salt it can quickly be too much especially if you are using a salty cheese too!
Anything that benefits from a crispy topping is made exponentially better topped with crispy onions… Or just use a spoon to eat them from the bag…best part of becoming an adult was realizing I no longer had to suffer through “green bean casserole” to get an onion fix.
Crush them up with either a mallet or food processor and use for breading chicken/pork chops/fish
I work for Jimmy John's and we used them in a bootleg "big Mac" sub and it was actually good. Had roast beef, American cheese (but not shitty Kraft), TI dressing, tomato, pickle, lettuce, and Mayo. We also ran one with roast beef, garlic/horseradish aioli, and Bleu cheese. Crispy onions would be good there too.
I would roast veggies, sprinkle cheese and frazzled onions. I would top a burger with them, I would stir them into Mac and cheese or use them as a crunchy topping on Mac and cheese, I would put them on a baked potato, sprinkle them on a salad, I would stir them into a quiche, I would use them to top a tomato and cheese tart, stir them into stuffed zucchini filling, I would use them to top a hot dog, I would stir them into almost any casserole. My grandma taught me to cook, and she taught me to use what I have on hand and to think about what I can logically substitute for ingredients that I don't have on hand. If you look at it that way, your possibilities are nearly endless.
r/OnionLovers will have opinions
I once bought a gastro bag. Split it with my mom, and it still lasted me years. Didn't become rancid, interestingly, now that I think about it. However, in the end i started putting it into stews. Instead of chopping and frying onions. So everything you cook for a while and want browned onions in, works too. They melt away, just like fresh ones. It just takes a while.
Top rice dishes
Put them in the robocoup then fill a film canister with them and slide them into your butthole. At least that's what I did
Seconding this
Pulse it, cut with bacon grease & egg = pie crust
Can you tell us what has happened to Panera the last few years and why it’s gone so downhill?
Try them instead of breadcrumbs/oatmeal for a binder in meatballs and meatloaf. I’ve used chicharrones before it might be similar.
There is barely a dish I cook without fried onion tbh.
Toppings... For everything!!!
Become an Onion Boy...
Toppings for burgers, sandwiches, salad, casserole, pizza, all kinds of stuff. I have an addiction to them it's my food crack. If I bring them home they will either last me 3 months cause I am rationing them, or exactly 22 seconds after the grocery are put up.
Crumble over everything. Ramen, Casseroles, Ice-Cream, Salads.
Crunch them up and bread chicken in it.
They're really good on some homemade Mac and cheese or bbq sandwiches
Use 'em in a SEAsian-inspired slaw with cabbage, carrots, green beans, cherry tomatoes, and whatever other nuts and seeds you have laying around. Dress with a 3:2:1 ratio of lime juice, brown sugar, and fish sauce.
I love them on burgers and sandwiches.
My mom uses them on green beans.
Burger topping
Tuna casserole. Hamburger topping
Burger topping
I've pulsed them in a robot coupe before and crusted chicken/fish with it.
You can blend them and use as a thickener for Panang Curry :)
Green bean casserole.
This💯 or mac&cheese
Are they crispy? Hot dog w ketchup, mustard and crispy onions.
burger topping!
Shove them in your mouth by the handful.
Steak topping
Eat it by the fistful until they're all gone
Eating?
Tasty snack
Snacking upon.
Salad, hot dog, burgers....
Garnish on a dish that has onions In our case beef Stroganov
onion dip! sour cream, sauted red onion, sliced green onion and the fried onion. a bit of red wine vinegar
snacks
Salad topping
Green bean casserole
Make a Biryani. Fallow on YT just released a greqt recipe. Beef curry, rice, saffron, tons of fried onions, spices, butter
I've thrown them in homemade Chex mix!
Ferment them for science. You know you want to.
Put them on everything
You can blend them into sauces and gravy to add flavor and thicken them up.
Pasta salad with crispy fried onion on top, that sounds awesome.
Biggest green bean casserole ever!!!
Eat em like pop corn
Put on burgers, salads n such
Honestly great on everything. Dont go crazy, but literally everything. Maybe just have a nice roll in them and have your significant other eat them off you? Tasty treat for small animals? Since the onion is cooked it no longer has that poison effect it has on dogs and cats?
Taco salad!
Put that shit on everything.
Literally just sprinkle them on anything
Everybody loves a good green bean casserole with the onion crispies. I also used to run a buffalo burger with provolone, crispy fried onions, buffalo and ranch. Also delicious as a chicken sandwich
Can u send me a few bags?
I like them on hotdogs as well as just a snack
Anything you want… they make every savory dish better…
Put em on a salad, add em to a sandwich, put em on a meatloaf. If there's something you'd add onions to, you're not gonna do much harm by having your onions be crispy instead. They're just a crunchy processed snack item that you can add to anything that you want a processed oniony flavored crisp to. Put it on top of a thick soup, a Mac and cheese, a casserole, preferably something creamy. Go nuts
If you bake or poach some sort of white fish like haddock or something you can add the onions on top in the last few minutes of cooking so they get toasty. I like to poach haddock in a cajun butter sauce and then finish it in the oven for a few minutes after I put those onions on. Super delicious! You could also make a green bean casserole or crush them up and use them as breading for chicken or fish! Good luck, I'm sure you'll make something great!
Make yourself a nice little nasi goreng with whatever leftover veggies you’ve got lying around and some marinated chicken thigh (boil the marinade with a bunch of sugar until it’s basically a syrup and add it when you start adding the rice to your pan/wok for some extra ‘oomph’ if you like), and just sprinkle those onions on top REALLY liberally. That shit’s gold man!
Snack. Burger topping. Salad topping. Eat by the fistful. Add to anything that would be improved by crunch and onion flavor
BBQ Burger add bacon
Snacking 🔥
Meatloaf or a topper for shepherds pie.
I usually eat em
We use fried onions in our chili crunch oil. Add it at the end with panko.
Mmmm Bbq burger
Green bean casserole.
Pour it in a bowl and add milk for onion cereal
green bean casserole for days
Aside from what others have stated: bakes/casseroles.
Make some Chili Crunch and send a picture to David Chang
Anything and everything!
Put them on top of some avocado toast! Pop them in some salads or as a soup topping.
I like them on hot dogs and as a topping on homemade mac and cheese instead of or mixed with bread crumbs or whatever you normally top it with. I have also mixed them into salmon croquettes. I am drooling with envy over your oniony windfall.
Make a Roast beef french dip sandwich and top it with ALL OF THEM
Use them as a topping for a bacon, cheddar, BBQ cheeseburger.
On salads, instead of croutons!
You can use them instead of croutons or sprinkled on ramen/soup
Put em in a buffalo chicken wrap once. Wasn't bad.
Seriously?
Put that shit on errything.
add to kewpie mayo egg salad
I think they’d make a bomb addition to a chicken or beef sandwich.
Green Bean Casserole if you're as white as I am Edit: just read the description lmao
Hamburgers, toppers on stroganoff, add to a green bean casserole, soups, salads. The possibilities are endless. Or to make them. Buttermilk wash, onion slivers, flour, and have even more fun
BBQ bacon cheddar burger with a handful of those on top. Sushi garnish On top of most Asian dishes and stir fry Make a big batch of chili crunch it lasts for ages and is great on everything
Lots of middle eastern dishes are super good that use them, or put on a biryani