Powdered fried onion - universal seasoning. With it even the simplest dishes change, gaining surprising aroma and color. In shops, ready flakes of fried onions are on sale, but they can be prepared in house conditions.
How to make powdered fried onion
Preparation of a powdered fried onion in a frying pan will take about 30 minutes. For a start it is necessary to clean onions or onions shallot from a peel. The amount of onions depends on the frying pan sizes. It is necessary that it completely covered its bottom. Onions need to be cut on thin half rings - as for a julienne. Pour a large number of vegetable oil in a frying pan as onions will be fried in hot fan. Place onions in hot oil and let's it be fried till caramel color. It is important to watch that onions didn't burn down. Then the fried onions need to be laid out on a paper towel that excess oil flew down. The cooled-down onions have to be crunchy and dry to the touch. For final dehydration onions can be placed in an oven on the minimum temperature (100-110 °C) for 30 min. But it is optional, at the correct pro-frying onions are dried already rather up. Ready flakes can be ground hands in powder or to use in the whole look. It is necessary to store a powdered fried onion in a hermetic can.
If at your place there is a deep fryer, then process of roasting of onions becomes simpler many times. Set the suitable mode of preparation, fry onions and let's it dry out on a special metal insert. For a deep fryer onions can be not cut small, it is enough to divide a bulb into four parts and to sort on flakes.
How to use a powdered fried onion
Powdered fried onion is traditional seasoning of Asian cuisine. Sous - so name Qingtou him in Thailand - is widely used for preparation of soups, hot dishes and snack from meat, fish and seafood and also as a breading for rolls. By the way, flakes of fried onions in itself are quite good snack for beer. Poland prepares them in batter or in powder from potato starch and serve with gherkins, the Dutch or tomato sauce. A powdered fried onion is added to dough for unsweetened pastries. Onions buns have incomparable aroma and taste. France serves them to first courses, but they are good and as a separate dish. Transparent soups at addition of a powdered fried onion gain pleasant golden color and a fine onions aroma. If to strew with flakes of fried onions a ready garnish whether it be boiled potatoes, pasta or a vegetable salad, it will reveal for you from the new party. A powdered fried onion is the concentrated product. 100 гр a product replace 1 kg of fresh onions therefore it is spent very economically. Onions are stored in a glass jar with a dense cover within several months. If on a bottom banks to put a linen sack with rice, it will protect a product from a mold.