Easy way to cook with onions

We love to cook with onions and garlic. In fact, a few onions and a clove or two of garlic are the basis for most of our meals and most of the vegetables that we serve up.  As I am writing here,   I am realizing that we eat onions and garlic on (almost) a daily basis. WOW.

So what is the one part about cooking with onions that we absolutely hate… YES, the chopping of the onions.  All the shedding of tears etc… makes the whole job a real pain. But we are here to tell you that we have found a way to overcome this nightly onion situation.

Chop up 2 or 3 onions one night, and then freeze extras in a plastic bag.

What we do is exactly that. Sometime when we are cooking and have a bit more time in the kitchen (like a Saturday afternoon), we will chop up some extra onions, say 2 of them, and then place them in a zip-top bag and freeze them.  It helps to keep the bag as flat as possible as the onions are freezing.

Then when you are ready to cook with onions, you can just pour out some of the frozen onions right into the hot pan.  We have enjoyed having onions in more meals because we have a bag of frozen onions ready to cook in the freezer. It does not seem to be such a big deal to chop up a few onions to add to a meal when they are already to pour out into a pan, right?

Note: Because they were frozen, these onions might make some extra noise in your pan as they hit the hot oil, but so just be aware that they might make a popping noise and spit some oil out at you.

Bag of Frozen Onions