We were invited to a barbeque a few weeks ago at the house of a professional chef. Simple barbeque – two salads and sausages – and indecent amounts of fine red wine.
The most memorable thing though was a potato salad which contained caramelized onion.
The chef would not give me the recipe. She never does.
So I found a recipe on the web. Here it is.
Simple – but modestly time consuming as you need to fry the onion very gently for 45 minutes. Also it is kind of important to have everything warm – so do the sauce immediately, then put on the onion and the potatoes only towards the end.
Highly recommended.
Better to do simple things really well.
2 comments:
What an excellent idea - a good potato salad is fantastic anyway, but the addition of caramelised onion sounds wonderful. I shall try this later this week - thanks. Caroline
Try caramelising a couple of onions (use a tiny bit of sugar, maybe 1/2 tsp) and if things are too hot in the pan, add a teaspoon of water to cool it down (won't ruin things).
After about 1/2 hr to an hour, you are done.
Then use the onion to make a pizza topping: a sachet of tomato paste, the onion, a little very finely chopped anchovy (about 2), and some really nice pitted and halved kalamata olives. Olive oil, no salt (plenty in the anchovy).
Cook that in a hot oven (at least 220 degrees) until its done and serve in small slices hot. An appetiser to get you going before a meal.
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