If you don't like onions, how do you start cooking?

[hunkermunker]

My culinary repertoire pretty much starts and ends with "chop an onion and add stuff to it". I can make all kinds of things, but what do you do if you don't eat onions?!

oh please tell me. as dh wont touch anything with onions in. makes for some rather boring foods. i want to make a shepherds pie with onions. lots and lots of onions. i loooove onions.

chicken breast stufffed with cheese, herbs garlic, or whatever, wrapped in bacon/parma ham and cooked in the oven for 25 mins

roast dinners

use leeks instead or is that cheating?

I've always wondered this too, Hunker!. Onions and garlic are essential ingredients in our house.

I don't actually want to stop eating onions, I was just puzzling

Misdee, if it was anyone but Peter, I'd tell you to just cook with them Buy a jar of pickled onions and eat them next to him on the sofa though

meat marinated in olive oil lemon juice herbs and garlic

cajun chicken/steak

(Could I have more in that post?!)

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i just start from the next step...so ifi am suposed to heat oil add onions then garlic i would just heat theoil then add garlic. Either that or choponions up really small

it is the tatse texture and smell of them he doesnt like.

drives me potty.

i often eat pickled onions next to him or make a cheese and onion toastie to annoy him [evil]

my dh and one of my ds detest onions. Like many people here, i too love an onion with erm...well almost everything.

so i fry the onion in olive oil. then put in another pan.

this leaves a little oniony taste but not the onions!! to add to whatever goes next in the pan. i then add the cooked onions at the end.

you can also leave the onion whole - say in a broth or soup or whatever - then slowly cook. taking the whole onion out but leaving the flavour.

with some meals grated onion is the trick. you can grate onion into the meal and no one will see it.

i can do this becuase no one is any wiser to my onion lies and i dont feel guilty about my onion deception!

PMSL - it's all coming out on this thread - you onion disguisers you

Dh and I detest onions! I usually justleave them out of cooking I don't use anything else instead. I can just about handle them if the rest of the dish is stronger than the onion like a curry or a chilli. I really hate it when people add onions to mash or cheese dishes, gross! [vomit icon]

love onion and their family
cant imagine not liking it..

use leeks instead much milder in flavour but still gives a nice taste

Onion powder stuff maybe.

Tip: whilst we are on onions. Put a bit of bread under your top lip (up the front of yer terth) when peeling onions. Stops tears even though you look like a gonk!

cant you just blizt them to within an inch of their life

just leave the onion out?

I don't particularly like onions, although I do lurve raw red onion (weird).

It's the texture of cooked onions I don't like, so I get around the textural issue by dicing the onion VERY finely. By the time the dish is finished the onion texture is completely undetectable, they almost melt into the sauce. The flavour is very subtle too, it just 'lifts' the other flavours rather than being a flavour of its own, iyswim.