Why add baking soda when frying onions: a useful kitchen trick
Fried onions are often added to soups, fried or stewed dishes, and cutlets. Frying onions is a simple process that anyone can handle. However, not everyone makes the vegetable look attractive and appetizing after cooking. SSPDaily tells about it.
Experienced cooks add baking soda when frying onions. And here's why. The fact is that baking soda helps onions not to overcook and preserve their texture. After all, it happens to everyone that a vegetable burns during heat treatment. Most often, this happens when cooks try to speed up the cooking time and increase the power.
Thanks to baking soda, the onion will retain a pleasant golden color and will also fry evenly.
How to add the ingredient correctly so that it is sufficient. First, heat the pan, pour in the oil and add the chopped onion. As soon as you notice that the vegetable begins to change color and becomes more transparent, it's time to add baking soda.
For 300 g of chopped onions, take 1/3 tsp of baking soda. Soda will not affect the taste of fried onions in any way. On the contrary, you will get a caramelized vegetable with an appetizing golden hue and incredible aroma.
