How To Make Caramelized Onions In Your Crockpot

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The Easy Overnight Way In Your Crockpot No Watching No Stirring

Never underestimate the depth of flavor caramelized onions can add to many dishes. However, no one can deny that the process takes time. It’s a labor of love. It’s not something you can rush, so it’s not something impatient people like me want to do when mealtime looms. I wouldn’t say I like standing around and stirring, stirring. Maybe you do.

When onions caramelize through long, slow cooking, their natural sugars come out, and the onions transform into beautiful, sweet, brown, tender shreds of deliciousness. We don’t want to miss out on that, do we?

Great news! Let your crockpot do the work overnight while you sleep. There’s no watching and no stirring! Better news! You can make a big batch and freeze them to use for another day! It will speed up weeknight meal preparation without missing out on the magic only caramelized onions can bring to a dish.

If you don’t know how fabulous caramelized onions taste or wonder what to do with them, here’s a great article from the onion people themselves, The National Onion Association, “NOA,” Seven Ways To Use Caramelized Onions.

How To Wake Up To A Crockpot Full Of Delicious Caramelized Onions

Vidalia onions are ideal for caramelized onions, but any sweet onion will work. If you can’t get sweet onions, add about two tablespoons of brown sugar to the crockpot.

Peel the onions and cut them into thin wedges to make half-moon pieces.

Add some butter.

Add some Worcestershire sauce, salt, and pepper.

Stir them a time or two again if you’re around, but if you don’t, it still works. After twelve hours, the onions transform into sweet, tender, brown onions that add a special kind of magic to almost any dish.

You are still golden if you let them cook for up to fourteen hours. They will be a little darker, and there will be less liquid, but they’ll be delicious.

You can use these onions immediately or cool them and keep them in the refrigerator for a week. For longer storage, please put them in freezer bags or containers and freeze them to use later. Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman, suggests freezing them in silicone ice cube trays so you can pop out a few to add to casseroles, soups, frittatas, pizzas, or omelets! That sounds like a great idea!

I love it when I find a time and labor-saving method for doing things in the kitchen. We are all in a hurry and try to pack so much into every day of our life. That’s what’s great about an idea like this. You can spend a few minutes while you prepare dinner or tidy up the kitchen and create something that will enhance the flavor of several upcoming meals. That’s a kitchen win!

If you are a gardener and end up with a bumper crop of onions, you can preserve them this way; you will save lots of space in the pantry and have less spoilage by preparing some of the onions this way.

We love to find ways to use and preserve garden produce. Here are some of our most popular posts on the subject. How To Freeze Corn, How To Freeze Peppers, Anything Goes Refrigerator Pickles, Quick Pickled Vidalia Onions, Dilly Pickled Green Beans.

Are you an avid gardener or a farmer’s market produce enthusiast like me? Do you have any tips and tricks for getting the most out of your garden or recipes for pickles or jam you’d like to share? We’d love to hear from you, and we’d love it even more if you would share pictures!

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