Like every cheap individual, I like garlic bread, however it isn’t the one allium-based bread you can also make and luxuriate in. Very similar to their cbeloved cousin, onions could be remodeled right into a candy and savory, irresistible bread topping. All you want is butter, onions, warmth, and time.
Caramelized onion bread delivers precisely what’s promised, a wholesome does of candy, jammy onion taste on a chunk of your favourite bread (I used challah). It’s rather a lot like garlic bread, solely it tastes like candy and savory onion dip, as an alternative of candy and pungent garlic. You possibly can eat it alongside spaghetti, identical to you’d garlic bread, or you possibly can eat a number of items all by themselves, which is what I simply did.
To make caramelized onion bread, you want two small onions, a stick of butter, and a few salt and monosodium glutamate. The MSG is technically non-compulsory, nevertheless it amplifies the umami within the onions. You can too get cheese concerned, however I urge you to take pleasure in this bread in its easiest type earlier than doing so. Let the onions shine. Allow them to be their deeply candy and satisfying selves, and let your self take pleasure in this straightforward pleasure earlier than you begin in with the lily gilding.
Caramelized Onion Bread
Elements:
- 1 stick butter (salted or unsalted)
- 2 small onions, any coloration
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 teaspoon desk salt or effective sea salt
- Large pinch of MSG
- Bread of your selection, reduce into thick slices
Take a stick of butter out of the fridge and let if come to room temperature (it ought to supply no resistance when poked). Slice your onions as thinly as you possibly can. Warmth oil in a big pan over low warmth (as little as your range will go). Add the onions and salt, then give all the pieces a stir to coat the onions with oil. Depart the onion alone to caramelize for not less than an hour. Don’t enhance the warmth to hurry issues up: This can end in crispy, fried onions, and that’s not what we’re going for.
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Once the onions are caramelized, scrape them out of the pan and let them cool. Combine them with the butter and MSG using a food processor, standard blender, or immersion blender. Whirr until you have a fairly smooth butter with little caramelized onion bits.
Grab a thick slice of bread and lightly toast it, then spread a thick layer of onion butter on top and return it to the toaster oven (or broiler, or air fryer). Toast until the little onion bits take on a touch of darkness on their tips. Eat immediately.
