Cooking with Onions

Onion can be put into 99% of dishes.

>>8601228
You can make curry if you got the spices, it can be very cheap and you can combine it with any meat, rice, etc

>However, I've never eaten them outside of onion rings
wat

Other than perhaps potatoes, they're the most universally applicable and consumed vegetable on the planet.

Add them to any meat dish for flavour. Combine with carrots and celery for mirepoix which is a vegetable stock and flavour foundation for a TON of dishes. Combine with garlic and butter to eat them on their own, or with liver or kidney and beans and/or tomato combinations for stewy offal etc

Just about any savoury dish is improved with onions.

Onions are meant for flavor and has very little nutritional value. Google foods that have high calorie per dollar value and focus on that as your main staples. Then add vegetables, including onions, to fill out the nutritional profile.

>>8601245
I put them in my brownies

Onions are nearly never eaten 'alone'. Their taste is a little too strong for that, but they are used to enhance taste of mostly everything.

A trivial easy, fast, cheap dish for the poorfags:

get the cheapest sausage you can. (there's really hardly any benefit going with any better brands for this dish) Slice into thin slices. Put in a skillet, put on small to medium heat. The sausage, if cheap enough, will release enough fat that you don't even need any oil.

Get onions, about twice as much by weight as the sausage. Peel, slice into half-rings. Add to the sausage, turn heat to medium-high. Sprinkle with salt generously, stir until onion is between glassy and brownish. Eat with plain bread, just a slice of bread in one hand, fork in the other.

It's very tasty, dirt cheap and very fast and easy to make, plus quite nutritious. Onion loses a lot of nutrients to searing, but the sheer amount of it in the dish makes up for that.

>>8601228
I seriously don't understand how some people get this far in life and survive

Why hasn't anyone mentioned French onion soup? Anyway, onions are usually used as an ingredient or garnish. Rarely the star of the dish

>>8601228
You know what's also cheap? Potatoes. I like to grate up some potatoes and onions and make myself fritters.

> I've never eaten them outside of onion rings

This makes me uncomfortable.

>>8601339

This. Potatoes are more filling anyway.

>>8601228
Onions aren't for eating, they're a fashion accessory

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>>8601352

That's garlic you fool!

>>8601348
Yes, but alone they are bland. Some onion goes a long way to improve their taste. A token amount of meat (say, small bits of bacon or fried sausage) is another extra that moves potatoes a class up taste-wise.

Also learn to like rice and pasta. About as cheap, take some more effort to make them tasty in 'savory' version, but you can get some filling, dirt-cheap sweet dishes out of them easily. Apple, small amounts of sugar. cinnamon, cream, vanilla sugar - and you have a delicious dish based on rice or pasta on the cheap.

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If you cook onions with a vegan, they gain control of your soul. Ancient natural magics.

Op, get a hotplate for a pan, silly.

You can find localonions that grow themselves in your yard fyttitwfyi

Though you could get by with a toaster oven, watch a shitton of to YouTube toasteroven vids and report back when you can feed yourself like a big boy or girl