How long to bake onions: cooking options

If you plan to use baked onions for food, the best option would be to bake in an oven (roasting) cabinet, and you can use the vegetable in its pure form, cook it with sauce, with meat, poultry, fish or other vegetables.

Depending on the recipe, recommendations for how long to bake the onions vary: 30-35 minutes for whole onions with butter, sea salt and thyme (Jami Oliver variant), up to an hour for unpeeled vegetable in quarters using foil.

For baking in a pan, the onion is usually disassembled into hemispheres. Having previously cut in half, the layers are separated and each layer is laid out separately, like a cup turned upside down to dry. Under these conditions, the vegetable is baked much faster than the whole form. Such “cups” are baked in a dry frying pan under a lid for 10-15 minutes until transparent.

It is worth noting that even those who cannot stand the onion taste willingly eat such dishes: when cooking, the taste and characteristic smell disappear, especially if spices are used during baking.