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Fried onion

Name: Fried onion
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Israeli
Ingredients: 1 onion chopped; 2 tbsp olive oil

Onion fried in oil until translucent. Garlic, carrot and peppers are fried with it.

⏱ 10 min

1
Heat the olive oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
2
Add the onion and fry 5–8 minutes, stirring now and then, until the onion is soft and translucent and starts to turn golden at the edges. If it browns too fast, lower the heat.
⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.

71calories

0 gprotein

2 gcarbs

7 gfat

● protein 2%● carbs 12%● fat 86%

Per serving (36 g), of 4 servings

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Onion: measured in pieces: one ≈ 117 g · 40 kcal per 100 g · More about Onion →
Olive oil: measured in tbsp in this recipe: 1 tbsp = 14 g · 884 kcal per 100 g · More about Olive oil →

Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)

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Possible additions: onion · Celery · Leek · Garlic · Sliced garlic · Carrot · Red pepper · Green pepper · Hot pepper · More oil · Long frying until golden (8–10) · Zucchini · Mushrooms · Mushroom frying time (minutes) (5) · In the fat left in the pot (to the oil left in the wide pot) · Cumin seeds · Shallots · Ginger · Yellow pepper · Cutting the onion (into thin half-rings) · Chili with the garlic · Eggplant · Fresh tomatoes · Whole garlic cloves
Swaps: olive oil or vegetable oil or butter
Wording for the rest of the oil: the rest of the olive oil
Cue for long frying: the onion is soft and deep golden
Heat level: medium
Onion frying time (minutes): 5–8
Pepper frying time (minutes): 10
Carrot and zucchini frying time (minutes): 5
Seed frying time: about 20 seconds
Garlic frying time: about 30 seconds to 1 minute