Topic: make your own onion powder

[surge]

hi
seen this on the web.

Tired of forking over big bucks for a little jar of onion powder? Here's how to make it yourself and save:

 ;D

Ingredients:

    * Onions

Preparation:

1. Peel and finely chop your onions.

2. Then, spread the onion pieces out on a tray and heat in a 150 degree oven or in a food dehydrator until dry.

Tip: The onions are dry when you can easily crumble the chopped pieces in your hand.

3. Allow the onions to cool. Then, grind with a coffee grinder, spice mill, food processor or mortar and pestle until you reach your desired consistency.

4. Store your finished onion powder in an air-tight container in a cool, dry spot or freeze.

[pforkes]

"150 degrees"

Is this fahrenheit or centigrade?

[JerryM]

surge,

sounds incredibly easy and a real find.

i use onion powder quite a lot in non curry and will give it a try.

ps the 150 will be centigrade

[Stephen Lindsay]

good call surge, I take it this method of drying onions can also make crispy onion pieces, the like of which are put in sandwiches with chicken, mayo etc?

[Cory Ander]

I take it this method of drying onions can also make crispy onion pieces

If you're after brown, crispy onions (i.e. onion tarka), I think you'd fry them, slowly, in a little oil, until brown and crispy SL.

[Stephen Lindsay]

If you're after brown, crispy onions (i.e. onion tarka), I think you'd fry them, slowly, in a little oil, until brown and crispy SL.

I love onion tarka CA and especially with daal but that's not what I meant CA. I was referring to the little jars of crispy onion that you can buy in ASDA for putting on sandwiches.

Anyway I did some tonight (see pic above) and they are going on my sandwiches with chicken and mayo for lunch tomorrow.

What this has to do with BIR I do not know, but I think the point was they can be crumbled into powder. Well I can tell you that these onions are dry, crumbly and intensly flavoured and more than capable of becoming powder.

Thanks surge and for pforkes' info they oven as set at 150c and they took a while, maybe an hour or so.

[surge]

Hi guys

The idea was for onion powder for your curries but if you want to make sardies for your lunch then thats another good use i suppose, haha and yes it takes about a hour to get them to a dry condition for when ready to crush into powder also remember to flip them over at the half way stage

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[joshallen2k]

Is there a benefit of making your own onion powder vs buying from the supermarket?

Its pretty cheap...