brown onion

Soup base bulb

A brown onion is the common all-purpose cooking onion with papery golden-brown skin and pungent white flesh.

It's the default onion in most recipes—when a recipe calls simply for "onion," this is usually what's meant.

The flavor mellows and sweetens with cooking: Caramelize the brown onions slowly over low heat.

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cooking · meal prep · bulbous · dicing · layers · sautéing · pungent · roasting · edible · storage · flavoring · soffritto · braising · chopping · cultivar · soup base · skin · frying

Opposites
onion variety/type

brown onionsweet onion

Vidalia onion · spring onion · green onion · scallion · white onion

allium family members

brown oniongarlic

Pungent culinary bulb

leek · chive · scallion · ramp · elephant garlic

Family

brown, onion, browns, browned, browning, brownish, brownness, onions, oniony

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G