yellow onion

Golden bulb vegetable

A yellow onion is the most common variety of onion, with golden-brown papery skin and pale yellow flesh.

It has a balanced flavor that becomes sweeter and mellower when cooked, making it the default choice for most recipes calling simply for "onion." Yellow onions are workhorses in the kitchen, equally suited to caramelizing, sautéing, or adding to soups and stews.

The recipe calls for one medium yellow onion, diced.

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pantry staple · Vidalia · papery · sauteing · low and slow · soffritto · caramelization · raita · dice · peel · pungent · mince · tear up · translucent · garlic · golden · sharp knife · savory

Categories
Opposites
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onion variety by color

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Purple-skinned pungent bulb vegetable

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Family

yellow, onion, onions, yellowish, yellowed, yellowing, yellowness, yellower, yellowest

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G