Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions
Earlier this week, I shared with you my tutorial on how to make caramelized onions the traditional way. On the stove. Low and slow. With 40 minutes of basically constant stirring. It’s the way that people have been making caramelized onions forever and ever, and with good reason. The technique will yield you some crazy delicious onions.
But.
Awhile back, I heard a little “rumor” (ok, I saw something on Pinterest) about the possibility of making caramelized onions in the slow cooker, and I immediately had to investigate. The idea seemed too simple. Just throw onions and butter in the slow cooker and let them cook for hours and hours and hours, without having to babysit the crock pot and stir them every few minutes, and go through the process of deglazing the pan?!? Nope, I figured there was no way it could work, or that those onions would have the same delicious flavor of their stovetop counterparts. No way.
But I’m here to tell you today — yes way.
My brilliant slow cooker once again proved to me that it can do just about anything. And I have been making batch after batch of heavenly slow cooker caramelized onions ever since. And if you love caramelized onions, you absolutely need to try this too.
