/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Just made crispy onions for congee

You can also just slice them and fry them with nothing added, then sprinkle salt on afterwards. Sometimes it's good to have pure onion taste.

Since making a grilled cheese with leftover fried onion oil, I've realised that neutral oils are simply a missed taste opportunity. One of the original southern fried chicken recipes recommends using lard that you've fried a stick of butter and a slice of ham in. What are your best frying fat recipes?

When I have leftover oil from making crispy onions, that's the best thing to fry sandwiches in.

Doesn't seem to get mentioned often in recipes, but do you do anything special to prepare your oil when you fry or deep fry things?

Chinese restaurants deep fry spices and aromats to makes batches of cooking oil, Edna Lewis' fried chicken recipe uses country ham and butter fried in lard, supposedly the best carnitas places benefit from using a rolling vat of lard.

>>7867408
To be fair, using a bit of butter and oil is pretty common. Greasiness is a matter of proportions, and flavouring your cooking fat makes a huge difference.

When I have it, I like to use leftover oil from frying onions to make cheese toasties.