Trick to Hide Onions from Picky Eaters

Is that an onion??? I don’t like onions! Does that sound familiar? I’m going to share my trick to hide onions from the pickiest eaters and keenist eyes at the dinner table. Your picky eater will have no idea, just how much they actually do LOVE onions.

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Picky Eaters Come in All Sizes

Most of you are probably assuming that I’ve got a picky toddler on my hands, but that is not the case at all. The picky eater at my house is, in fact, my husband. In the first few months of marriage, I quickly discovered that he hated onions. He could spot them in any dish and would not eat anything that could possibly be an onion. I myself used to be that picky of an eater, but discovered that I had been tricked into eating onions my entire life.

I did what any reasonable young wife would do and called up the women in my family to find out the trick for myself. My mom told me that she chopped them up into small pieces before putting them in the dish. Afterwards, she hid the evidence, so that any passerbys wouldn’t see onions in the kitchen. My Mama Susie let me in on a little secret that she had used on her picky eater, my Uncle Bobo. She would put the onion in a blender before putting it into the dish. If the dish would not hide the pieces well, then she would use onion powder.

Unfortunately, my husband had the taste buds of a fine French chef. He could taste onion in just about anything. I had to come up with a new plan.

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The Trick to Hide Onions!

So what is the trick to hide onions picky eaters?

Despite his incredible, onion-sensing taste buds, I finally found a way to hide onions. First, I cut the onion into big chunks. Then, I put one chunk of onion in the Slap Chop and slap the heck out of it. Side note: If you have some built up tension, stress, or anger chopping the onion in this way will soon relieve it. Once all of the chunks have been slapped until they look like onion goop, it’s time to sauté them. Heat up a little bit of olive oil in a skillet. Toss in the onion and stir continuously so it doesn’t stick. If the onions are going into meat, soups, or casseroles, then I just cook them long enough to get soft. Once the onions are pulverized and sauteed, they can be mixed into whatever dish you are making. If I’m making my favorite dish, fried potatoes and onions, then I let them caramelize.

My husband has eaten a bowl full of fried potatoes and onions without ever even noticing an onion. When he finished I asked him for the onions he had surely picked out. He looked at me like a deer in the headlights. He had eaten the entire bowl and never saw, tasted, or suspected that there was even an onion in his dinner. When they are pulverized and cooked, onions are invisible and unidentifiable to even the pickiest eater.

Just make sure you hide the evidence before anybody spies the evidence in the kitchen!