Diced Onions

If you’re not sure how to properly chop, dice and mince, we’re here to help! Some terms can be confusing and unfamiliar if you’ve never cooked before. This is the easiest way I have found to dice an onion.

a whole onion on a cutting board next to a kitchen knife

Step 1: Begin with a clean onion (outer papery layers removed), a cutting board, and a sharp knife.

Step 2: Carefully hold the onion keeping your fingers clear of the knife and cut all the way through from the root to the tip.

A knife slicing the top off of the onion

Step 3: Cut the tip off each half, but leave the root in tact.

Step 4: Make slices in one half of the onion almost all the way to the root. You can make them as wide or as narrow as you need for your recipe. A large dice will be a little under an inch and small dice could be as narrow as a ¼ inch. Any smaller and it would be considered minced.

a knife making perpendicular slices in an onion

Step 5: Turn the onion and slice again, intersecting the first cut. Once again, you can make your dice smaller or larger by spacing out your slices. I was using this onion to make lumpia and needed a smaller dice.

Step 6: Repeat with other half if needed.

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