online culinary arts school - onion garnish tutorial
Welcome back to another cooking video, I’m
Chef Devaux and today I’m going to teach
you how to make one of these into a beautiful
garnish.
Let’s get going!
Okay, so we begin with a red onion. I’ve
taken off one layer as you can see to make
it a bit more smooth and clean. Then I take
a knife and place it on top of it in the middle,
and then place your finger where the end of
the onion is and this will indicate where
the halfway mark is so you don’t stab yourself
on the other side. Just press your knife into
it at a 45-degree angle and then you connect
and you create a zigzag pattern going all
the way around.
Here you can see it more clearly, you just
press your knife in and then wherever the
last cut was, at a 45-degree angle, you go
in again and you just continue this zigzag
pattern all the way around.
The only thing you really need to know is
that when you press it in you want to pull
the knife upwards and pressing the tip down
so it creates a rectangular cut into it, so
it joins up all the cuts on the interior of
the onion.
Alright, so you just continue cutting all
the way around until the zigzag patterns meet
and then the onion should just come apart,
just like this, and then you’ve got these
beautiful two halves of an onion which on
their own are mesmerizing already.
Okay, so I’m just going to put one on the
side because I don’t need it for now, and
I’m going to cut the bottom off this onion.
Once you’ve done that you want to start
separating the layers of the onion. Be very
careful not to damage or break them.
You start off with the first outer one, once
you’ve got it off you just place it down
on the cutting board, just like this, and
then you start working on the next one—very
careful. This is a little bit tedious sometimes
but it’s quite simple.
Once you’ve removed the second one you just
want to lay it inside the one you removed
before. You want to make sure that wherever
there was a “V” from the one before, there’s
a little point now, and you just continue
this pattern all the way to the core. Just
take off the next layer and just align it
so it’s wherever the “V” was, there’s
a point now. You just continuously do this
until you can’t remove any more layers from
your onion.
I think this is the last one I can remove,
so I’m just going to fit that one in. Now
I’m just going to take the core component
and fit that one inside because I can’t
separate any more—there we go.
Now this is already a beautiful garnish but
it’s a little bit flat, so I’m going to
take the bottom of the onion which has a curve
in I and I’m going to lay the garnish on
top and then press it down. That just creates
a much more 3D complete effect.
Voila!
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