It is magical - though Kenji didn't invent it, that's been around in cookbooks since the dawn of cookbooks... kinda like some of his other 'discoveries' - but I digress. I do use the Baking Soda method when I want the onions to completely dissolve. I find that though they do brown faster, they also turn into a bit of a gloopy texture that isn't always what I'm looking for.
As a Swede with a taste for maple syrup from my mother being Canadian, that giant flipping *jug* of maple syrup is just... Here you have to pay *obscene* amounts of money for these tiny 100-150ml bottles of cheap, mass-produced, commercial stuff. I am *very* envious.
This is ONE OF THE SPECIAL gourmet items from Ontario, Quebec and America's New England states. For more than 30 years, we have purchased New York State Maple Syrup and Maple Sugar...and had it shipped to where we lived. Check it out: it may be much more affordable to source this way! My wife and I just had some on oatmeal pancakes AND MAPLE SYRUP with bacon this morning. I little goes a long way. Mix the maple sugar with decent creamery butter and freshly ground nutmeg and one has a great topping for sweet muffins.
This is one of the perks of living in Canada. Although the further west you go the more expensive maple syrup becomes. I will go out of my way to find the darkest maple syrup I can. It has a much more dynamic flavour and is less processed. Depending where you go, it's called No. 3 or Dark Amber. It can be quite potent but is great on pancakes or drizzled over ice cream, particularly Squozen Ice Cream.
Glen, I made this recipe for my mother right after you first released this video. It has since become a staple in the family, it's something she asks me to make for her every year. Thank you so much for sharing.
Since I didn't have maple syrup I just made a simple syrup using dark brown sugar, then used a bit of lemon juice with the white vinegar since I only had white vinegar lol. Used a splash of wine instead of the beer since I figured it was more for added liquid and flavor and it turned out amazing. Only had onion jam once before and was trying to replicate that to add to a steak sandwich, and this pretty much did it for me. Thank you sir.
Great video as always, my girlfriend was at Canada last week and she bring me up some maple syrup , and oh good it is amazing I never had tasted maple syrup before, greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Hey Glen, I have chef friends who make a caramelised onion jam. They add about 1/4th quantity in onions that have been smoked for a little while, and it really amps up the flavour nicely. Might not be relevant for a pizza, since you're woodfiring the pizza itself, but it really helps :)
I love making onion jam! I love it so much that I purchased a single burner just so I can make it outside on our back porch. We have an open kitchen (which I REALLY do not like) so the onion aroma just permeates the whole home and just sticks to everything. As much as I love onions, I don't want it sticking to me or my furniture. I make it in huge batches once a year and it works out well. Happy Jamming! and thanks so much for the video. It was very helpful!!❤️
Wow! Are you me? I'm Glen with one "n," and I love cooking. I also brew. Lastly, I have way too many onions and thought of an onion jam, so I'm thrilled to find this video! Cheers, dude!
I love 'sweet onion' compotes, made from Walla-Walla or Vidalia onions. Your video reminds me a a recipe from a famous chef ('good old what's his name?) that used two flavors of vinegar in two compotes: one was red balsamic, with good red wine and the other was white balsamic with riesling. The two were served with fresh salmon fillets. For me, that was an 'eye-opener.' I tweaked the recipe and added it to my files...and have not thought about it too much lately, until YOU brought it to mind here. We can get very fresh and fine Scottish Salmon. I NEED TO MAKE THIS AGAIN FOR THE FAMILY!
This is the amazing and interesting content I subscribed for :) Your channel has really grown into my daily life and I would not want to miss a single video, thank you for this!
I seldom write comments under cooking videos, but this one was well worth it... Made the onions today and they are MIND-BLOWINGLY DELICIOUS!!! I kid you not, the gastronomical experience from these is beyond... soooo sooo good!! I followed the recipe religiously (except for the beer vinegar... went with plain white wine vinegar all the way) and also added some orange juice when the onions were at two thirds of the way to become brown. Luckily being a fellow Canadian, I had easy access to grade A amber maple syrup. IMHO this would be amazing with pulled pork also!
I hope you don't mind if I download my favourite videos of yours. My husband and I are moving to the boonies to homestead and get away from the madness of city life. I hope to see a cookbook from you someday!
I've been making this lately alot, we've gotten so addicted to it that I've bulk made it today. We've been trying with different beers and so far, a porter seems to be our favourite
This looks amazing. I love onions and this looks like the best caramelized onion recipe I’ve seen. Oh, yeah and love your channel lots keep coming up with outstanding recipes
If you share my aversion to standing over onions and stirring seemingly forever, you can make them in a slow cooker on low. It allows for a much larger batch, you just have to do it on a day when you're home for 8 hours to stir occasionally. I'll definitely modify mine to include the maple syrup and beer.
I'd be happy to just dollop and slather it on a slice of toast. Looks like heaven. Is the beer essential, could it be substituted? I'm not big on beer flavor and the person I'd want to make it for is strongly opposed to any alcohol (beer, wine, or spirits) added to a dish (even though it'll cook out).
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking No need to substitute it for anything else? I guess not since you're trying to get a lot of the liquidness from water out. Cool, thanks.
Love the recipe! Glen, can you provide us with the specifics on the knife you used for chopping the onions? While you may have done this in an earlier video (I'm a relative newcomer), it does appear to be a hand forged high carbon blade. I make my own knives and find I am being influenced by Japanese cutlery.
There have been several times I've seen 'caramelized onions' in a recipe and thought to myself "how long are we bloody talking here?" There have been times when I got damn close though. The best onions I've yet to make, though nor caramelized, are the ones I make with my Chef Ramsay scrambled eggs. In his video he set mushrooms and tomatoes on a skillet and let cook while he made the eggs, I replaced the tomatoes with chopped onions. Set the burner to medium and let it do its thing while I make the eggs.
I would, but my Onion jam recipe is a bit different and a lot simpler, ingredient wise and no beer or wine vinegar … Only 1/3 cup balsamic vineger and 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar instead of his liquids plus only 2 tablespoons of maple syrup and 1/2 cup of brown sugar, also 2 tablespoons of butter instead of olive oil and 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 teaspoon of cardamom ( can leave out if you do not like cardamom). , 1 tsp salt, 8 cups of yellow onions. …Low and slow carmalize onions with butter 45 minutes to an hour or so, then add all other ingredients, the on simmer to low, reduce to really thicken, makes under 2 cups all together and you can water bath can in 4 oz canning jars or canning jelly type jars for 10 minutes😊edited to add it last a long enough time only in the fridge, as it gets eaten quickly ( or the neighbor steals a jar or two😂.. I have been wondering about freezing it as well, but never tried, my family loves it to much❤
Would you please make a video showing how to make an authentic French Canadian poutine at home? There are just too many weird versions on the internet.
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking Hello from India. Unfortunately, I haven't found maple syrup in local market. Even if I find something, it won't be cheap. Thanks for the awesome recipe, will try over the weekend.
Lyles Golden Syrup is an easy to find, tasty sweetener for Europeans. Glen is correct: add money for shipping and the 'Real Ontario/Quebec Maple Syrup' can be sent to your doorstep.
So, my girlfriend makes a calzone pizza wich her parents used to make. I dnt know if its an old local italian dish, but she uses onion and parmesan. So if you wanna try a calzone then this could be im the street of your tastebuds.
That amount of maple syrup (1/2 cup) would cost about CA$3 here in Australia. We have "maple flavoured syrup" which is just sugar syrup with added colour and flavour. A long way from real M.S. One day I'll get to Canada and I will O.D. on the real stuff!
daaaamnnnn...maple syrup is so expensive for me i cant ever imagine having a giant jug of syrup like that...annnd i bet that syrup is sooo much better than anything i could buy at the store.....where can you get such a giant amount without taking out a loan?
@@GlenAndFriendsCooking lol yeaaa i gotcha.. Was stuck in My local mind frame. Where i live now i have to depend on the grocery market....i grew up in new hampshire and we used to be able to tap some maple trees and make our own.
A part of me wants to combine this recipe with those whiskey whipped sweet potatoes you guys did half a year ago. I'll let you know how it tastes once I've done it.
Look at that big jug of real maple syrup, in here you may be robbed if you walked in the street with such a jug, this thing costs a fortune outside canada lol
i understand slow cooking to reduce water content, but that is a waste of electricity and time, not really practical for those on a tight eletric bill budget , what i do is i blend the onions to a paste then with a silicone spatula i work through it with a strainer, and see all the onion juice that you get that you could use for something else like soup 2 Esdras 2 :31 -100 ;;;;;;;
Interesting... I don't see one instance of where I spelled it incorrectly. I don't even see one instance of where I used the American version with a 'z'. Unless of course you are making fun and bullying me for my Canadian accent? Perhaps you don't realise that English has many regional dialects?
Glen & Friends Cooking one of the classic pronunciation battles here. In the end it doesn’t matter, every dialect has a ton of words they ‘mispronounce’. Over the course of time some of those mispronunciations will become the accepted, correct forms of the word. others will morph over time as they move with migration and mix between cultures and other languages. Analyze your own dialect and you will find it filled with ‘mistakes’
I’m sorry to complain because this recipe looks very good but how am I supposed to follow and make this when two ingredients are impossible to get here in Northern California which are your homemade beer and dark Canadian maple syrup? Plus you offer no substitutes. I’m disappointed as this is the best of the onion jam videos on RU-vid
Sorry about that - any Mexican lager for the beer. But there is no substitute for Maple Syrup... Though sorghum or fancy molasses would bring a nice flavour.