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20+ Recipes With Caramelized Onions & Best Ways to Use Them

If you love caramelized onions, you’ll be delighted with the 20 recipes using caramelized onions that are linked below. Each one of the dishes is enhanced by the sweet, mellow flavor of caramelized onions.

Most people make caramelized onions in batches, because it takes about an hour to cook them. With large batches, sometimes it’s easy to run out of creative uses for caramelized onions.

There are some recipes that can’t exist without them, like French onion soup and Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. However, there are a lot of other ways to use caramelized onions too!

You can easily incorporate them into pizzas, pastas, omelettes and sandwiches. They’re also a delicious addition to burgers and a perfectly cooked steak

The amount of flavor in the recipes with caramelized onions below makes the time spent cooking the onions so worthwhile! 

A collage of two different recipe using caramelized onions, with a chori pollo recipe on the left, and an Italian noodle dish on the right, with a text overlay above them.

20 Recipes With Caramelized Onions & The Best Ways to Use Them

Looking for some tasty uses for caramelized onions? You're in luck!

Below are 20 recipes using caramelized onions. Some are comfort food classics, while others use caramelized onions to elevate weeknight dinners.

Similar to roasting garlic, caramelizing onions bring out a natural sweetness in the onions. It changes their sharp onion flavor into a sweeter, more mellow flavor.

In addition to the 20 dishes above, you can get creative and substitute caramelized onions for raw ones in any dish where you’d like a sweeter flavor. Let us know in the comments your favorite way to enjoy caramelized onions.

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A collage of two recipes with caramelized onions with a text overlay in the middle, where the top image is of a mild Italian sausage with drunken noodles, and the bottom photo is of Chori pollo with rice.

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A collage of six recipes with caramelized onions, and a text overlay that says 10 delicious ways to use caramelized onions. The recipe photos are (starting in the top left going clockwise) warm crab dip with caramelized onions, a gluten free chori pollo, a burger topped with caramelized onions, a pizza with arugula on top, a drunken Italian noodle dish and a grilled cheese with caramelized onions and bacon.

Admin note: This post sharing uses for caramelized onions first appeared on the blog in July of 2017. It has been updated with new recipes using caramelized onions, and a video showing how to make them for you to enjoy.

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