Homemade Onion Powder
Homemade Onion Powder is not as hard to make as you might think. It also lasts an amazingly long time. Today I am going to break it down in a few easy steps for you.
Peel your Onions
When I peel a ton of onions for homemade onion powder, I always put them in water. It helps with the tear inducing issues that come from slicing onions. Does it work? I’d like to think so. It could also be all in my head.
Slice your Onions
I set out to slice these onions for my onion powder in the food processor. They were more like pulverized. I must have used the wrong blade. I really wanted dehydrated slices…. Like these below….
…the last time I dehydrated onions. Alas, that is not what I got. It was more of a mush but was totally usable with a tray liner
So, instead of sliced onions I got this mush. I set the dehydrator in hopes to still be able to use the onions.
It worked out fine. I used our coffee grinder (I use this one) to make the powder.
For whatever reason they turned a pinkish color after being in the dehydrator.(I use this dehydrator)
Not sure why, but thankfully didn’t affect the taste.
Below is what 9 trays of dehydrated onion mush turned homemade onion powder looks like.
I store the onion powder in a jar that I repurposed.
You can see the line of where the onions that were pinkish compared to the other onions.
Love knowing where my onion powder came from and SO much cheaper than buying it at the grocery store.
The jar on the left is dried onion that I didn’t run through the coffee grinder. I wish I had saved a bit more out for this purpose.
Did you know you can make homemade garlic powder too?
**********************************************************
Thank you for using affiliate links and such.
It doesn’t cost you extra to use them, so thank you.
Sometimes I get free stuff to review.
I promise you I will always be honest with my opinion
of any product regardless of if I were paid in addition
to receiving the free product. You can trust me.
**********************************************************
Do you need Essential Oils of your own?
You can send me an e-mail and I will personally assist
you in choosing the best oils to fit your needs.
**********************************************************
Please use discretion if using oils that are not CPTG oils.
I am not a doctor and can not diagnose or treat what ails ya.
I can just give my advice. Essential Oils have yet to be
approved by the FDA.
**********************************************************
I have dehydrated many many things,but I haven’t done this….thank you for the information on how to do it. 🙂 Thank you.