Making & Storing Minced Onions

A while back, my mother dehydrated onions to gift to our family. She put them in a gallon size plastic Ziploc and gave them to us. My husband recently bought me a jar vacuum sealer, so I decided to move the onions to a glass container and vacuum seal them to lengthen their shelf life.

When my mom dehydrated the onions, she left them in rings to cut down on the work required to prepare them for dehydration. This is my preferred method as well, but I haven't bothered to do anything else with them so each time we have used them, I had to mince them. Since I was planning to vacuum seal them, I knew I could store more and save myself some time later down the road if I turned them all into minced onions prior to vacuum sealing them.

I took the dehydrated onion rings and put them in our food processor. 


I blended them for a couple of minutes, and voila - minced onions!


Once I had a full jar, I folded a paper towel over the top of minced onions as a precaution. Since I had never used a vacuum sealer, I didn't want any fine particles from the minced onions to accidentally get pulled into the vacuum sealer and potentially ruin it.


I then added a lid and fitted the vacuum sealer over it. It took about one minute to run a full cycle.


The end result was a vacuum sealed jar full of minced onions!


I liked the vacuum sealing process so much that over the next few days I moved most of my bulk herbs into jars and vacuum sealed them for longer storage. Not only are they better prepped for storage, but my herbs are much more organized!

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