Caramelized onion dip, aka "crack dip." © Ryan Schierling |
This is not a subject lightly traversed in this household.
Your mother might tell you to get a dry packet of Knorr's or Lipton Onion Soup Mix and stir it up with some sour cream and mayonnaise, and I would promptly tell your mother to get bent.
That's not onion dip. Nor are the tubs of "Onion Dip" or "French Onion Dip" or "Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil Whipped With Dehydrated Onion Pieces" next to the sour cream and margarine products at your local grocer. They are simulacrum. Amalgamations. Abominations. (And I hold deep-seated reservations.)
This onion dip is three ingredients.
It sounds easy. Too easy. But it's not. It takes 24 hours to make, and do not take those 24 hours lightly.