What to cook with onion

1,996 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use onion. 25 of them are built around it. It turns up most in American, Indian and Mexican recipes.

recipes use it
1,996
are built around it
25
median total time
1 hr
ready in 30 minutes or less
299

Recipes built around onion

With onion, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with onion

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with onion, out of 1,996 recipes.

  • Garlic65% of recipes
  • Olive oil33% of recipes
  • Tomato28% of recipes
  • Cumin25% of recipes
  • Carrot20% of recipes
  • Bay leaf19% of recipes
  • Parsley20% of recipes
  • Turmeric17% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 1,493 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1. Half of them fall between 1.

Where onion shows up

Cuisines

  • American124
  • Indian115
  • Mexican96
  • African61

Courses

  • Dinner988
  • Side247
  • Appetizer153

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.