Anna Jones’s recipes for baked onions and crispy shallots

Cheap, readily available and infinitely adaptable, onions are the starting point for a multitude of dishes. But buttered and baked or fried to a crisp, the humble onion is more than able to steal the showOnions are arguably the stars of the kitchen. They are cheap, readily available and crucial for laying the foundations of so many dishes, across countless cooking cultures.Few good dishes I cook start without an onion, and I love how they can be taken to both ends of the flavour spectrum, from b