Speed Up Caramelized Onions

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Hot Tips From Food Network Kitchens’ Katherine Alford:

Caramelizing onions can take a while, but adding a big pinch of sugar will make them brown faster. The extra sugar caramelizes along with the onions' natural sugars, helping the onions get brown in a hurry. We used this shortcut for the burger topping in Food Network Magazine's French Onion Burgers.

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