Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions | Simple Nourished Living (2024)

WW Recipe of the Day: Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions

The inspiration for these delicious slow cooker caramelized onions comes from the Cafe Zupas cookbook.

Are you familiar with Cafe Zupas?

You may not be because they only have locations in Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin and Nevada right now.

I'm lucky to live only a few miles from their Phoenix location.

I fell in love with their house made soups, salads, sandwiches and desserts after my friend, Beth, turned me on to them.

So, needless to say I was thrilled when a copy of their Blogger's Annual Cookbook with a gift card showed up in my mailbox recently 🙂

A collection of the best fresh and delicious recipes from Cafe Zupa's bloggers, organized by season, I identified all kinds of recipes I can't wait to try.

Recipe's I've tagged include:

• Honey Lemon Pound Cake with Fresh Strawberries
• Greek Pasta Salad
• A Better Tin Foil Dinner
• Roasted Butternut Squash Salad

But right now I was focused on finding a recipe I could make work in the slow cooker and found exactly what I was looking for on page 54 - Caramelized Onions - which are best when cooked low and slow.

The Skinny on Slow Cooked Caramelized Onions

I've been know to burn onions when trying to caramelize them on the stove.

But, it's really hard to overcook onions in the slow cooker.

I cooked a large batch in my 6-Quart slow cooker (affiliate link) overnight.

In the morning I cooked them a little longer with the lid ajar, allowing most of the liquid to evaporate.

So far I've used these sweet, delicious low fat slow cooker caramelized onions on a ham and Swiss cheese flatbread and with grilled asparagus, mushrooms and pesto in a wrap.

They're a great way to add delicious flavor with minimal calories and points. And are Weight Watchers Simply Filling too.

More Delicious Ways to Use Slow Cooker Caramelized Onions:

• tossed with pasta
• as a pizza topping
• in an omelet
• on a burger or sandwich
• in a wrap
• on a baked potato
• on top of grilled meat or fish
• stirred into soup or dip

The extras can be stored in the refrigerator for several days or portioned out for the freezer.

How Many Calories and WW Points in these Caramelized Onions?

According to my calculations, each generous ¼-cup serving has just 28 calories and:

1 *SmartPoints (Green plan)
1 *SmartPoints (Blue plan)
1 *SmartPoints (Purple plan)
1 *PointsPlus (Old plan)

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Recipe source: Cafe Zupas Blogger's Annual Cookbook

*Points® calculated by WW. *PointsPlus® and SmartPoints® calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc. All recipe ingredients except optional items included in determining nutritional estimates. SmartPoints® values calculated WITHOUT each plan's ZeroPoint Foods (Green plan, Blue plan, Purple plan) using the WW Recipe Builder.

If you like this recipe for crock pot caramelized onions you might also like:

• Slow Cooker Roasted Garlic
• Slow Cooker French Onion Meatballs
• Slow Cooker Beefy French Onion Soup

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