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Soaking uncooked onions and potatoes in dressing is a waste of time. They will not absorb the flavor of the dressing. You might as well just dice the potatoes, boil them to tender in salted water, saute the onions it a bit of oil/butter to soften, then you can toss them with the dressing. That will take about 10 minutes, tops. Counting the time to boil the rice, you could be done in about half an hour. You can add diced meat to the onions to saute and brown at the same time.