Onions in cooking are used in raw, boiled, fried, pickled and salted types. Although to preserve all the useful properties, minimal thermal exposure is recommended. Onions can be both a flavor seasoning for the main dish (and it is combined with meat, fish, rice, potatoes, flour products, cottage cheese, and other vegetables), and the basis of the recipe. Many national cuisines have their own “branded” culinary products, in which onions can be called a key ingredient: French onion soup, British onion pie, etc. There are some culinary tricks that will allow you to cook this product (or a dish based on it) as tasty as possible: If you add a little granulated sugar to the oil during frying, the onions will brown better. So that the chopped onion does not burn during sauteing, before sending it to the frying pan, you should roll the “straw” in flour. Then it will simply acquire a reddish hue. Onions can be added to minced meat not only to improve the taste, but also to extend the shelf life of the meat part. To get rid of onion bitterness in the manufacture of salads, raw onions are slightly scalded with boiling water, and hands and knife are smeared with wet salt.
When choosing onions, preference should be given to dense clean heads, without damage, holes and stains. The sweetness-bitterness of a vegetable depends not only on the variety, but also on the length of daylight in the place of cultivation (southern onions are considered sweeter), the mineral content of the soil, the softness of the climate, the abundance of precipitation, etc. For example, with a large amount of annual precipitation, sulfur is actively washed out of the soil, which creates prerequisites for growing a sweeter vegetable. However, in general, it is believed that white varieties have a stronger flavor and are better suited for filling pies, red and purple ones have a sweet taste and are well combined in salads and marinades, and the Spanish variety is softer and sweeter, as well as onions with yellow–brown husks are better suited for frying.
Very tasty and spicy snack. It is perfect for meat dishes and an addition to the side dish, and kebabs will not do without it. It is prepared simply and quickly, disappears from the table instantly.
If you are in Greece, be sure to visit the street markets – Laiki (folk), where you can see and buy the freshest fruits and vegetables, seafood and fish, honey, olives, olives and other Goodies. There are more than 50 such bazaars every week, only in Athens. So I went to my weekly market on the next street and thought I’d buy some fruit… yeah, scored full kurozu (special truck)! And how to resist this riot of colors and flavors! Inspired by shopping, I decided-today in the menu Gemista! And how I cook it, come visit and find out!
I offer you a recipe for pita burgers, which we will bake ourselves. Thanks to the minced chicken fillet and soft cheese, our dish turns out very juicy and with a delicate taste.
I offer you another risotto with mushrooms. With this simple set of products (rice and mushrooms), it is difficult to invent something new. And yet each of the recipes presented on the site differs in some way.
There are many recipes for eggplant caviar, and each of them is good in its own way. I share with you one of these options. Delicious bread, cold eggplant caviar and hot boiled new potatoes-a song, not a food!
