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.
A dish of Belarusian cuisine, which has many variations. I met this recipe a long time ago, even in some printed publication. I have cooked such magicians many times, and it always turns out delicious. I am happy to share this recipe with you.
Autumn has begun and, accordingly, I want something salty. So I decided to make this salad, especially since in the spring I made large stocks of pickled mushrooms.
Aspic pie – five minutes. If you are not friends with the dough or simply do not have time to stand in the kitchen – this pie is like a rescue stick. 7-10 minutes of your work and your oven or slow cooker will do the rest for you.
My family has a rather complicated relationship with soups, since my son recognizes only 3 of them: borscht, chicken soup with homemade noodles and this one with beans on pork ribs with porcini mushrooms. Therefore, I rarely cook soups, only if I am asked. Today is just such a case, when I asked what we were going to cook today, the family ordered soup. Well, soup, so soup)) That’s why I decided to share the recipe with you, dear cooks. The soup turns out to be thick and rich, with a rich taste of porcini mushrooms.
Here is such a pide prepared in our Turkish hotel. This tortilla with meat was served for lunch and dinner, with soup, meat, salad, and the children ate just like that. I liked this dish so much that I asked for a recipe and even attended a personal master class with the chef of our hotel. This is a real recipe for Turkish pide – thin crispy dough, spicy, juicy, meat filling, without cheese, eggs and milk – this is not pizza!