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.
Cucumbers are loved by almost everyone. Canned, pickled, in salads and simply sliced crispy cucumbers are always in place. I present you a simple way to diversify the use of cucumbers on your table. There is a similar recipe on the website, but still a little different. If the moderators delete mine, well, so be it))
A light and at the same time hearty salad will be appropriate both for a festive table and for an ordinary family dinner. Bright and delicious, it will appeal to lovers of spicy Korean cuisine.
All the ingredients of the salad prepared according to this recipe emphasize and complement the taste of the main product – mushrooms. This salad is perfect for those who follow a diet, fast and not only. This will diversify your daily menu and festive table, where, among other things, there should be mushroom salads.
What kind of picnic is complete without vegetables? Let me offer you a spicy and delicious salad, which is very well suited to shish kebab and not only.
A fairly simple recipe for cooking baked carp. I want to say that it is not necessary to smear the carp with a large amount of seasonings and stuff it with cereals or vegetables – this we clog the taste of the fish itself. Garnish and sauce can be prepared separately and served with fish if desired.
I want to share a recipe (it’s not mine, I took it online from a very interesting culinary blogger), which I’ve been using for a long time. Everything is very simple: from making pita bread to making sauce.