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.
It would seem that there is nothing unusual about meat and potatoes? And an unusual way of cooking, which gives the dish a unique taste. After all, the dish is baked in the oven, on a “pillow” of hay, which is mixed with fragrant thyme and filled with white port.
For a long time, festive tables practically could not do without liver pates. And not only festive ones. Pate with butter is ideal for breakfast sandwiches, afternoon tea or just a snack. It certainly has a lot of calories. It was prepared from beef or pork liver with abundant addition of butter. So, today I’m going to make this pate. Only I’ll take the bird liver. I will also add butter to it. The oil must be of high quality. The liver, after frying with onions and carrots, was passed through a meat grinder a couple of times to get a homogeneous, tender mass.
New Year is not only New Year’s Eve, but also long holidays when it is necessary to feed our household. I want to offer you a delicious, simple and quite interesting meat dish. It is prepared on the basis of the famous oriental dish called Kibbe. It’s usually made from lean lamb, but we’re going to cook it from pork, so for obvious reasons.
I want to share how I cook aspic from chicken. We love it very much and often cook it. For some reason I still haven’t made a recipe for the site? Boiled chicken meat from hot broth I always grind with a meat grinder. Today, a food processor will help me with this, and I will spend less time cooking before putting the aspic to freeze in the refrigerator.
I suggest the option of cooking dumplings, which will be an excellent hot dish for any holiday. Dumplings can be prepared in advance and stored in the freezer, and on the right day just bake them in cream and serve to the table.