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.
New Year is a family holiday. And there are always children at the festive table. And they are, as you know, fastidious and terrible conservatives! But they are great connoisseurs of beauty and are always happy to have brightly and cheerfully decorated dishes. Even the simplest! Prepare juicy tender cutlets and turn them into mice! Try on the role of a fairy! And there will be no whims at the table!
I want to offer you our favorite snack, which we have been preparing at any time of the year for ten years. Everything is very simple, but how delicious, juicy, simply incomparable.
I’m in a hurry to share my favorite salad recipe! I prepare it for every holiday and for the New Year as well. Once I learned to cook a similar salad from a girl named Nadine, but then, after a few years, I changed it to my liking so much that I had to change the name. The salad turns out juicy, sweet-spicy, satisfying, and the dressing should be taken into account, it will suit any meat salads.
I offer you a fragrant, delicious, hot dish – tongue stewed in tomato sauce. Thanks to the Bulgarian lecho, if you have a boiled tongue, this dish is prepared in a few minutes.
A light but quite satisfying salad. I love these salads because of the opportunity to eat only them. Mushrooms and chicken give them richness, and pineapple gives the salad lightness. and you can experiment with salad dressing.