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.
For me, it’s just a celebration of body and soul, I love salads with this vegetable! I want to share one of these recipes with you! So, I invite you to a delicious juicy salad with an unusual dressing!
This roll is a lifesaver stick. A series of holidays is approaching, you often don’t really want to cook, and it would be good to serve hot every day. I cook this roll (or two) a week or more before the New Year and freeze it. When the guests are on the doorstep, I send them directly into the oven in foil and serve them on the table in 40 minutes. Thanks to the pepper and cucumbers, the roll looks elegant in the cut. Cucumbers are better to take pickled, they are sweet and sour and especially good in this dish.
A simple, juicy and pleasant-tasting salad. The main role is played by spicy beetroot, which goes well with fresh vegetables. This salad will definitely not harm the figure and diversify the lean table..
The recipe is interesting, but I didn’t dare to try it for a long time. Very unusual, but delicious. For those who are not afraid to try something new.
There are a lot of recipes for chicken cutlets, I tried both ordinary and berry jelly, and prune – each was good in its own way. I hope that my version will be useful to someone, because it is so convenient to have a jar of pate in the refrigerator on the eve of the New Year holidays – and you can have a quick snack yourself, and guests are not ashamed to offer it.