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 with the same name was treated by a friend on her birthday. Quite often, dumplings and manti are prepared for the New Year, for a change, you can cook this dish and freeze it for the future. “Cabbage rolls” turn out to be very tasty, satisfying, with a juicy fragrant filling.
I offer you a recipe for a light salad, which will be an excellent snack option for the New Year. No special effort is required for its preparation, and its composition will please even those who adhere to proper nutrition.
But in a different way, because of porcini mushrooms, but with 33% cream, only “royal”, not otherwise. It will fit perfectly into the New Year’s menu. After all, you can serve it in different ways – on a sandwich with a snack, as a filling when filling eggs and pies, even in a sauce for dressing salads. Universal pate.
Cutlets, the filling for which I will cook in a food processor from pork ham with a small amount of fat, with the addition of white breadcrumbs and mustard to the dough. Airy, tender, thanks to the fact that I ground the meat into minced meat in a combine on a pulsating mode. For a festive serving, I will beautifully fry them in strips in a grill pan.
The recipe for cooking these dumplings is lean. The filling is made from red beans. And thanks to the fragrant spices, these dumplings will compete with traditional meat. I invite you to join your family on New Year’s Eve and bake these delicious dumplings!
Koktal is a dish of Kazakh cuisine. Koktal in Kazakh means “willow”, in the old days fish was put on willow branches and smoked on charcoal. Now we use a special cardline that resembles our lamp. Koktal is almost always prepared from carp, carp or carp carp. The fish turns out fragrant, juicy and very tasty. The Koktal can be prepared in the oven, of course, the taste will not be the same as on fire, but it turns out very well in the oven. Kazakhs prepare koktal for holidays or on weekends when a large family gathers. I advise fish lovers to familiarize themselves with the recipe.