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.
No New Year’s feast is complete without snacks. One of the simple but spectacular snacks on the festive table is stuffed eggs. Over the years, recipes have been improved and new interesting combinations of products in the filling have been invented. The result is always beautiful.
A hearty, tasty, appetizing and hot dish will decorate your festive table. The dish consists of stewed cabbage, sweet and sour apples and chicken meatballs. And all this is stewed in a spicy sour cream and tomato sauce.
A simple soulful dish. Fragrant and somehow very homely. It is cooked quickly, eaten even faster. Serve potatoes with porcini mushrooms as a main dish or as a side dish, for example, with meat.
Cutlets on the Christmas table are present in almost every home. I want to share my version with you. A few years ago I found it on the Internet, I still use it. The uncomplicated and unusual taste of these cutlets will surprise and delight you and your guests.
Onion cream soup is exquisite, delicate, velvety, fragrant. If you haven’t tried this soup yet, it’s time to cook it, especially since all the products are quite affordable. Of course, you will have to spend time preparing, but believe me, it’s worth it. And I suggest serving this soup with a freshly baked homemade roll.
Chicken cutlets with broccoli and cauliflower are delicious, juicy. They are suitable for dietary nutrition and for children, as they are not at all fatty. Our family loves such cakes very much.
Fillet cooked according to this recipe turns out to be incredibly tender, very juicy and fragrant. If you do not take into account the pickling time, then this dish is prepared quite quickly. Very tasty, try it!