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.
Traditionally, this dish is prepared on a strong meat broth, with an abundance of smoked meats. But in summer I want to take it easier, so we use chicken broth, quite a bit of bacon and fresh tomatoes – almost a dietary hodgepodge. To heal.
Dear friends, potatoes in Russian! We will not eat meat in French yet! We are all mentally and satisfying, of course! After all, cheese with bechamel is so wonderful!
Turkish version of pizza in the form of boats. Very satisfying and delicious pastries with an interesting molding. Soft dough with crispy and juicy filling.
Meat rolls are a dish of Ukrainian cuisine. Serve them hot as a main course, with any side dish. Often such rolls or meat rolls can be seen with a filling in the form of stew or sauerkraut. I have a variant of stuffing cabbage (raw).
For the first time I tried this dish in the late 90s (there were such kiosks where they sold Chinese cuisine. I don’t know why he disappeared. There was an interesting and varied menu. Fast and delicious. Like in American movies. Food in boxes, chopsticks were given out separately. You go home – you bought it on the way, and the evening is free. In any case, shawarma is better. That’s the name I remember. It turns out a real and very famous recipe, canonized in China.
