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 delicious dinner of chicken liver and potatoes will not leave you indifferent. It is prepared quickly, and the result is tender. I once found the recipe on the Internet, adapting it to the taste of our family.
I want to introduce you to Bulgarian cheese soup, or, as it is also called, “Purple soup”. The taste of this soup is sour and salty. Very tasty and nutritious, although cooked without meat.
It is under this name that it can be found in any restaurant where it is in constant demand, because it has a minimum of calories and undoubted benefits. Cook it quickly and easily. And on the second day it becomes even tastier. It can serve as an excellent side dish.
When I started cooking, I didn’t even think it would turn out SO delicious. We really went to a luxurious dinner))) True, it’s a little troublesome, but such trifles do not frighten us! Come on in, I’ll share the recipe.
I offer you another version of lentil soup with pumpkin. There are several of their websites, and they are all so different! But this combination – lentils and pumpkin – is so successful that, I think, the following variations will be born further. I came up with this particular version of lentil-pumpkin soup myself.
I love this light and delicious soup of canned tuna and tomatoes. Just half an hour, and the first course is ready. This recipe often helps me out when I don’t have time at all, but I need to cook something quickly.
