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 very light but hearty salad. Low in calories, ideal for weight loss and fasting. Even if your table is bursting with an abundance of dishes, not a single gram of this salad will remain!
Paella is a national Spanish (Valencian) dish made of rice, tinted with saffron, with the addition of olive oil. In addition, seafood, vegetables, chicken, sausage, etc. can be added to paella. The name comes from the Latin word patella — “frying pan”. Traditionally served on Sundays or St. Joseph’s Day.
Using a variety of ingredients, you can get an amazing and exquisite salad, each component of which brings its own zest to the rich palette of taste!!! After trying it once, you will do it again and again!
Risotto is a cross between porridge and soup, from which all the liquid has boiled away. This is not even a dish, but a way of cooking rice – having learned the basics of risotto, you can change the recipe according to your desire, taste and the products available in the refrigerator. At your request, risotto can be light vegetarian or hearty meat, spicy or very tender, crumbly or watery. This dish changes depending on your mood. Would you like to taste saffron risotto and tender mini octopus today? I offer you another option from the many existing ones. Not only in different regions of Italy, but even every housewife has her own favorite way.
Friends, as the name suggests, today we will go to hot Egypt. I combined 2 simple dishes – salad and hot appetizer, because they are too simple to break them into 2 recipes!
Delicious and satisfying, this pizza goes well with beer, what could be better for gatherings with friends. Tomato sauce with garlic complements the flavor of seafood.
Tacos are a Mexican dish. Cornbread and a variety of fillings. Since I’m on duty, I cooked vegetable tacos (salsa made entirely of vegetables), but the guests were served seafood.