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.
Pork in mustard-honey sauce is a great option for a family dinner. This dish is prepared from ordinary products, and the result is a real delicacy. Sweet and spicy sauce gives pork tenderness and juiciness. It goes well with any side dish, whether it’s potatoes, beans, cereals, pasta or fresh vegetables and herbs. Cooking pork is quite simple, but the result will be great and your family will certainly like it.
Just imagine: a salad of fresh tomatoes, seasoned with olive oil, with fresh basil leaves and tender canned red beans… delicious salad with a very high protein content (thanks to beans).
Easy-to-prepare lean salad with beans – delicious and simple! Lean bean salad is so beautiful that before you try it, you will want to start enjoying its appearance. Our vegetable dish is not only very tasty, but is also one of the most useful and nutritious dishes, as the salad contains a large amount of vitamins that are so necessary for our body.
From hearty lentils and spicy mushroom salad. It turned out very tasty. My husband likes lentils with rice and onions fried in olive oil, and this time there were mushrooms.
Tender liver in hot sauce, fragrant thanks to vegetables and spices and spicy thanks to the addition of white wine. I think you should like the recipe for cooking liver in a rustic way – after all, this simple dish is a piece of tender liver in a thick sauce of white wine, mushrooms and vegetables!
Light, unpretentious salad. The piquant, slightly mustard taste of capers will give juiciness and brightness to any salad. Let’s try to cook according to one of the recipes!
A simple and healthy salad of red beans, green apple and red onion. This salad uses ingredients that not only go well with each other, but are also useful. Red beans are rich in B vitamins, which we need to strengthen the nervous system and immunity, which is especially important in spring.
Green apples and red onions have the same properties.