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.
There is an interesting recipe for lamb soup with apples in Caucasian cuisine. Not fruit, namely meat soup, but with fruit. In Caucasian cuisine, this dish is also called “summer lamb soup”. Usually summer soups are served cold, such as okroshka, but this soup is served only hot.
Lagman is a dish that everyone should try. And don’t put the whole vegetable garden in this dish. Minimum ingredients. Maximum flavor. A rational approach. Try cooking this.
I made lagman. This, of course, is not a classic recipe, but we prepare it that way. Served as a first course. Seasonal vegetables are used in lagman. The dish turns out juicy, bright in taste and appearance.
One day, during a vacation in Sudak, my friends and I went to a small cafe. Since the cafe prefers to try dishes that have never been tried, they ordered lagman. After a short time, the waiter brought a bowl full of noodles with meat and vegetables. The aroma of the dish was mind-blowing, and the taste was beyond praise. I offer you a recipe for this wonderful dish!
Delicious hearty soup is perfect for lunch and dinner. It is prepared very quickly. Thanks to the flour, a thick consistency is obtained, and the creamy taste is incomparable.
This is our mother’s favorite soup, which we cook for a very long time and love it very much. Despite the name, it does not even include cream, but.. melted cheese gives the soup an unusually delicate taste. It’s impossible to break away 🙂
My family and I have been in love with Central Asian cuisine for almost 30 years and have been living in Osh (Kyrgyzstan) for 5 years. That’s when I tried this dish. It was prepared by the Uighurs, although the Uzbeks, Kazakhs (batta) have the same lagman. This dish is considered a thick soup.
