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 are some salads that are in themselves a full-fledged dish, and not just a snack. A warm vegetable salad with a creamy onion sauce from their category is hearty and delicious.
Yes, this seems to be a simple salad I have been preparing for 25 years, and it does not leave anyone indifferent. Only it is necessary to take into account that for some time he needs to brew, so that the carrot and meat make friends.
Baked vegetables are good and delicious both on their own and as a side dish. This salad is easy to prepare on a picnic or in the country. And for a change, you can Supplement the salad with sauce.
Unusual? No, it seems that all the ingredients are very ordinary… Their combination is unusual. And in the end, a very tasty and healthy salad with broccoli.
In this version of cooking beef, eggplants are turned into a sauce during the stewing process. The dish turns out to have a rich taste, fragrant and satisfying. You can serve it without any side dish, just under the sauce in which the meat was cooked. But the side dish will not be superfluous. For stewing, I chose beef brisket, each about 500-600 grams. bones, veins and fat segments were allowed to broth for soup, leaving only the pulp for stewing. Previously marinated in wine, the meat received an additional taste and became softer.
