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.
Fast and easy, delicious and beautiful! Lamb leg from the oven, and the fact that it was boiled in advance, we will not tell anyone. We’ll cheat… and there will still be broth left. Recommend.
Any filling, even sweet. I love this type of pies on a tender dough with cabbage. I cooked it once with stewed cabbage and prunes-very festive and delicious. Today, at the request of my husband, I will add meat, a kind of male whim. The filling can be prepared in advance, but it turned out to be self-sufficient-delicious.
Very tasty and hearty salad, which can be safely prepared for a festive table, I am sure it will not leave any guest indifferent. It is noticed that the infused salad becomes even tastier )
It was a side dish for chicken skewers in a Turkish restaurant. The main thing is the proportions, as the cook said. The easy-to-prepare dish turned out to be very tasty. And we don’t need much food.
Hot for all occasions, whether it’s a family dinner or a holiday. Beautiful and delicious, an abundance of vegetables and juicy meatballs. I recommend. P.S.: by the way, as an option to “reanimate” yesterday’s meatballs or cutlets.
Delicious and satisfying dish. Chicken with pumpkin and onion in sour cream sauce. It is prepared simply and quickly from the most affordable products. Try it!
A very interesting and unusual recipe for those who miss the bright and fragrant Mediterranean cuisine. In fact, this recipe was given to me by a friend with the name “chicken in Italian”. But since I had Provencal herbs at hand, and without a good collection of herbs it would not be so delicious, I renamed the recipe, especially since I also adjusted it for myself. I highly recommend it!
I suggest making pancakes stuffed with chicken fillet, bell pepper and cheese. And then bake them with quail eggs. These pancakes are very tasty, satisfying and perfectly diversify the menu, try it!
