Pickled onion
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Place of origin | Various |
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Main ingredients | Onion |
Ingredients generally used | Vinegar, salt, spices |
Pickled onions are a food item consisting of
Pickled onions are pickled in vinegar and can vary in size. Silverskin onions are pickled in white vinegar, and are considered to be small. Full sized onions, e.g., Spanish onions, can be pickled if sliced first.[7][8]
By country
In Hong Kong, pickled onions are served in many Cantonese restaurants, especially around dinner time, as a small dish before the main course is served.
In Mexican cuisine, one preparation, cebollas encurtidas, has sliced red onions pickled in a mixture of citrus juices and vinegar, which is served as a garnish or condiment. Sometimes cooked beets are added, producing a more strongly pink coloured dish.[9] Pickled red onions in bitter orange juice are especially emblematic of Yucatán cuisine, where they are used as a garnish or condiment, especially for seafood.[10]
In
In the United Kingdom, the onions are traditionally eaten alongside fish and chips and with a ploughman's lunch.
In the United States, pickled onions are frequently served as a side dish and are also used as an ingredient in various regional recipes.
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Sliced pickled onions atop a sandwich
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A dish of pickled silverskin onions
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Dutch Amsterdamse uitjes (at left): small onions pickled with spices; the yellow colour is from eitherossenworst(smoked minced beef).
See also
References
- ISBN 978-92-9043-528-0.
- ^ Channel 4 Recipes - Pickled Onions. Retrieved 26 May 2014
- ^ "Waitrose pickled silverskin onions drained 150g". waitrose.com. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
- ISBN 978-1-84593-399-9.
- ISBN 978-0-7514-0404-3.
- ^ Arthurs, Deborah (26 May 2016). "Garden to glass cocktail recipe: Pickled spring onion martini is a neat spring twist on a Gibson". The Metro. Retrieved 6 July 2017.
- ^ Home Pickling, published by Sarsons.
- ^ How to Get Into a Pickle, published by Sarsons.
- ^ Latina Lite Cooking: 200 Delicious Lowfat Recipes from All Over the Americas - With Special Selections on Nutrition and Weight Loss, Maria Dolores Beatriz. Hachette Book Group, 2009, page 102
- ^ Jinich, Pati (25 December 2009). "Pickled Red Onions a la Yucateca". Pati Jinich. Retrieved 2018-06-25.
- ^ "Raclette". Museum Restaurant. 13 November 2019. Retrieved 2022-09-23.