Onions are an unusually healthy vegetable, which contains not only vitamins, valuable trace elements, but also substances rich in essential oils that increase immunity and strengthen the body. Pickled onions are an excellent appetizer that can be served as an addition to meat, fish dishes, vegetable salads.
Onions are a vegetable with a very original spicy taste. The pungency and bitterness are given to it by essential oils contained in it in large quantities. Eating onions is incredibly healthy. It has antiseptic properties, helps to normalize the microflora in the gastrointestinal tract, and increases the protective properties of the body. It must be eaten during the off-season, when the risk of developing colds increases.
Many people dislike onions because of their specific smell and bitterness. Bitterness goes away when cooked or marinated. Pickled onions have excellent taste and at the same time are very useful, since all vitamins are preserved in it. This simple yet successful snack can be prepared for future use and served when needed.
Pickled onion rings
- 9 large onions;
- 1 liter of water;
- a little salt (about 4 tsp);
- 500 ml vinegar 9%;
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- bay leaf (2 pcs);
- black peppercorns (10 peas).
Cooking steps:
- Peel the onions and cut into thin rings. It is better to discard rotten, damaged vegetables immediately, because they can not only spoil the taste of the preparation, but also cause a decrease in the shelf life. You can chop the onions with a knife, but the most convenient way to do this is with a special shredder. The rings in this case are thin and of the same thickness.
- Put the onion rings in a bowl or saucepan, pour over boiling water and drain the liquid after a few seconds. This simple procedure helps to remove the bitterness from the product.
- For harvesting onions for the winter, it is better to use sterilized jars. To sterilize a glass container, you can hold it with the neck down over the steam for 3-5 minutes. It is convenient to use a special nozzle for the pan. You can also put clean jars in the oven and fry them for 5-10 minutes at a temperature of 100 ° C. Raise the temperature gradually so that the glass does not burst.
- Fill sterile jars with onion rings and tamp lightly.
- Boil water in a saucepan, add salt, sugar, bay leaf and peppercorns. Can be used for marinade and other spices if desired. Cloves will give the onion a spicy taste. But you need to add it carefully. It is enough to put 2-3 buds in the marinade. Coriander seeds and allspice give an original taste to the preparation. 1 minute after boiling, add vinegar to a saucepan and turn off the stove immediately.
- Pour marinade into jars filled with onion rings and close with sterile screw caps. To sterilize them, it is enough to immerse them in boiling water for 10 seconds. After cooling, remove the jars to a cool place.
Pickled onions with chili and ginger
To prepare a sharp workpiece, you will need the following ingredients:
- 5 large onions;
- a piece of ginger root;
- 3 garlic cloves;
- 2, 5 glasses of water;
- 1 glass of vinegar;
- half a chili pepper;
- 3-6 peas of black pepper;
- 1 tbsp. l salt;
- 1 tbsp. l sugar;
- 2-3 clove buds.
Cooking steps:
- Peel the bulbs, and then cut into rings or half rings of the selected thickness. For this recipe, you can choose both regular onions and red onions. Red onions not only look interesting, but also have a softer, slightly sweetish taste.
- Peel the ginger root and cut into thin slices. Peel the garlic and cut each clove into 2 pieces. Free half of hot pepper from seeds, cut into rings.
- Arrange the onion in sterile jars, tamp it. Add garlic, ginger slices, hot pepper slices to each jar. Put a clove bud and 1-2 black peppercorns in each jar.
- Pour water into a saucepan, put on fire, add salt and a little sugar. When the water boils, you can add vinegar and pour the hot marinade over the jars of vegetables and spices. Screw the jars with sterile lids and, after cooling, put them in a cool place.
- This recipe uses table vinegar 9%. If you wish, you can prepare it from the essence. To do this, dissolve 2 tbsp in a glass of water. l essence (70%).
Small pickled onions with beets
Bulbs can be pickled whole, but very small heads or onion sets are suitable for these purposes. To give the workpiece an original look, you can make it with beets. To prepare a delicious onion snack you will need:
- 500 g of onion sets;
- 1 small beet;
- 7 tbsp. l vinegar 9%;
- 2 tsp salt;
- 2 tbsp. l sugar;
- a little black pepper (5-7 peas);
- 0.5 liters of water.
Cooking steps:
- Peel the onion and cut off the tops. Onion sets are ideal for this recipe. If you want to pickle large onions, you need to cut them into several pieces. Both white and red onions are suitable.
- Peel the beets and cut them into thin slices. You can grate it on a coarse grater or use a special grater designed for cooking Korean carrots.
- Place the onions and beets in a saucepan. The dishes should be enameled or made of stainless steel.
- To prepare the marinade, pour water into a separate bowl, add a little salt and sugar, as well as black pepper or other selected spices. Put the pan on fire. After boiling the solution, add vinegar, pour the marinade over the vegetables and boil for 1 minute.
- Put onions and beets in sterile jars, pour marinade and tighten with sterile screw caps. Such a blank can later be used as an original snack.
In this recipe, you can use regular beet juice instead of beets. It will give the workpiece an original red tint.
Onions marinated in apple cider vinegar and orange juice
You can originally pickle onions in apple cider vinegar, adding orange juice to it. To prepare homemade blanks you will need:
- 1 kg of small onions;
- 1, 5 glasses of water;
- a glass of water (for the marinade);
- 1 liter of water (for brine);
- 1 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 glass of orange juice.
Cooking steps:
- Peel and chop the onions. You can cut them into rings or cut each into 4 pieces. It all depends on the size of the bulbs and taste preferences.
- Dissolve salt in a liter of hot water and pour onion with brine for 6 hours. Then drain the brine.
- To prepare the marinade, pour water into a saucepan, add apple cider vinegar and orange juice. You can use lemon juice instead of orange juice in the recipe, but it is better to dilute it with water in a 1: 1 ratio. The workpiece in this case will taste more sour.
- When the marinade boils, put the onion in it and boil for 5 minutes. Arrange hot onions in sterile jars, pour marinade and tighten with lids. This workpiece must be stored in a cool place. Pickled onions are ideal as an addition to poultry dishes and baked pork.
Onions pickled according to this recipe acquire an original taste and a yellowish tint. Adding zest to the jars will make homemade preparation even more interesting.
The proportions in all recipes can be slightly adjusted, focusing on your taste. Increasing the amount of vinegar will make the onion more acidic. Sugar, on the other hand, softens the taste. It is not recommended to add more salt to the workpiece.
