Onions are often used in hot and cold dishes. To be able to safely add this vegetable to a salad, you will need to rid it of the proverbial bitterness. For this purpose, onions are scalded with hot water or a mixture of water, vinegar and spices.
It is necessary
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- onion;
- water;
- table vinegar;
- Bay leaf;
- peppercorns.
Instructions
Step 1
Remove the husk from the onion. Cut the peeled onion into rings or cubes. To prevent the essential oils contained in this plant from irritating the eyes, place a bowl of cold water near a cutting board and moisten a knife periodically.
Step 2
Place the chopped onions in a colander and quickly pour boiling water over the entire area of the chopped vegetables evenly. The scalding process should not last more than one and a half minutes.
Step 3
Rinse the onion with chilled boiled water. The speed of such processing will allow you to preserve some of the nutrients, because of which this vegetable is so valued.
Step 4
Red sweet onions should not be scalded before adding to the salad. Even if you come across a vegetable with a pungent flavor characteristic of sweet varieties grown in the middle lane, soak it in table vinegar. Otherwise, the bow will change color.
Step 5
After a quick treatment with boiling water, onions intended for salads can not be rinsed with cold water, but soaked in vinegar. To process in this way, pour boiling water over the chopped onion, shake the strainer slightly to get rid of excess water and put the vegetables in an enamel, porcelain or glass dish.
Step 6
Pour room temperature table vinegar on the onion and let sit for fifteen minutes. After draining the liquid, use the processed product to make snacks. Onions should be cut and scalded immediately before cooking.
Step 7
Fragrant onions for fish salads will turn out if you treat them with hot marinade. To prepare such a liquid, add bay leaf to boiling water, a few peas of black pepper and pour in vinegar. Pour the hot mixture over the chopped onion and soak for twenty minutes. After the liquid has drained, you can put the onions in the salad.
