Kitchen appliances and utensils
- hob or stove;
- small pan;
- measuring cup or kitchen scale;
- knife;
- tablespoon;
- cutting board;
- container for pickling.
Ingredients
- Red onion - 200 g
- Wine Vinegar (6%) - 120 g
- Sugar - 50 g
Step cooking
Onion preparation
- For pickling you will need 250 grams of red onion. Cut each onion in half.
- Remove unusable roots.
- Peel the halves of the bulbs.
- Rinse the onions under running water. This will help to remove the top layer more easily, and also prevent tears from appearing during cutting. Cut the onion into half rings. If you don’t have much time for pickling onions, then chop it very thinly (up to 3 millimeters thick). If you cut the onion into half rings about 6 millimeters thick, it will crackle, but it will take more time to marinate thoroughly.
You can use ordinary white onions - it will turn out no less tasty. Since it is pickled in a hot way, excess bitterness will leave the onion.
Marinade preparation
- Pour 120 grams of wine vinegar into a small saucepan. If you do not have wine, then you can use apple cider vinegar.
- Place the pot on medium heat. Add 50 grams of sugar to vinegar and mix thoroughly.
- Bring the marinade to a boil.
- After boiling, remove the pan from the stove.
Onion pickling
- Put the chopped onion in a bowl in which you will pickle it. It is best to use a glass bowl or jar with a lid.
- Pour it with hot marinade. If the marinade does not completely cover the onion, add a little warm boiled water and mix.
- Leave the onions until the marinade has cooled completely. Then cover the container with a lid or cling film. Put the onions in the refrigerator and let it marinate for at least 1 day.
- It is necessary to store such onions in the marinade, in the refrigerator, no longer than 2 months. The dish is ready. Enjoy your meal!
For a more spicy aroma, you can add a few spices to the marinade after cooling. Caraway seeds, fennel seeds, coriander, oregano or fresh dill perfectly complement the taste of onions. If you like hot pepper, add some hot pepper.
Feed options
Pickled onions are great as a side dish for meat or fish. It is also very actively used as a component of vegetable salads. Sweet, carefully pickled onions are often added to snacks, sandwiches, and hamburgers.
Video recipe
To learn more about the stages of cooking red pickled onions, check out the author’s video. Thanks to the visual instruction in which this process is demonstrated from beginning to end, you can easily repeat this recipe.
Now you know how to quickly and simply very tasty marinate red onions. Dear readers, if you have already tried making onions according to this recipe, share your impressions with other readers. And in what dishes do you use pickled onions? If you have tips that could make the cooking process easier for others, leave them under this article.
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