Pickle onions

[lancon]

Anybody here have a really kickass recipe for making pickle onions?

 

[cerebus]

I made some pickled chillies the other day and it's shockingly simple to do. It's really nothing more than white vinegar, sugar (find the proportions from recipes, it's something like 1 cup to 50ml sugar but it will also depend how you want it to taste on the sweet/sour spectrum), boiled and then jarred with the onions and let to sit for a couple of weeks. You can add peppercorns, dill, rosemary, bay leaf and mustard seeds to flavour it some more.

 

[biena]

I made some pickled chillies the other day and it's shockingly simple to do. It's really nothing more than white vinegar, sugar (find the proportions from recipes, it's something like 1 cup to 50ml sugar but it will also depend how you want it to taste on the sweet/sour spectrum), boiled and then jarred with the onions and let to sit for a couple of weeks. You can add peppercorns, dill, rosemary, bay leaf and mustard seeds to flavour it some more.

You forgot the ginger / lemon leaf

Being making these for a while, awesome. (leaving out the garlic)
http://www.food.com/recipe/peppadews-piquant-peppers-the-pickling-recipe-449835

For onions I would use the premixed pickling spice / white vinigar / sugar
e.g
http://www.food.com/recipe/crisp-pickled-silver-skin-onions-39016

 

[upup]

Anybody here have a really kickass recipe for making pickle onions?

Are you going to use pickle onions or small onions?

 

[biena]

Are you going to use pickle onions or small onions?

Doubt he is going to find pickle onions (rarely see them for sale). The ones they sell as pickling onions is just normal small onions

 

[Foxhound5366]

Step 1: Go to Spar
Step 2: Find a bottle of Judy's Extra Strong Pickled Onions
Step 3: Buy at check-out
Step 4: Enjoy

 

[biena]

Step 1: Go to Spar
Step 2: Find a bottle of Judy's Extra Strong Pickled Onions
Step 3: Buy at check-out
Step 4: Enjoy

You forget step 0:
step 0: squash any feeling of fun/anticipation/pride

 

[Foxhound5366]

You forget step 0:
step 0: squash any feeling of fun/anticipation/pride

I save that for whatever I'm making with the store-bought pickled onions Hey, if you can go to all the effort to make your own, and you have the time and enthusiasm for that, then more strength to you!

 

[biena]

I save that for whatever I'm making with the store-bought pickled onions Hey, if you can go to all the effort to make your own, and you have the time and enthusiasm for that, then more strength to you!

Ah that explains it, you need to cover up the awful taste of store bought with something else

btw my steps is quicker
step 1: take pickles out of cupboard
step 2: open jar
step 3: enjoy

No need to get in the car and drive the 2km to the store, and I have one less step

 

[lancon]

I want to make my own in fairly large quantities. A store bought bottle doesnt last a week. Eat them like sweets. Damn can almost feel the soureness in my mouth now.

 

[TheTwo]

Doubt he is going to find pickle onions (rarely see them for sale). The ones they sell as pickling onions is just normal small onions

There's a difference? I always thought pickle onions were the usual small ones u find at food lovers?

 

[longboy]

This is how I usually make pickled onions charou style like my grandpa and dad used to do it:

buy 1 sack small onions, don't buy pickle onions. The ordinary onions are much stronger in flavour. NEVER use purple or pink onions, always brown skinned variety. Get the smallest ones that you can. Peel the skin off and dry 'em in the sun for a day. Fill a glass jar with apple cider vinegar. Drop onions in and seal jar. Keep in a dry place for a month. Open jar, eat, cum in surprise at the almighty goodness and flavour.

 

[cerebus]

Step 1: Go to Spar
Step 2: Find a bottle of Judy's Extra Strong Pickled Onions
Step 3: Buy at check-out
Step 4: Enjoy

It really isn't difficult to make your own, it's probably 30 minutes of total prep and you have something much nicer than store bought. Same goes for all forms of cooking by the way.

 

[upup]

There's a difference? I always thought pickle onions were the usual small ones u find at food lovers?

I once visited a veg garden, saw round things on top of some onion plant. Ask the lady what it was, she said that is pickle onions. She only had like 5 plants. She said she will give me a plant when I pass there on the write time.

 

[Foxhound5366]

It really isn't difficult to make your own, it's probably 30 minutes of total prep and you have something much nicer than store bought. Same goes for all forms of cooking by the way.

Ok ok ok, I'll put this onto my bucket list, thanks. Somewhere right between 'learn how to build an island teepee' and 'successfully identify wild mushrooms which are safe to eat and make a fantastic meal from them'. Life's just too short, dammit, lol.