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Produce => Recipes => Topic started by: tim on November 21, 2005, 09:35:35

Title: Red Onions.
Post by: tim on November 21, 2005, 09:35:35
Apart from salads for colour, & corned beef hash, when do you use them & why??
Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: aquilegia on November 21, 2005, 11:04:17
I use them as rings in things like roasted veg, rattatouilee and veg casseroles where white onions might be a bit harsh. I prefer the sweeter taste of red ones, but don't get them often as they are more expensive (don't have room to grow onions).
Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: Derekthefox on November 21, 2005, 12:01:08
I find red onions have a milder taste, so are very edible when raw (I mean like the whole onion ! ) whereas whites can be a bit sharp sometimes. I love them raw with perhaps a bit of french dressing and parsley, or better still, coriander .... mmm

Derekthefox :D
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Post by: jennym on November 21, 2005, 12:36:21
Onion jam, really.
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Post by: jennym on November 21, 2005, 12:45:31
Indeed they do - but mine's not so posh! :)
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Post by: Pixie on November 21, 2005, 12:54:06
Ohhh red onion and sweet potato soup - just use a basic soup recipe and subsitute the veg for these - really lovely colour and kids adore it.
Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: Doris_Pinks on November 22, 2005, 12:34:17
As an accompaniment to goats cheese, especially as a pizza topping, goats cheese, red onions, garlic, fresh basil, black olives and a drizzle of olive oil.....my absolute favorite pizza!
Did red onion and goats cheese tarts a week ago, and like Aqui and Wardy, roasted veg and ratatouille.
Mine sadly have all been used up now. :'(
Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: Lady Cosmos on November 22, 2005, 13:17:32
I use my red onions mostly in salads, cucumber and red onions salad, spinach and onions, but also a lot when grilling fish, on a pizza, I make red onion soup, sausages in sweet red onion marmelade, focaccia with red onions and rosemary, list is endless, I think  ;D

Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: tim on November 22, 2005, 13:19:32
I'm listening!

Oh, just remembered - red onion tartin.
Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: Lady Cosmos on November 22, 2005, 14:35:07
.... and spaghetti wit red onions and brown sugar,mmmm,
when having entrecote the red onion tast better than the white one,
In the nasi goreng,
Spicey rosemary potatoes with onion in the oven,
Scampi + avocado + ptatoes in oven as starter.. and
bleu cheese recipe:
- 1dl cream whipped. cut onion+fry genltly in oil (2dl arachide oil), add 1 c port, boil 1 minute,
- cut 0,5 cucumber, 0,5teaspoon lemon juice, boil.
- mash onion, cucumber ++ 150 gr blue cheese
- bring 0,5teasp.lemonjuice+1cl port, some water + 1 eatsp.agar agar to boil
-stir till agar is dissolved, add the cream, some chive, add pepper, salt
-put in tin, 4 hours in fridge, cut in slices. :P
Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: kentishchloe on November 23, 2005, 17:05:00
I griddle them in chunks with peppers, courgettes, aubergines, fennel etc and stir them through couscous dressed with olive oil, thyme & lemon juice (in summer i do all veggies on bbq)
Title: Re: Red Onions.
Post by: tim on November 23, 2005, 19:20:28
Just couldn't resist it!
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Post by: northener on November 23, 2005, 19:45:57
Hmmm yum. Wardy do you get more hours per day in Chesterfield? Burger van!