Quick marinated onion

Pickled onions, seasoned with mayonnaise or another sauce, can serve as an independent snack. Often it is added to salads. At least it serves as decoration of dishes from vegetables, fish, meat. Without it, it is difficult to imagine kebab and herring. In the marinade, this vegetable can be stored for a long time, without losing freshness, but very few people prepare it for future use. It makes no sense to occupy the shelves in cans with snacks, which can be done in a hurry. Marinated onion has a pleasant taste, appetizing look and easy to prepare. If not eaten immediately, then you can still put it in a clean jar, pour the marinade and put in the refrigerator, where it will not spoil in 1-2 months. But experience shows that it disappears from the refrigerator long before the expiration of the specified period.

Cooking Features

Even an inexperienced cook will be able to make marinated fast-onion; you just need to know a few subtleties.

• In order for the eyes to be less watery when cleaning and chopping onions, the knife should be dipped into cold water more often. Another extraordinary way not to cry when working with onions - put it in front of it for 10 minutes in the freezer.
• The pickled onion looks most beautiful if it is cut into rings of medium size. It is recommended to cut large onions into halves of rings. Making the pieces too thick or too thin is not worth it, the optimum thickness is 2-3 mm.
• You can pickle onions in a hot or cold way. The hot method allows you to get a snack without much bitterness, but almost not at all crispy. Cold marinated onions remain crisp and fairly spicy. If you want to get moderately sharp pickled onions, you need to pour it with boiling water, after 30 seconds, put it in cold water, then squeeze and marinate in a cold way.
• It is recommended to pickle onions in glass, ceramic containers or food plastic containers. Do not use aluminum dishes for this: it forms harmful substances upon contact with acids.
• In order to pickle onions in a fast way, 9 percent table vinegar is most often used. It can always be replaced with apple, grape or even balsamic, taking them in larger quantities. Six percent of vinegar will take one and a half times more, three percent - three times more. Onions, pickled in apple, grape or other fruit vinegar, have a more pleasant taste and aroma. Acetic essence can be used only in the form previously diluted to the desired concentration.

Pickled onions, various spicy herbs and spices can be added to it. They are selected based on the purpose for which the finished snack will be used.

Quick marinated pickled onions - popular recipe

Calorie dishes: 465 kcal, per 100 g: 55 kcal.

Composition:

• onions - 0, 3-0, 5 kg;
• water - 0, 25 l;
• salt - 10 g;
• sugar - 60 g;
• table vinegar (9 percent) - 120 ml.

Method of preparation:

• Free the onions from the husk, cut into rings or half rings about 2-3 mm thick. Put in a container in which you will pickle it.
• Pour salt and sugar in a bowl, add vinegar and water to them. Whisk with a whisk, trying to achieve complete dissolution of the crystals.
• Pour marinade onion, mix by hand.
• Store the onion container in the refrigerator.

After half an hour, the onions, marinated according to the recipe, can be used to make salads or serve as an independent snack. This recipe is universal, it marinates onions for fish and meat.

Pickled onions in 5 minutes

Caloric content of the dish: 152 kcal, per 100 g: 38 kcal.

Composition:

• onions - 100 g;
• water - 0, 2 l;
• table vinegar (9 percent) - 80 ml;
• salt - 5 g;
• sugar (optional) - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Onion, cut into thin half rings, fold into a container or ceramic container suitable for use in a microwave oven.
• Sprinkle with salt and sugar, mix.
• Mix water and vinegar separately, pour onions with this mixture.
• Place the onion container in the microwave and run it on medium power for 3 minutes. If the onions, for your taste, are not marinated, start the unit for another 1-2 minutes.

This option of cooking pickled onions is one of the fastest. You can use it if it is time to serve the appetizer, but you only guessed it with pickled onions now.

Instant onions, marinated in apple vinegar

Calorie dishes: 132 kcal, per 100 g: 83 kcal.

Composition:

• onions - 100 g;
• salt - a pinch;
• sugar - 20 g;
• Apple Cider Vinegar (6%) - 40 ml.

Method of preparation:

• Cut the onion into cubes or half rings. Fill with boiling water, fold it in a colander, put it under a stream of cold water for a few seconds.
• Mix vinegar with sugar and salt, pour onion with this mixture.

Onions marinated according to this recipe will be ready for use in 5-15 minutes, depending on the size of onion slices.

Instant hot pickled onions

Caloric content of the dish: 61 kcal, per 100 g: 31 kcal. Composition:

• onions - 100 g;
• red wine vinegar (3 percent) - 100 ml;
• salt, fresh greens - to taste.

Method of preparation:

• Put greens on the bottom of the pan, add salt, and pour vinegar.
• Bring to a boil, add chopped onion rings.
• Sweat it in vinegar for 2 minutes.

It remains to squeeze the bow and use it for its intended purpose. If the vegetable is left in the marinade before it is completely cooled, the appetizer will be even more delicious.

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