Shashlik, salad with potatoes and smoked sausages, sandwich on a baguette with pork, beef steak on the bone and hundreds of other recipes that use pickled onions.
But it is also important how the vegetable is marinated. There are recipes that turn onions into an additive that can outshine even meat.
Most often, housewives marinate onions for shashlik. But usually they use only vinegar. You shouldn't refuse this ingredient, but the recipe can be significantly improved.
Ingredients
To prepare a luxurious addition to meat, you will need the following products:
- red onion – 3 pcs.;
- vinegar (6%) – 125 ml;
- water – 125 ml;
- garlic – 5 cloves;
- cilantro – 2 sprigs;
- adjika – 3 tbsp;
- sugar – 1 tsp;
- salt and pepper to taste.
If the onion is bitter
There is a simple tip on how to remove bitterness from onions. The vegetable should be immersed in boiling water for 5 seconds (no more). If you keep it in the liquid for too long, it will not crunch. Then throw the onion into a colander.
Vinegar can be replaced with the juice of three lemons, and the amount of sugar can be increased to 3 teaspoons per onion. Another ingredient that will not spoil the marinade is cloves.
How to cook
1. Cut the onion into half rings and chop the garlic and cilantro.
2. Place vegetables and greens in a bowl, then add water and vinegar, salt, adjika, pepper, and sugar.
3. The onion is marinated for at least 2 hours, after which the appetizer can be served with the main course.
