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5 most useful recipes with onions

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Last reviewed: 01.06.2018
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Not many people know that there are simply excellent recipes with onions. Virtually everything can be cooked from this vegetable. It can be pancakes, soups, salads, pies and even cutlets.

In fact, choose it out of what. The variety of options is simply incredible. Unfortunately, not many people know about this. So, the most common way of using onions is a salad. It is enough to take cabbage, chop it finely, add onion, put oil, salt and pepper to taste. Nothing new, but fast and tasty.

If there is a desire to prepare something more satisfying, then this role is quite suitable soup. It is necessary to cook the broth with the roots. Take half carrots, a little parsley and celery. All this is cooked and filtered. Then 300 grams of chopped onion is fried in a frying pan, sprinkled with a spoonful of flour and the broth is added. All this must be extinguished for 10 minutes. Then take the onion, add it to the pan with the broth and boil for another 10 minutes. In the end everything is decorated with parsley and croutons.

This is not all the recipes, there are a lot of them, the main thing is not afraid to experiment. Because the onion can be an addition to any table.

Salad with onions

The simplest and quickest recipe is a salad from onions. To prepare this delicious dish you need to take a couple of basic ingredients, a tablespoon of vegetable oil and vinegar, sugar, salt and pepper to taste. There is nothing unusual in this salad. Onions are finely chopped, then seasoned with oil and vinegar, on top of it, you can give it the most pleasant flavor. This will help sugar, salt and pepper. Everything is thoroughly mixed together. The salad is ready, you can serve it to the table.

The second variant of the dish is slightly different from the first one. For preparation it is necessary to take a pair of heads of onions, 3 eggs, a floor of a tube of mayonnaise, greens and salt to taste. The main ingredient is peeled and cut into strips, then washed with cold water and boiled. After that you need to chop the eggs, which will be hard-boiled beforehand. Then the ingredients are mixed together, mayonnaise, salt and greens are added. Everything is mixed and fed to the table.

These are the simplest options for making salad with onions. There are more serious ways, but they require large financial costs. Presented salads are delicious and simple, because onions can give spicy dishes and make them special.

Cake with onions

Have you ever tried pie with onions? It's not too late to fix it. After all, a treat made with the use of this ingredient turns out to be incredible.

So, to please the family with a tasty and useful pie, you need to take 1.5 cups of crumb from oil crackers, 70 grams of butter (some will go to the base, and the other to roasting), 2 cups of chopped onions, a couple of eggs, 150 grams of cream, 50 grams grated cheese and a bit of ground white pepper.

First you need to heat the oven to 180 degrees. Then, in a bowl, mix the prepared crackers with the melted cream milk. Then all this is tamped to the bottom. Next, the frying pan is heated and melted 30 grams of butter, then the onion is added and fried until golden brown. When everything is ready, you need to lay the toasted vegetable on top of the cracker and oil. Meanwhile, eggs, cream, salt and pepper are mixed in a bowl. The resulting mixture is poured over the onion and then the cheese is rubbed. Bake should be about 30 minutes, until the middle of the pie does not stop being liquid. 10 minutes after cooking, you can serve the dish to the table.

A simple and delicious recipe is able to take a leading place even on a festive table. Of course, if guests like onions and are positive about it.

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Stuffed onions

A good dish is obtained if the basis is taken stuffed with onions. To cook this recipe you should buy 4 onions, 700 grams of ground beef, 200 grams of spinach, 100 grams of stale bread, 50 grams of grated cheese, coriander, salt, bottom egg and a glass of broth.

The first thing to do is to defrost the spinach. Then, cut off the onions at both ends and boil it for 15 minutes, cool and remove the inner layers. As a result, only one "corps" should remain. Then minced ground meat together with spinach, it is added egg, broth, cheese and coriander. You can add the ingredients one at a time or mix them with spinach and send it to the pan with a total mass.

In the end, it turns out, a good filling for onions. Take the boiled vegetable and put a roast in it. But that's not all, bulbs are laid out on the form, a little water is poured into them and only, then you can start baking. Literally 20 minutes at 180 degrees and a delicious dish is ready. There are not so many ingredients in the base onion, but the pleasure will be the sea.

Fritters with onions

Can I make delicious pancakes from onions? This is not even worth hesitation. As a confirmation, a good recipe for this dish will be presented below. So, for cooking, you need to take 3 bulbs, 5 tablespoons of flour, salt to taste, 200 ml of sunflower oil, 4 eggs and ground pepper.

First, you need to peel the onion and cut it as mono finer. After that, drive in eggs, add salt and black ground pepper. Then all this is mixed and flour is added to the resulting mixture. In the end, you need to get a uniform dough. Therefore, it is worthwhile to mix it thoroughly.

Then the dough is laid out on the pan and fried from two sides until golden brown. It is advisable to cook over medium heat so that nothing burns. Finished fritters are laid out on a paper towel to remove the remaining oil.

You can serve the dish both hot and warm. In any case it's very tasteful and useful. After all, onions are a source of vitamins, as well as a spicy vegetable.

Onion soup

Prepare soup from onions is simple. To do this, take 6 onion, one carrot, turnip, celery, parsley, leek, 3 tablespoons of flour, dill, a couple of yolks and 100 grams of sour cream.

The main ingredient is finely shredded and browned in oil. Then, chopped carrots, turnips, celery, parsley and leeks are added here. After all the main ingredients are roasted, you need to strain them and wipe them. After all, preparing is not just soup. The remaining filtered broth is mixed with flour and poured into previously prepared ingredients. At first glance, it may seem that it is difficult to prepare such a soup, but it is not. The main thing is to follow a certain sequence and follow the prescription exactly.

Then you need to wait until the filling starts to thicken. Only then you can add chopped dill, butter, greens and yolks mixed beforehand with sour cream. All this is once again warmed up and fed to the table. As a result, you get a delicious soup-puree, based on the onion.

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