There is a set of recipes of how to soak onions. Use of various accompanying components allows to reach various shades of taste of onions, but in most cases soaking pursues the aim to make this burning vegetable softer.
It is required to you
- onions
- knife for the shredder
- vinegar
- lemon juice
- ware for soaking.
Instruction
1. Define whether it is required to soak onions, it is possible already at its shredder. Sweet grades emit less sharp juice, and they in salad can be used in pure form, having cut with rings. When onions taste bitter, the easiest way to make it softer is to fill in it with boiled water and to leave in it for several seconds. Then onions are washed with usual cold water, being slightly wrung out by hands. The taste at it remains invariable, however the sharpness significantly decreases.
2. The traditional and habitual product is the onions soaked in vinegar. It is possible to use for this purpose table 9% vinegar or apple. In order that onions were evenly kept waiting, it is crushed and filled in with liquid so that it completely covered onions. Time of soaking depends on flavoring preferences, from one hour to the whole night. Usually for similar long term onions are soaked together with meat for a shish kebab. Vinegar gives to onions softness and light sourness. If after that onions are used for preparation of salad, then it is possible to wash it from surplus of vinegar with water or to put in original state, but then the smack of vinegar will remain.
3. To taste the soaked onions for which pickling lemon juice is used turn out original. On one bulb of the average size the juice which is squeezed out of a lemon half suffices. To simplify process a juice otzhatiya, lemon pulp repeatedly is punctured a knife or a fork then juice can be been hit at simple compression of fruit in palms. Stones from a lemon clean up as will separate them from onions not absolutely conveniently subsequently. Rings of onions two-three millimeters thick are filled in with lemon juice and promeshivatsya evenly. It is possible to use onions for further preparation in an hour.