Today on The Stay At Home Chef
I'm showing you how to make
Pickled Red Onions
Making pickled red onions is actually super
easy
Today I'm going to show you how to make
basic pickled red onions as well as give you
a number of flavor options that you can mix
and match
to customize the red onions to your own
personal taste preferences
Pickled red onions are great on tacos, in
salads
and pretty much anywhere you'd have a regular
red onion
but instead they're pickled and have that
extra bite of zingy flavor
To start we'll head on over to the stove
Pour 1 1/2 cups of white vinegar into a small
saucepan
And then you'll need 2 tablespoons of sugar
which you can leave out if you're watching
your sugar
and 1 tablespoon of salt
and we're going to bring this to a simmer
I like to add the sugar because it makes your
pickled red onions a lot more interesting
You have that contrast of flavor between
sweet, salty, and that zingy zip of the vinegar
Once it comes to a boil you'll want to remove
it from the heat
and set that aside for just a second
Then you're going to need 1 sliced red onion
and I like to slice mine on the thin side
You want to stuff your onion and all the little
slices
into a mason jar
You want to press them down in there nice
and tight
One red onion should fit in there quite nicely
Then we're going to take our hot liquid
and pour it right over our red onions in there
Fill it all the way to the top
Now at this point you have yourself simple
pickled red onions
You can just screw a lid on
let it cool to room temperature
and pop it in the fridge
but I wanted to show you different flavor
options
you can use to spice things up.
I have some fresh thyme leaves
some fresh rosemary
some garlic cloves
a hot habanero pepper
some black peppercorns
some whole cumin seed
and some whole allspice berries
These are all great flavor combinations
to pair with the pickled red onions
You can do each individually or you can mix
and match
This first one I'm going to keep nice and
simple
and add about 1/2 teaspoon of black peppercorns
Just put on the lid
and then I just give it a little shake to
mix up those black peppercorns
and that's it
this is a really simple pickled red onion
Now this next one I'm going to keep simple
as well
and you can see I don't have the liquid in
yet
but I'm going to tuck in those thyme leaves
and then I'm going to pour more hot liquid
on top
It's a lot easier on some of these to add
the liquid last
Then we'll pop the lid on
With some of these it's just easier to add
the
ingredients in first rather than try and burn
yourself
tucking them in later
This next one is a bit of a Mexican inspired
flavor profile
I'm going to add in 1 teaspoon of whole cumin
seeds
3 cloves of garlic and you want to use whole
garlic
Then I'm going to tuck in a habanero pepper
as well
to add a little bit of spicy heat
and pour the liquid right over the top
And of course it's totally okay if you spill
because you should have enough extra
And that's it for that one
The next one I'm going to add some garlic
again
Get those tucked in there
as well as some fresh sprigs of rosemary
so we have a little bit of rosemary garlic
going on
Once again just fill it up with the pickling
juice
pop a lid on
and there you go
a cute little jar of pickled red onions
with a rosemary garlic infusion
Sounds delicious
For this last one, we'll keep it simple
and add about 10 whole dried allspice berries
and that's it
Give that one a little shake too and that's
it!
5 different ways to make pickled red onions
so that you can keep everything nice and flavorful
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