Braised White Onions

Preparation info
  • FFR—

    6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1997

  • About

These sweet little onions can be prepared as a garnish for any meat or in any savory pie, or mixed with any other boiled or braised vegetables.

Ingredients

  • 1 pound small silverskin onions
  • tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

Method

Drop the unpeeled onions in boiling water, remove the pot from the heat, and let stand 1 minute. Drop the onions into cold water until cool enough to handle, then squeeze them out of their skins. Cut off any trace of roots and cut a tiny cross in the root end of each onion so that moisture can penetrate evenly on both sides of the vegetable; this keeps the onions from breaking open while cookin