Melia Marden

Pickled Red Onions

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1 quart

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Modern Mediterranean
Modern Mediterranean

By Melia Marden

Published 2013

  • About

Red onions are intensely flavorful—sweet and pungent, with a crisp, clean texture. Since raw onion, unfortunately, has a lingering aftertaste, I make these pickles to mellow that sharpness while infusing the onions with warm spice notes. You can use them in place of raw onion in salads and on sandwiches.

Ingredients

  1. 3 medium red onion(s) (about 1 ½ pounds / 680 grams)
  2. 1 cup

Method

  1. Peel and halve the onions lengthwise. Thinly slice the halves through the root ends into wedges about ¼ inch (6 millimeters) thick and set aside.
  2. In a saucepan, combine the r