Lime-Pickled Onions

Preparation info
  • Makes

    1 pint

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Pizza Czar: Recipes and Know-How from a World-Traveling Pizza Chef

By Anthony Falco

Published 2021

  • About

This is a cool, simple Mexican technique. It’s just lime juice and water. You cover the onions with the solution and they turn beautiful bright pink. It’s a classic garnish for shrimp or carnitas tacos. They were added to the cochinita pibil–topped panuchos (tortillas stuffed with refried black beans) I had in Mexico City, and it was beautiful. These lime-pickled onions will be good on any pizza that you’re looking to add texture, color, acid, and crunch to. Many pizzas could