Fermented cocktail onions have a wonderful mellow pickled onion flavour that is great with a plate full of vareniki or in a cheese sandwich. They are perfect for parties, sliced up in salads or eaten in tacos.
Fermenting onions is a great option for anyone who finds raw onion to be too strong. The mild flavour is easy to digest, and they will last for at least a month in the fridge. They are a great replacement for any recipe calling for raw onions.
PrintPickled Cocktail Onions
Fermented cocktail onions are a delicious crisp and crunchy pickled onion, with a mellow and salty flavour. Perfect for a party, with cheese or sliced into salads.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 1 quart jar 1x
- Category: Pickles
- Method: Fermented
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Ingredients
- 12 cocktail onions or 2 large onions sliced
- Brine solution (3 tbsp non-iodized salt in 1 Lt filtered water)
- Culture (optional – see notes)
Instructions
- Cut the ends off the onions and peel them.
- Place them in a glass fermenting container with a weight to keep them submerged below the brine.
- Cover with the brine solution.
- Leave somewhere cool to ferment for 1 week.
- Store in the fridge and consume within 1-2 months.
Notes
- I always recommend being very sanitary for all your ferments, especially if you are fermenting for more that just a few days and if you are not using a starter culture.
- I usually use a mason jar
with a glass weight but it does have a risk of contamination from free range molds, yeasts and bacteria. If you are making a large amount, then I recommend using an airlock system or a fido.
- Onions are one of the vegetable ferments that don’t need a culture. If you want to use 1 tbsp of culture, I recommend either sauerkraut juice or a commercial vegetable culture
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.Keywords: party food, probiotic, gluten free, keto, vegan, paleo
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