BOTTLED RED ONIONS
Simmer the following ingredients in a pot on the stove:
500 ml white vinegar
500 ml water
250 ml white sugar
10 ml salt
5 ml coarse pepper or pepper corns
10 ml mixed spices
Pickle onions *
Peel onions and once water mixture has simmered for 15 minutes, add onions and simmer for 20 minutes.
Bottle in warm, clean bottles.
It’s kind off sweet, sour but awfully nice.
* Note: sorry man, ek skat net, if I’ve peeled too many onions I make more vinegar, or too little onions, I bottle and refrigerate the left overs and use when I get cucumbers and use that vinegar again to make sweet sour gherkins.
I use the same for beetroot but add 5 ml cinnamon, 5 ml ginger and 5 ml cloves. Its magic for me. Those little onions are sweet sour and on a stokkie with cocktail tomato, block of cheese, delicious.
Recipe and Photo: Jean Bezant
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