A barbecue without onions is like pizza without cheese. Marinated onion for barbecue gives the dish a unique flavor. To diversify the taste of taking kebab, you can use various recipes for pickling onions.

Pickled onion to a barbecue

Marinating allows you to remove onion bitterness, while leaving it juicy and crispy. Cooking time often plays a major role, so a quick recipe is in the piggy bank of almost every housewife.

Essential Ingredients:

  • 2 medium onions;
  • 1/4 cup vinegar 9%;
  • 1 tbsp salts;
  • 2 tbsp Sahara.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Chopped onions and scald with boiling water.
  2. Dissolve dry components in a glass of hot water, add vinegar.
  3. Pour chopped onion with the resulting solution. Leave on for 30-60 minutes.

According to this recipe, the onion turns out to be juicy, crispy and will well complement the dish of any barbecue.

How to marinate in vinegar

Vinegar occupies a leading position in the preparation of marinade. Onions marinated in vinegar have a characteristic sourness, but you can completely get rid of onion bitterness using a hot marinade.

We offer a recipe for cooking pickled onions in a hot way.

You will need:

  • medium-sized onions - 3-4 pcs.;
  • vinegar 9% - 7 tbsp. l .;
  • sugar - 3 tbsp. l .;
  • salt - 0.5 tbsp. l .;
  • water - 1 cup.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Peel the onions and cut them in a favorite way - with rings, large or small pieces. Place in a container that is tightly closed by a lid.
  2. Boil water, during heating, dry components can be dissolved in it, vinegar can be added.
  3. Pour the marinade into the bowl with onions, close the lid. Wait for the product to cool completely. Drain the marinade, the onion is ready to eat.

Crispy vegetable with tender sourness without a hint of bitterness is ideal for chicken skewers.

With lemon juice

Many housewives replace vinegar with citric acid or juice, especially when the barbecue is consumed by children. Citric acid is a more gentle component than vinegar.

 

We offer a recipe for pickled onions to barbecue using lemon juice.

You will need:

  • onion - 2 pcs.;
  • lemon - 1 pc.;
  • salt - 0.5 tsp;
  • sugar - 0.5 tsp;
  • sunflower oil - 2 tsp;
  • ground black pepper - on the tip of a spoon.

Cooking sequence:

  1. Peel the onions and thinly chop, sprinkle with black pepper.
  2. Without peeling the lemon, grate to obtain lemon peel, about 0.5 tsp., Cut the remaining lemon in half and squeeze the juice from it.
  3. In warm water with a volume of about half a cup add dry ingredients, sunflower oil, lemon juice and zest, mix thoroughly.
  4. Put the onion at the bottom of a deep plate and pour the marinade so that the onion completely disappears under a layer of liquid.
  5. After 30 minutes, the crispy vegetable is ready to eat.

Citric acid or juice can be used when marinating kebabs, thereby eliminating the presence of vinegar in the finished dish.

With chopped dill

When pickling onions, dry spices and seasonings are often used, but it is the green herbs that give the dish a fresh taste that resembles summer.

Recipe for pickled onions with dill.

For cooking you will need:

  • onion - 3 pcs.;
  • vinegar 9% - 6-7 tbsp. l .;
  • green dill - 100 g;
  • salt - 1 tsp;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • water - 1 cup.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Peel and chop onions.
  2. Wash the dill, dry, chop, add to the onion.
  3. Dissolve sugar, salt in water, add vinegar.
  4. Mix all the ingredients and refrigerate for 8-12 hours.

You can use any green herbs, for example, parsley, basil, as well as all possible dry spices. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise you can completely ruin the taste of the finished dish.

Red onion marinated in barbecue

To give the finished dish not only taste, but also aesthetic, red onions are used, but in the process of processing the onion partially loses its color. If the dish needs to be decorated with colored onions, but it is not at hand, then the next recipe will stain even the white onion in the desired pink-red color.

You will need:

  • onions - 3 pcs.;
  • wine, apple or ordinary vinegar - 7 tbsp. l .;
  • beets - 1 pc.;
  • salt - 1 tsp;
  • sugar - 1 tbsp. l .;
  • water - 1 cup;
  • black pepper.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Peel the beets, grate.
  2. Peel the onions, cut into thin rings.
  3. Dissolve sugar with salt in water, bring to a boil. Add pepper, vinegar, mix everything thoroughly.
  4. Add the marinade to the beets, soak until the marinade is stained in beet color, then drain the marinade.
  5. Mix the onion with the dyed marinade, leave the solution in the solution overnight for better color reproduction. Before use, drain the marinade.

Colored onions will decorate the finished dish with bright colors, give it not only a beautiful look, but also a unique taste, especially using wine or apple vinegar in the recipe.

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In pomegranate juice

You can marinate the onion for barbecue in pomegranate juice. At the same time, light onion varieties are painted in a pleasant pink-red color. The bitterness and onion smell are completely removed.

Ingredients for cooking:

  • onions of white varieties (red can also) - 2-3 pcs.;
  • pomegranate - 2-3 pcs.

Step-by-step instruction:

  1. Peel pomegranate, squeeze juice out of grains. For a marinade you will need about a glass of juice. You can not use juice from bottles, it contains sugar, and acidity is regulated by citric acid.
  2. Peel the onion, cut into rings as thin as possible. Pour the resulting pomegranate juice, tamping tightly so that the onion disappears under a layer of juice.
  3. Leave in the cold for at least 12 hours.

If you are not afraid to experiment, then over time you can find your favorite recipe for barbecue and pickled onions to it. At the same time, you can limit yourself to a quick recipe for cooking, and for special occasions, keep in reserve the original way of pickling onions to impress guests with their culinary abilities.

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