What is Red Onion Orange Salad?
In the summer, my body almost craves fresh fruits and vegetables. I wanted to create a salad that combined all those flavors my body craved, without taking a long time in the kitchen chopping and preparing. I loved the idea of pickled onions in a salad, but I’d never made them before. But then I decided to just get in the kitchen and try it. What I have to do to create a recipe is to eat the dish (several times, for research you understand). Then I get into the kitchen and start to grab things off the shelf and it almost seems like a different part of my brain takes over at that time. My hands know what to reach for, in a way my brain can’t always verbalize. I seem to know instinctively what will work. I mean. Most of the times I do. Not always! But the more I cook, the easier this process becomes.
How do you make pickled onions?
I have realized that the process of quick-pickling vegetable is essentially the same. Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, and some kind of seasoning herb/spice. No really. That’s really all pickled vegetables have in them. Where you get to play is the type of vinegar and the type of spice/seasoning. There’s something about the acidic, tart, vinegary, sweet taste that just fills your mouth with a variety of flavors all at once. I always thought it was really hard to make pickled onions. I think I will try to make pickled beets, pickled ginger, and pickled carrots one of these days soon.
How do you make Red Onion Orange Salad?
VARIATIONS ON THIS RED ONION ORANGE SALAD:
Kinds of vinegar: Apple cider, white vinegar, rice vinegar, chili vinegarOranges: blood oranges, starfruit, pomelo, grapefruit, tart Granny Smith applesCheese: blue cheese, stilton, gorgonzola, queso frescoAdditions: Nuts, baby spinach leaves
Other easy and delicious salads you may want to try
Keto Big Mac SaladBeet SaladIndian No-Cook Raw Mango Onion Chutney
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