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instant pickled onions

Instant pickled onions

Quick pickles, flavoured with thyme & bay

instant pickled onions

30 mins
Not Too Tricky

makes two 1-litre jars

About the recipe

This is a cheat’s version as you can eat these right away, although it’s worth waiting a week or two for the flavours to become the best of friends. Perfect on a British cheese sarnie or ploughman’s platter.


nutrition per serving

Calories

g

Fat

0

Saturates

g

Sugars

g

Salt

g

Protein

g

Carbs

g

Fibre

of an adult’s reference intake


Recipe From

Jamie Magazine

Jamie Magazine

By Jamie Oliver

Ingredients

500ml red wine vinegar

½ a bunch of fresh thyme

500ml white wine vinegar

4 fresh bay leaves

500g red onions

500g white onions

Method

  1. Get 2 pans and add 1 tablespoon of sea salt to each. Add the red wine vinegar and thyme to one pan and the white wine vinegar and bay to the other.
  2. Keeping the colours separate, peel and slice the onions using a food processor, or you can slice them finely with a knife.
  3. Place both pans over a high heat and bring to the boil. Place the red onions in the pan with red wine vinegar and the white onions in the other pan.
  4. Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 2 to 3 minutes, pushing the onions down with the back of a wooden spoon to stop them rising to the surface.
  5. As soon as the onions have softened, use a slotted spoon to transfer them into sterilised jars. Ladle over the vinegar, then close the lids and leave to cool. These can be eaten straight away, but if you leave them for at least 2 weeks they’ll taste even more amazing.

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