Red Onion Pickles

At our recent Simple Living Toowoomba morning tea and swap, David brought along a couple of  bottles of pickled onions that he had made so we had a taste test on some crackers and they well and truly passed the test. I thought I would give the recipe a try as the pickles were a little different from the norm as David had used sliced red onions.

 

 David's Pickled Onion

 The mandolin attachment on my fake Nicer Dicer came in handy for these pickles as they cut the onion very finely. You do need to be very careful when using a mandolin though.

 

I asked Margy our co-ordinator, (who is David's wife) for the recipe so here it is if you would like to give it a try:

 

Red Pickled Onions 

1-2 red onions

3 tbsp white wine vinegar

3 tbsp sugar

Salt

Slice up the onion and put it in a saucepan with the vinegar, sugar and salt.  Bring this up to the boil, then remove from the heat and leave it for about 5 minutes to cool down and infuse.  If you want it a little softer leave it on the boil a little longer.    

 
I only had red wine vinegar and raw sugar on hand so used that but David used white wine vinegar and white sugar in his pickles but they still seemed to taste quite yummy nevertheless.

If you give it a try let me know how it turned out and whether you liked it. It is something a little different isn't it?