When you don’t like to eat a certain food you have the tendency to not to use it at all- even f a recipe calls for it. For me, one of those foods is raw onions, so I realized that I needed to change my taste buds. I would never add them to a tossed salad, a Greek salad, on top of a burger or any other recipe that called for raw onions. I did some research on how to change a raw onion taste and bingo I found the answer. The salad below is excellent and it uses raw onions. I marinate them.
Mixed Salad
The salad is easy and delicious. I used cherry tomatoes cut in half instead of a tomato cut into wedges. Fresh lime juice is important to the taste and you may need to add more at the end. The secret is to marinate the onion.
Cured onion is marinated red onion used as a condiment. This is a delicious way to mellow the flavour of raw onion.
1 red onion, peeled
1 Tbsp fine sea salt
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
Cut onion in half. Slice each half as thinly as possible into strips. Rinse. Thoroughly rub salt into the onion strips. Let sit for at least 15 minutes. Rinse onion several times to remove excess salt. Squeeze out water. Add lime juice and marinate at least 20 minutes, then use:
1 red onion
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1/4 pound Romaine lettuce, cut in thin strips (I used about 1/2 head of Romaine)
1 avocado, peeled and cubed
1 tomato, cut into wedges
1 Tbsp olive oil
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1 Tbsp chopped fresh cilantro
1/2 tsp salt, pepper to taste
CURE onion. Then mix altogether.
Cucumber and Tomato Salad
1 red onion
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
1 English cucumber, sliced into thin half moons
1 tomato, cut into wedges
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp minced fresh cilantro
1 Tbsp fresh lime juice
Cure onion. Then mix altogether.
