am knee-deep in onions......

[Coolmama]

.... so do any of you lovely MNers have a good pickling recipe for me?

[mummyhill]

my nan has a good one will ask her about it but not seeing her till tuesday and she doesn't like the phone.

[spiceoflife]

Dont have a pickling recipe but have a lovely tart recipe if interested

[Frizbe]

I'd like the tart recipe please!

[Coolmama]

I will take any ideas, recipes or inspiration - like I said, am knee-deep in the blasted things and if I make any more onion soup I will gag ( which is saying a lot because I love onion soup!!)

[Carmenere]

I would make onion marmelade and have it for the rest of the year. It's particularly good with goats cheese.

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

I wonder if you could freeze them? if you chopped and lightly fried them and bagged them into portions you could use them for cooking. You freeze them in things like spag bol, so I don;t see why you couldn't do this. do you have an allotment by any chance? we're knee deep in courgettes from fil's allotment. can't stand them!

[Carmenere]

Here is a recipe.hth.

[LucyCampCat]

ooh yes onion chutney is great - if you put it in fancy jars you can give it away as Christmas presents too, it'll be just right in a few months time.

[LucyCampCat]

ooh send your courgettes this way - ours have just about finished and I love them.

[Carmenere]

I think Hats idea of freezing is good too. I would also make chutney.

[Coolmama]

The onion marmalade sounds very yummy - thank you for all the tips!

[spiceoflife]

Right I actually have two tart recipes I do...

1. Preheat hot oven. Line pit plate with bought pastry. Saute a couple of large onions and a clove or two of crushed garlic until onion transparent. Stir in a teaspoon of cumin and half of a teaspoon oreganum and about 300g cooked diced potato. Mix well and remove when taties are sizzling. Whisk 3 eggs, 1/4c milk and pinch salt with fork, add to potato and onion and pour into pastry. Sprinkle iwth grated cheese and a dash or paprika and bake 20mins until pastry golden and filling set.
   
   2.Peel several onions and cut in half or thirds width ways. Roast with a drizzle of oil for 15-20mins in hot oven. Roll 200g bought or made pastry thinly and put in pie dish. Mix 1/4c sour cream, an egg, 1/4c milk, pinch salt, 1/2tsp caraway seeds or 1/4tsp nutmeg until thoroughly combined. arrange onions in pie case and pour over liquid. Liquid should just have bits of onion peeeking out, bake 20mins or until evenly brown and set.

[MarsLady]

Yes you can freeze them. I do that sometimes, chop up a load of onions, put them into bags and freeze them. Then when I'm cooking I open the bag and tip some in. Great for lazy cooking.

I agree about the onion marmalade. Tastes gorgeous with steak............ oooh yum!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Coolmama]

that's great! - thank you! I've also just realised I should probably try to hunt down a recipe for pissaladiere! would be perfect

[MarsLady]

a recipe for what?

[Coolmama]

Hi Marslady - pissaladiere is a typical French Provencale onion, olive and anchovy tart and is delicious hot or cold - (can't believe I forogt all about it - am a total dimwit)
also - do you freeze your chopped onions raw?

[MarsLady]

Yes I freeze my onions raw and can I have the recipe please? That sounds so so delicious. Right up my street. I'm off to the farmers market tomorrow where I'll be getting lots of onions.

[Coolmama]

HAve a loook at delia which is the one I tried - except I cheated and just used bought puff pastry - worked fine.
Alternatively you can just google and will get veariations on the theme.
Also - the onion marmalade was very good, but very very sweet - so the next time I make it I might just halve the sugar and then add more slowly if needed.