to ask you to solve my pickled onion problem? I have three jars of the fuckers

[Greensleeves]

What can I do with a large quantity of pickled onions? I am trying to use up all my Christmas food without wasting it, but we simply are not going to eat three jars of pickled onions! Is there anything I can cook them in that won't just taste entirely of vinegar?

Have just made turkey, veg, stuffing and cranberry pasties with the last of the Christmas turkey :)

@ycochyn - send them to me along with OPs pickled onions!

they'd be gone in a week in this house!

Where did all these pickled onions come from? Were they gifts? If so, do not clear the shelves quickly or your gifter will think "she must love them!" and you will end up with twice the quantity being gifted next year and forever after.

They won't taste of vinegar OP - if you like you can rinse them :)

Foodbank.

Just try a few in your hotpot see if you like it the vinegar just cooks in.

They work as a good alternative to ordinary onions in lots of dishes: soups, pasta sauces, casseroles... Basically anything that cooked for a while and/or gets blended, rather than dishes where you just fry them. You can also give them a rinse if you are worried about the vinegar taste.

Throw them into casseroles or make a batch of onion chutney.

Why is foodbank always suggested? Like of your on the bones of your backside, needing a good decent meal do you really want a jar of pickled onions? That’s going to feed your dc isn’t it 🙄

OP a few in a stew can be nice (rinse them if you are worrying about the vinegar taste)

They will keep so leave them in the cupboard, not the kind of food to go out of date quickly

As PP say - rinse the onions to get rid of the vinegar and include them in stews/casseroles/soups or pate spreads you make (e.g., chicken liver) tho' you could just blitz them into a pate you have to make it go further.

I made cauliflower pickles over the weekend and used up some silver skin onions in that.

Make onion chutney.

Or find ways to add them to things you usually eat. For eg I would chop the onions finely and add to chopped cucumber then order some cucumber raita and mango chutney when you next get a takeaway curry and have the delicious mix with poppadoms! I love finely chopped pickled onions in salads and sandwiches like a PP suggested.

Why is foodbank always suggested? Like of your on the bones of your backside, needing a good decent meal do you really want a jar of pickled onions? That’s going to feed your dc isn’t it

Why do people always make comments like this? It's not like anyone is expecting anyone to only eat the pickled onions, only that they will be made available to anyone who wants them.

I would expect that the pickled onions would end up on the 'help yourself' shelf rather than in the basic food packs. Someone who hasn't had any extras/treats might want them, or a pregnant woman with a craving. And pickled onions probably count as one of your five a day, and foodbank food often seems to be lacking in veg.

OP I would definitely say you could use cranberry sauce instead of redcurrant jelly in that recipe, but with pickled onions I would either save while next year (move to somewhere else if no room in the kitchen) or have with pork pie, cheese, apple, salad etc for a ploughman's lunch.

I think cranberry sauce would work! If you make it do let me know if it works, I have never been brave enough to try the recipe.

I realise I'm going completely the other way and potentially making it worse - but I don't half recommend these pickled onions - www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/271239741

They are incredible - especially on a salad in the summer.

I say save them for Brexit too.

Oh my god I would eat them! Bit of cheese and a pickled onion....mmmmm.

@Greensleeves there's a slimming world soup recipe that uses pickled onions.

It's tomato soup and it's meant to taste like Heinz tomato soup.

Have a google

I'm so having crackers cheese and pickled onions for tea now

Keep them until an occasion and have a cheese and wine party, pickles on the side!

I saw someone on tv once use them in a stew, they just rinsed them first.

Blimey send them here. DH ate a large jars of pickled onions, half a jar of piccalilly, a massive jar of pickled gherkins and a big jar of pickled eggs on his own this Christmas in two weeks.

I can't eat them as the vinegar gives me heartburn but DH easily polishes off a jar of pickled onions in a week if you let him!

They're really nice roasted.

Chop them all down and make them into a tomato and onion chutney. You won't need to add vinegar. Very nice to just keep in the cupboard to have with crackers, pate, cheese, crisps etc.

Eat them with all your leftover cheese.

Save them and use them for next year’s secret Santa.

The vinegar from them is great on chips. You get the flavour of the onion coming through.