Christmas is in less than one month and Sonia cooks a side dish which goes well with any dish on your holiday table: the sweet and sour onions!
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Welcome to the GialloZafferano kitchen, I am Sonia. Today we’ll be preparing together a very easy and tasty side dish: the sweet & sour onions.
Let’s see what ingredients we’ll need:
• 1 lb (500 g) of peeled small onions
• 4 tbsp (50 ml) of balsamic vinegar
• 7 tsp (30 g) of sugar • 2 tbsp (30 g) of butter
• salt
Well, let’s go make our sweet & sour onions:
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Now add the sugar, and cook until slightly golden brown.
As you can see, the bottom of our saucepan is turning light brown. So, add the balsamic vinegar.
Stir and let it evaporate a bit … after that, we’ll add the onions.
Now that the balsamic vinegar has reduced a bit, add the onions.
Stir… then let it simmer with a lid on. In all, the onions should take at least 40 minutes to cook on a low flame. After half the cooking time, check if you need to add some hot water or vegetable broth.
40 min. — low heat
After about 20-25 minutes, as you can see, the onions have dried out a bit and the liquid has thickened, so you need to add a ladle of hot water or vegetable broth, as you prefer. Then let them simmer uncovered, until the onions are cooked. The cooking time depends on the size of the onions, so remember to check them.
A few minutes before removing the onions from the heat, add some salt. As you can see, they should look quite dry.
At this point, put them in a dish… and serve together with roast meat or fish.
From Sonia and GialloZafferano, bye bye… and see you next video recipe!