Ah, The Onion! Cooking With Green Onions

In spring, not only crocuses and snowdrops bloom. The stalls are filled with crispy bunches of green onions.

In spring, not only crocuses and snowdrops bloom. The stalls are filled with crispy bunches of green onions. Feathers can easily be grown on the windowsill, just put the bulb in a jar of water. Green onions are an excellent ingredient and seasoning for salads, hot dishes, appetizers, soups, and baked goods. Introducing simple and incredibly delicious dishes with onions.

Salad of white cabbage, cucumber, onion and tomato

 

Ingredients:

1/2 head of fresh cabbage bunch of green onions 2-3 cucumbers 2 tomatoes 2 tbsp. tablespoons olive oil salt

Chop the cabbage, cut the washed cucumbers and tomatoes into strips. Chop the onion. Mix all ingredients in a bowl with salt and olive oil.

Omelette with greens

 

A fluffy, tender and satisfying omelet is prepared according to a step-by-step recipe, which you will find here. And the finishing touch to the omelet will be a handful of chopped green onions. Great snack!

Eggs with mayonnaise and green onions

 

Guests on the doorstep? Boil hard-boiled eggs, peel, cut in half. For each half, put a spoonful of your favorite mayonnaise, preferably homemade. Sprinkle green onions on top. Simple and incredibly delicious!

Step by step recipe for stuffed boiled eggs >>>

Sandwich with cottage cheese, radish, cucumber and onion

 

Ingredients:

bread, slices 200 g cottage cheese 2-3 tbsp. spoons of sour cream or natural yogurt clove of garlic salt, pepper cucumber 4-5 radishes a few green onion feathers

Mix the cottage cheese with a fork with sour cream or yogurt, squeeze the garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Cut the washed radish, cucumber and onion. Spread a piece of bread with cottage cheese, put radish and cucumber rings on top, sprinkle with onions. 

Onion salad with sour cream

 

Classics of the genre! With fried potatoes or meat - that's it! Chop the onion, sprinkle with salt and season with sour cream.

Fried champignons with onions

 

A quick and easy appetizer or side dish.

Ingredients:

300-400 g mushrooms Salt, pepper A bunch of green onions 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil

Cut the mushrooms into plates and fry in oil in a pan until the liquid evaporates. Salt, pepper to taste. Sprinkle with chopped green onions and serve with mashed potatoes or as an appetizer on its own.

Okroshka

 

On a hot day, cook okroshka - with an abundance of greens, delicious sausage, vegetables, an egg. On kvass or kefir, as you wish. Do not spare greens and onions! 

A step-by-step recipe for making the original okroshka in bread is here >>>

Mashed potatoes with herbs

 

Ingredients:

5 medium potatoes A few sprigs of thyme A bunch of parsley A small bunch of green onions 1/2 cup milk 1/4 cup cream 70 g butter Salt, pepper 

Wash potatoes, peel and cut into large cubes. Put in a saucepan, cover with water and salt. Bring to a boil, then lower the heat and simmer for 20 minutes. The potato will be ready when the fork is free to enter into it. While the potatoes are cooking, blend the chopped parsley and onion with 1/4 cup milk in a blender. Drain the cooked potatoes in a colander, select the thyme, then place in a bowl. Pour the remaining milk, cream, butter into the pan where the potatoes were boiled. Heat over low heat, stirring until butter is melted. Mash the potatoes in a bowl with a potato masher and add to the milk-butter mixture. Stir, turn off the heat and add the green puree. Season with pepper and salt to taste. Stir.

holodnik

 

Cold soup in this version is most often cooked in Lithuania.

You will need:

a large bunch of green onions 2 medium boiled beets 1 long cucumber or 2-3 short ones salt dill 3 boiled eggs a liter of thick yogurt

Cut the onion, put it in a saucepan, add a good pinch of salt and rub it with a spoon. We do this so that the bow "does not float" on top. Peel and cut the cucumber, add to the onion and mix. Peel and grate the boiled beets, put in a saucepan. Pour in kefir and stir. Pour into bowls. Add a couple sprigs of dill and a quarter of a boiled egg to each serving. Serve with boiled hot potatoes.

Beetroot recipe on bread kvass >>>

Jellied pie with onions

 

Ingredients:

1 1/4 cups flour 150 g butter 2 eggs 2 tbsp. tablespoons grated Parmesan 1/2 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup cottage cheese 4 tbsp. spoons of cold water 1 tsp. dried oregano 1/4 tsp. salt a bunch of green onions

Beat flour, salt, oregano with pieces of butter with a mixer until coarse crumbs. Add water and knead the dough. Wrap the dough with cling film and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour. Then roll out and lay out a 24-26 cm form, be sure to form the sides. Pour peas on the base and bake for 12-15 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 210 degrees. Then choose peas and cool in the form.

Beat cottage cheese, cream, eggs until light foam. Pour the mixture into the tart, top with Parmesan and top with the onion flakes (sliced ​​or whole). Bake for 20-25 minutes at a temperature of 210-220 degrees. Hold for another 5 minutes in the form, then you can serve. 

Potato salad with mayonnaise and green onions

 

Ingredients:

6-7 small potatoes mayonnaise salt a bunch of green onions

Boil potatoes (preferably young) in their skins with salt. Mayonnaise, if desired, can be mixed with a clove of garlic passed through a press. Put warm potatoes on a dish, season with mayonnaise and sprinkle with chopped onions.

More potato salads:

Czech brambor salad >>>

Royal Potato Salad >>>