How to Make Pickled Red Onions

I keep on making things that when I think about it, would be enhanced with some pickled red onions. Bean soup, liverwurst, salmon, and especially hot dogs and hamburgers would all be terrific with some pickled onions on the side.

All you really need to make pickled red onions is some sliced red onion, vinegar and sugar. There’s lots of leeway with the spices and herbs used.

For this batch I used cinnamon, cloves, star anise, bay leaf and red pepper flakes. You could easily thrown in some ginger, swap out the chile flakes for some cumin, or allspice for the cloves.

How to Make Pickled Red Onions

Ingredients

• 1 lb red onions (about 2 med or 1 large), thinly sliced
• 1 1/2 cups white vinegar
• 1/2 cup sugar

Spices

• 1/2 cinnamon stick
• 5 cloves
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 star anise
• Dash red pepper flakes

More spices (optional): Fresh ginger slices, allspice berries, oregano, garlic, cumin seeds, mustard seeds

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