Easy, Sweet Quick Pickled Onions
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Easy, Sweet Quick Pickled Onions
Description
"Easy, Sweet Quick Pickled Onions" involves thinly slicing a medium red onion and placing it with garlic cloves and optional red pepper flakes into a jar. A pickling solution of white or apple cider vinegar, water, sugar, and kosher salt is heated until sugar and salt dissolve and then poured hot over the onions. The mixture is allowed to cool to room temperature and then refrigerated for at least 30 minutes to quick-pickle the onions.
The resulting pickled onions balance sweetness from sugar with the acidity of vinegar, enhanced by garlic's pungency and mild pungent heat from red pepper flakes if used. The texture remains crisp due to the quick pickle method, suitable for topping sandwiches, salads, or tacos.
This quick method allows preparation in under an hour with minimal hands-on time and yields sweet, tangy pickled onions ready for various dishes.
Ingredients
- 1 red onion medium sized, sliced thinly
- 2 garlic can be minced or whole, cloves
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes optional
- 1 cup white vinegar can substitute with apple cider vinegar, distilled
- 1 cup water
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Slice the onions as thinly as possible - I typically use sharp cuts on my knife or a mandoline slicer. Place garlic, red pepper flakes, and sliced onions in a jar with a tight fitting lid
- Add the vinegar, water, sugar, and salt in a small saucepan over low to medium heat and heat - keep stirring until the sugar and salt dissolve completely (this takes about 1-2 minutes depending on your stove).
- Pour this liquid into the jar with the onions, and let it cool down to room temperature (about 10 minutes) and then chill in the fridge, at least 30 minutes. Your pickled onions are ready to go!
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 16servings
Amount Per Serving
Calories 15 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 15kcal | 1% |
| Carbohydrates | 3g | 1% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 1g | 2% |
| Saturated Fat | 1g | 5% |
| Sodium | 149mg | 6% |
| Potassium | 12mg | 0% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 3g | 6% |
| Vitamin A | 37IU | 1% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 3mg | 0% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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