VEGAN CANNED ONIONS

[VEGAN CANNED ONIONS]

...this is one of Julia's rare English titled recipes...and she has this to say about these onions...All the brands of canned “small boiled onions” we have tried have tasted, to us, rather unpleasantly sweetish and overacidulated; they also need more cooking to make them tender. However they are so useful in an emergency that we offer the following treatment which improves them considerably....

...I got this $8.99 jar of cocktail onions at Amazon...as they had only a few ingredients...a couple of them being acidic...so I thought they'd be similar...

...the first thing you do is to rinse the onions...

...and then you boil them for a minute and drain them again...

...then I made vegan beef bouillon and an herb bouquet in my tea ball...thyme, parsley, and bay leaf...

...and vegan butter of course...

...put all of that back in the pot and cook for about 15 minutes or so until the onions are very tender...and the liquid is mostly evaporated...

...and that's it...a pretty simple recipe...

...and we served this spendy side dish with veggie burgers on buns and air fried potatoes...it was good like that...it complimented the veggie burgers well...mine onion had dijon mustard and lettuce on it...

Substitutions

vegan butter...and vegan bouillon...

Recipe here: Mastering the Art of French Cooking (p. 484)