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    Home » Side Dishes & Snacks

    How To Make Quick Pickled Red Onions

    Published: Jul 4, 2022 by Chef Tripti · This post may contain affiliate links

    There are many ways to make pickled red onions. The method I present here is the easiest and fastest. It's my lazy, quick pickled red onions recipe! No cooking, waiting for the vinegar to cool, or the pickling process to complete before using. The best part is that it uses only two ingredients. What's my secret? It's malt vinegar. Malt vinegar gives these onions a tangy/lemony/nutty/caramel flavour. Using malt vinegar means you don't need to add salt or sugar.

    close up of a jar of pickled red onion

    If you like pickled foods, then give my pickled green walnuts or pickled green wild plums a go!

    Jump to:
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions For Making Pickled Red Onions
    • How-To Video
    • Variations
    • Storage
    • Top tip
    • 📖 Recipe

    Ingredients

    Ingredients for pickled red onion in small glass dishes. Sliced Red onion and malt vinegar
    • Red onion
    • Malt vinegar

    See the recipe card for quantities.

    Instructions For Making Pickled Red Onions

    Close up of thinly sliced red onion in a jar

    Thinly and evenly slice the red onions. Place inside a sterilised jar.

    Pouring malt vinegar into a jar containing thinly sliced red onion

    Pour over the malt vinegar. Leave for two hours.

    The picked red onion tastes even better after a day

    How-To Video

    Here is a video guide to making this pickled red onions recipe.

    Variations

    There are so many ways to make pickled onions; this one tastes best with malt vinegar. If, however, you cant find it where you are, you can replace it with cider vinegar. You may need to add a bit of sugar to balance the acidity.

    Storage

    The pickled onions keep for about two weeks. After this, they lose their crunch and colour.

    Sterilising the jars, you use to store the pickled onion properly is essential. To do this, firstly wash the jar with hot soapy water. Then place in an oven at 100ºC for thirty minutes. A properly sterilised jar will help prevent the formation of mould.

    Top tip

    Make sure that the thickness of your onions slices is even; this will ensure that the pickling process is even too.

    📖 Recipe

    Close up of a jar of pickled red onion.

    Pickled Red Onions Recipe

    Chef Tripti
    A super-simple method for making pickled onion using just two ingredients
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    Prep Time 5 mins
    Cook Time 0 mins
    Pickling Time 2 hrs
    Total Time 2 hrs 5 mins
    Course Side Dish
    Servings 1 Jar

    Ingredients
      

    • 50 gms Red Onion Sliced
    • 25 gms Malt vinegar

    Instructions
     

    • Slice the red onions evenly. Place them inside a sterilised jar and pour over the malt vinegar. 
    • In two hours, your pickled onions are ready. They get better after a day.
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