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Sweet-and-Sour Onions

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 6

Ingredients

1 pound little pickling onions or shallots
3–4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons wine vinegar
1 tablespoon sugar
2 tablespoons golden raisins
Salt and pepper
2 teaspoons dried mint (optional)

Preparation

  1. Peel the onions (one way is to plunge them for a few seconds in boiling water until the skins come off easily). Put them in a pan with the oil, and sauté, shaking the pan to brown them lightly all over. Add the rest of the ingredients and a little water, and cook, covered, over low heat for about 20 minutes, or until soft, adding more water if necessary.

Cover of Claudia Roden's The New Book of Middle Easter Food, featuring a blue filigree bowl filled with Meyer lemons and sprigs of mint.
Reprinted with permission from The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, copyright © 2000 by Claudia Roden, published by Knopf. Buy the full book on Amazon or Bookshop.
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