Quick 10 minute Onion Pickle

If you like to eat onion but because of its strong taste, you skip it to add it in salads, burgers or in any toppings. Now don't. You can still enjoy nice mellow flavor of onions and its ready in 10 minutes. While you are preparing your mail dish , start making this pickle and by the time you are done with cooking your onion pickle is ready. This recipe is so versatile you can make with any vegetables, perfect for Jalapenos, cauliflower, carrot, ginger is a few. You can any flavor in this vinegar mixture, fresh herbs, ginger slices, whole garlic, whole spices and make it more interesting.

Best it goes with red onion and give nice bright color but if you don't have it you can use white or yellow onion too. Use regular white vinegar or rice vinegar, that will give you more flavor. You have to add sugar to balance sourness of vinegar. But honey or any other sugar substitute works fine too. Store in glass jar, canning jars are better. Metal will react with vinegar and spoil your pickle and plastic will absorb the pickling flavor. You can just put this in fridge and enjoy till it last.

So lets make it.

Ingredients : 

1 Medium red onion - slice it round or long thin matchsticks , its up to you
1/2 tsp sugar and salt
3/4 cup rice or white wine vinegar

Flavoring : fresh herbs, whole garlic, sliced ginger, whole spices.

Method:

Boiled 2 -3 cups of water in pan.
Sliced your onions and keep it aside.
Mix your sugar, salt and vinegar and flavoring in the jar you are going to store it. Mix it nicely so everything dissolved.
take colander and put your onions in it and pour boiled water on onions.Let it drain and then add onions in the jar and stir in nicely to it coat with mixture.
Onions will be in ready in 10 minutes but will get more flavors after few hours.
Use fresh spoon or fork every time you take out some onions.