How To Pickle Onions | Good Housekeeping UK

Make homemade pickled onions with Good Housekeeping simple step-by-step video.

Ingredients:
1.8kg (4lb) shallots or pickling onions
225g (8oz) salt
1.1 litre (2pint) malt vinegar

1. Pickling onions are only available in Autumn, so use shallots when not in season.

2. Peel shallots. Trim tops and root end from onions and put them into a roasting tray. Sprinkle salt over, making sure shallots are well coated. Leave overnight.

3. Wash salt off and dry with kitchen towel.4 Pack onions tightly into clean, sterilized jars. Pour over vinegar to fill jars. Check there are no air pockets and shallots are completely covered. Seal jars with vinegar proof lids. The onions will be ready to eat after about 3 months. Once opened store in fridge.

[djsimonrossprice]

Add pickling spice AND Soft brown sugar. For extra crispy sweet onions. Vinegar is superb with either onion or garlic salt on homemade chips...

[robertvpparadox]

Traditional English pickled onions require, peppercorns, sugar, coriander and mustard seeds. The recipe shown would give you sour tasting onions much like store bought. Sarsons recipe is good.

[valeriesalerno]

What is the purpose of using salt please?