Given the changing and increasingly stressful lifestyle, most people do not find the time to prepare healthy and balanced meals, especially when it comes to meat-based dishes.
We know well that these require a significant amount of cooking time, time that we don’t necessarily have when leaving the office.
This is why we have selected for you an onion-based tip that will allow you to cook your tasty dishes/meat in record time in addition to giving them taste, flavor and a beautiful appearance.
The onion is very popular in cooking, for its particular taste but also for its multiple health benefits.
This fabulous vegetable, often found in our dishes and salads, can be prepared in all forms and can be eaten raw, caramelized or steamed.
In this article, we offer you an onion-based cooking tip that most women ignore and which can improve or even change your cooking habits.
The clever recipe using red onion:
To prepare a meat dish and ensure that the meat cooks perfectly, here is a very simple idea.
You must immerse a red onion (preferably organic otherwise washed with water and baking soda to remove pesticides) cut into quarters with the skin in the pot of water.
You will then see that the meat will cook more quickly than usual and will have a beautiful pinkish color and an exquisite taste, enough to awaken your taste buds.
In a soup or stew, onion skins are an excellent ingredient not to throw away.
It brings a lot of flavor to your broth and gives a beautiful brownish color.
You then have the choice of adding whatever you like, such as mushrooms or seafood, and the result is exquisite.
The little-known virtues of onions:
1/ Rust and carbon:
onions help remove rust from kitchen or gardening utensils, they eliminate carbon deposits on pans and grills.
Simply scrub the dishes with freshly cut onions, then rinse well with water and dish detergent.
Onion juice cleans and completely neutralizes the burning smell.
2/ Better conservation:
To avoid food waste and preserve the pieces of onion that remain, put salt on them and place them on a plate, making sure that the cut part is in contact with it.
3/ Sweat stains:
Apply the juice to the stain, and leave it on for a while, then wash as usual.
You will be pleasantly surprised to see the yellowish spots disappear.
3/ Shoes:
Onions can be used to clean dirt from shoes. You can clean the sole, fabric and even leather.
4/ Insect bites:
Thanks to their antibacterial properties, onions help eliminate insect bites and relieve irritation and inflammation of the skin.
5/ Sore throat:
Onion juice relieves sore throat and reduces inflammation.
You can drink it with honey to soften its taste and increase its healing effects.
6/ Oily skin:
With onion juice you can make a lotion for oily skin.
This lotion will act on the sebaceous glands by regulating them, the skin will dry and will thus be disinfected.
7/ The scalp:
The water in which the onion peels are infused has a beneficial effect on the scalp:
it eliminates dandruff, gives volume and strengthens your hair. It is recommended to make a mask with this water and leave it on for at least 2 hours, then do your usual shampoo.
8/ Enhances the taste of savory tarts:
If you dry the onions into small pieces, you can add them to your pies to enhance their flavor.
Caution :
Consumption of onion reduces blood sugar level and people with diabetes should not overdo it.
Pregnant and breastfeeding women should moderate their consumption of this food.