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Pickled Red Onions

Super easy pickled red onion (or whatever else you want to pickle!) recipe. You can experiment with different types of vinegars, as well as adding other spices such as peppercorns, red pepper flakes, rosemary sprigs, garlic, or others. You can also substitute maple syrup for the sugar.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Resting time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 1 red onion
  • ½ cup apple cider vinegar
  • 1 tbsp sugar (I like to use turbinado)
  • 1½ tsp salt
  • 1 cup hot water
  • peppercorns
  • red pepper flakes
  • garlic clove, smashed

Equipment

  • Mason jar

Method
 

  1. Heat water in a saucepan.
  2. Using a mandolin, slice red onions as thin as possible. If you don't have a mandolin, slice them with a knife.
  3. Put all the sliced onions in a jar.
  4. In a bowl or Pyrex measuring cup, combine water, vinegar, sugar, and salt, and stir until solids are dissolved. Pour the pickling mixture into the jar and make sure the onions are completely submerged.
  5. Optionally add spices such as cracked or uncracked peppercorns, red pepper flakes, a smashed clove of garlic, thyme, oregano, or whatever you like.
  6. Pickled onions will keep in the fridge for 2 weeks.