Onion is unquestionably the master of my everyday cooking.
If I cook it with all the sauces, I sometimes stay with pieces of cut onions.
And these pieces of peeled onions invade and stink up my fridge.
Its conservation, once it is cut, is not ideal, because it withers and softens quickly...
Fortunately, there are tricks to keep an already cut onion easy.
To preserve it at best, I entrust you with my 3 tips.
Simple and very effective trick to keep an open onion...
I wrap my cut onion pieces in aluminum foil. And off you go, to the vegetable drawer of my fridge!
The ideal is to add a small piece of butter.
I can keep half an onion like this for a week without a bad smell as soon as I open the door of my fridge.
Very practical when you cut an onion in half or in quarters for example.
Even better because more ecological than aluminum foil, use reusable plastic film.
I cut my peeled onion into rings, strips or dice and place it in a plastic freezer bag.
I will be able to choose the quantities I want to decorate and flavor my dishes at my convenience.
It's a very practical trick when you want to cut the onions in advance.
So you can cut them the day before to save time and cook it the next day.
You can keep them like this in the fridge, even if you don't have a freezer.
When I go shopping, I buy onions of different sizes.
So, depending on the dish I'm cooking and the amount of onions needed for my recipe...
I use small or larger onions.
Clever, I avoid any waste!
And these grandma's tricks work for white onions from the garden, red onions or yellow onions.
If you cut shallots in advance, you can store them the same way as onions.
You may have heard that storing a cut onion is dangerous.
Certainly if you keep a cut onion for more than a week, it will be oxidized.
It will mold and will no longer be good for consumption.
But like any other food.
But storing an opened onion for 2 to 4 days is not toxic.
The maximum shelf life of a cut onion is one week.
