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The strategy for these pickled red onions is (as one astute reviewer noted) pretty much just “mix everything together and wait.” One more boon for the recipe? It’s entirely made up of pantry staples. The pickling liquid is just a mix of water, salt, sugar, and vinegar—we’ve opted for apple cider, but white wine vinegar, red wine vinegar, sherry vinegar, or rice wine vinegar would all be fine. After letting your quick-pickled red onions sit for at least an hour to soften and marinate, drain them, and then put them to good use brightening up a juicy pile of ribs , sub them into your favorite breakfast sandwich , or scatter them atop a lunchtime grain bowl . They might be simple to make, but these pickled red onions have layers.

Editor’s note : This recipe was originally published on May 15, 2012.

Ingredients

Makes about ½ cup Servings

½

cups apple cider vinegar

1

tablespoon sugar

1½

teaspoons kosher salt

1

red onion, thinly sliced

Preparation

Step 1

Whisk first 3 ingredients and 1 cup water in a small bowl until sugar and salt dissolve. Place onion in a jar; pour vinegar mixture over. Let sit at room temperature for 1 hour.

DO AHEAD : Can be made 2 weeks ahead. Cover and chill. Drain onions before using.

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• You don’t boil the brine and pour over hot?

  • Anonymous

  • 8/27/2020

• Good simple recipe but why in the world is "1 cup of water" not in the ingredients list? Totally missed that it had to go in there when U got around to making it because I saw the ingredients list and remembered that the recipe is pretty much "mix everything together and wait"

  • Anonymous

  • York, PA

  • 7/2/2020

• I made it and it seems that this recipe is for a small red onion, since I used 3 onions but needed to have 5x the pickling liquid! Still, it's very straightforward and tasty and I'm looking forward to putting it on something instead of just snacking out of the container

  • Anonymous

  • Saint Paul

  • 4/21/2020

• Thanks for this. I didn’t have an hour so I microwaved everything for 90 seconds and let them cool down and they made the perfect sandwich topper.

  • Anonymous

  • Boston

  • 3/22/2020

• Absolutely delicious and easy! Just what I was looking for! I've made this a few times now and if you want a little more tang try going 50/50 apple cider vinegar and white vinegar.

  • Anonymous

  • Chicago

  • 5/8/2019

• Absolutely delicious and easy! Just what I was looking for! I've made this a few times now and if you want a little more tang try going 50/50 apple cider vinegar and white vinegar.

  • Anonymous

  • Chicago

  • 5/8/2019

• asx,ajn

  • Anonymous

  • 12/2/2018

• Great,

  • Anonymous

  • Islamorada

  • 7/6/2018

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