Pickled Pentagrams
Star-shaped pickled onions add a fun bit of magic to any dish. Add them to salads, sandwiches, hamburgers, tacos, eggs, avocado toast and more.
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Servings: 3 cups
Equipment
- mini star cookie cutters
Ingredients
- 1 large red onion
- 1 medium yellow onion
- 1½ cups water
- 1½ cups red wine vinegar
- ⅔ cups sugar
- ¼ cup kosher salt
- 1 tbsp red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Cut onions into quarters, trim both the ends and peel off papery outer layer. Separate the onion layers and punch out stars using a star cookie cutter. Cut out about 3 cups of stars. Reserve left-over onion scraps to use in another recipe or freeze.
- In a small saucepan, add water, vinegar, sugar, salt and red pepper flakes and bring to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes.
- Clean a 1 quart mason jar, lid and ring and set aside. Add onion stars and fill the mason jar with boiling liquid. Place lid and ring over filled jar and hand tighten.
- Let cool to room temperature and then place them in the refrigerator and allow onions to pickle for 2-3 days and Enjoy! Note: These onions are quick pickled and not canned, so they must be stored in the fridge. Can be stored in the refrigerator for about 10 days.
