Nobody likes to peel and cut onions and the peels always end up in the trash. A big mistake that you shouldn't make from now on.
- Onions are full of vitamins, essential oils and taste.
- Unfortunately, many amateur chefs carelessly throw the bowls in the trash.
- So you can use onion skins.
Onions bring spicy taste to countless dishes . Before cooking, however, the tubers are usually peeled. Many make a mistake: They throw the onion skins in the trash - even though they are very valuable and can be used in a variety of ways.
Onion skins add flavor and color to the soup
Vegetable soups are sometimes a bit bland and pale. With onion skins you can conjure up color and spicy taste in no time at all. Wash the onion skin well and just cook it in the soup. They also give off nutrients, natural colors and a pleasant spice . In the end, you just have to remember to fish them out.
Onion skin in stocks, sauces and broths
But not only vegetable soups benefit from the "onion peel cure". Also, meat stocks, sauces and broths * get thanks to the dishes an extra dose of flavor and appetizing color. If it is too difficult for you to fish out, you can also put the onion skins in a special spice egg or herb bag, simmer and then simply pull them out again.
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Color the eggs with onion skins
What colors soups, sauces, etc. naturally also colors other foods, such as Easter eggs. The tip is just a little late, but is still useful if you want to spice up the eggs for Sunday breakfast . Onion skins inherit a beautiful golden brown. Put a handful of onion skins or more in half a liter of simmering water. After about 20 minutes they have given up their dyes and you can dye the eggs in them naturally.
Bake bread with onion skins
Dried and finely ground onion skins can also be used when baking bread *. You can replace up to five percent of the amount of flour required in the bread recipe with the onion skin powder . You will be rewarded with a spicy bread that also contains less gluten.
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Onion peel tea for colds
The cold season is long and even in summer we can catch a cold again. The onion is then a valuable helper. For a healthy onion tea, use not only the bowls, but the whole onion. Simply cut them into slices and boil them in half a liter of water for about five minutes. Then fish the onions out of the water again and drink the tea as hot as possible.
If you want to sweeten it, don't just use honey * or sugar. Better make an onion syrup and then benefit from the double onion power. To do this, cut the onion into small cubes, stir in plenty of sugar and let the whole thing sit in a glass. You can then skim off this healthy syrup in spoons and sweeten the onion tea. You can also take the onion juice straight - it helps against stubborn cough.
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