Mexican

Cebolla Morada Encurtida (Pickled Red Onion)

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Cebolla Morada Encurtida (Pickled Red Onion) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Vegetarian Vegan Pescatarian Dairy free Gluten free Halal

Ingredients

Serves
8

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Slice the red onion very thin.

  2. Pack the onion into a jar with the whole habanero and the mexican oregano.

  3. Pour over the lime juice and add the salt, pressing the onion down so it is submerged.

  4. Let it rest at least 30 minutes at room temperature, until the onion turns bright pink.

  5. Keeps a week in the fridge. The Yucatan table constant, and it never contains vinegar in a house that has limes.

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Serve it with

A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cebolla Morada Encurtida (Pickled Red Onion), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Cebolla Morada Encurtida (Pickled Red Onion) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Cebolla Morada Encurtida (Pickled Red Onion)
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
20 kcal
Protein
0 g
Carbs
5 g
Fat
0 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
3 g
Sodium
140 mg
Saturated fat
0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Cebolla Morada Encurtida (Pickled Red Onion) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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