In professional cooking schools you learn, first and foremost, how to clean and cook vegetables. One of the first recipes they showed me was this one.
The recipe that I report is, instead, from my mother, who often made this dish in the past as an accompaniment to roast beef.

Sweet and sour onions

  • Preparation time: 40 minutes
  • Ingredients for 4 servings
  • Difficulty: Easy recipe

  • Ingredients
  • 1 lb. 7 oz (600 g) of fresh small onions
  • 4 tablespoons of wine vinegar
  • 4 tablespoons of chestnut honey
  • Extra virgin olive oil to taste
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  1. Instructions
  2. In a pan with some oil, stew the onions. Add lukewarm water, cover the pan, and cook for about thirty minutes.
  3. In a cup, mix the honey with the vinegar and a couple of tablespoons of water.
  4. Add the honey and vinegar mixture at the end of cooking. Reduce over high heat and season with salt and pepper.
  5. Serve hot.