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Onions and Garlic
Garlic and onions are both from the same bulb genus Allium. Garlic can be traced back some 7,000 years to the ancient Egyptians. Both are used in a variety of food dishes and such as lasagne, bolonagise and French Onion Soup. The onion is found in three different colours; Yellow, red and white, whilst garlic is a white creamy colour. Both are said to have health benefits to humans. Garlic having antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties whilst onions are thought to help with the common cold to heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, and other diseases.
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What recipes are there for onion weed?
Yes, onion weed is edible, you can eat it raw or cooked. Vegans like to eat it, and you can eat the flowers, stems, or bulbs finely chopped on salad, soup, fried rice, or pasta!
An Onion belongs to the The bulb plants family like lily galic etc.
How do you blanch leeks in a garden?
Blanching vegetables involves immersing them in boiling, usually salted, water for a short period of time, and then draining. Blanching is appropriate for vegetables that require very little cooking or could even be eaten raw: green beans, asparagus, etc.
For green vegetables, blanching is usually followed immediately by an ice bath; as rapid cooling is needed to stop cooking and preserve the green colour (which breaks down after about 7 minutes of cooking).
The roots are adventitious and the veins are parallel. All onion and onion related families are monocots.
onion cloute is an onion cut in half. take one half and pin a bay leaf to it using whole cloves. i use four cloves. it is then put into the milk for a bechamel sauce.
Onions are usually pickled using a variety of ingredients including vinegar. Vinegar is the common household name for acetic acid.
Can you substitute shallots for leeks?
Depending on the recipe, you can use onions or green onions in place of leeks. It won't be identical but it can be close.
How much crushed garlic is equal to one clove?
Cloves come in all sizes so you can't determine. If I read it in a recipe and only had minced garlic I'd used 2 teaspoons.
Is there a cell membrane in a onion cell?
The rectangular, single celled cell,with hardly any color (good thing I studied them in class!)
Why do onions make people cry when they cut them?
The acidic chemicals in the onion are released when slicing through its tissue, rise in the air along with heat and irritate your eyes by being absorbed through the cornea. Use a fan to blow the molecules away from your eyes to avoid irritation. Onions produce the chemical irritant known as syn-propanethial-S-oxide. It stimulates the eyes' lachrymal glands so they release tears. Scientists used to blame the enzyme allinase for the instability of substances in a cut onion.
What are the characteristic of onion?
An onion is an edible bulb of many layers, with a pungent smell and taste, used in cooking. It is a member of the Alliumgenus - along with garlic, leeks and chives - in the the Lily family, the Liliaceae.
What organelle is visible in an onion cells under a microscope?
Cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, vacuoles, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, cell wall, chloroplasts. The spelling might be wrong but the rest is correct :)
How can you cook shallot onions?
First, carefully peel the shallot, somewhat like you would an onion.
Then slice the shallot in half lengthwise, parallel with the grain.
Next cut slices from each half keeping slices together as to give the impression that the shallot is not sliced at all
Turn shallot 90 degrees and repeat slicing.
When you are finished you should have a finely diced shallot.
An oniom ways as much as an onion should and an onion is 5 divided by two times 3 minus 1
No it is acctually the same price as a donut
Can you get a fever from onions?
Sticking a sliced onion or sliced garlic under the armpits for at least a few hours is said to raise the temperature of the body a few degrees. A better alternative to this is simply not faking a fever or being honest about your reasons for wanting to avoid whatever the fever would excuse you from.
How do you cop onions without crying?
I assume your asking "cutting onions", The simplest way I've noted is to turn on the stove fan and let it pull the air away from you as you work on cutting the onion and then wash your hands and tools used.
What is the use of onion in food?
an onion cell stores food
The epidermis is the outermost layer of the skin, it acts as the body's major barrier against the environment. It is the thinnest on the eyelids at and the thickest on the palms.
How many green onion bunches in a pound?
According to the Book of Yields 7th edition,
there are 3.5 ounces in 1 bunch of scallions
Why don't onions have a taste?
It has a sharp, spicy taste that is similar to hot peppers only more bitter-sweet and lots of tang and zing. It's that zing that adds to flavour when adding onion to different foods like omelets, baked chicken, tomato sauce, etc.
How do you know if a onion is ripe?
It might have just been older. It's gone bad if it's soft, wrinkled, foul smelling (and I don't mean the usual onion smell, I mean a "what died?" smell), slimy/sticky inside, mushy or molding on the outside. Also, if it's sprouted, it's pretty much worthless. Onions keep surprisingly long. Store them in a dark ( not damp) spot away from potatoes.
Oh, and no, you won't get sick. :)
Onions grow seeds on the tops of their stalks, not inside the bulbs. Their umbels (the flower head on the top of the plant) will dry out and then you have seeds. The bulbs themselves never have seeds inside.
What is the history of the onion?
On the lighter side
The story of the laughing onion. One day a laughing onion grew out of the ground and was picked by a farmer who had also picked his nose. This farmer placed the onion in his cellar with a bunch of other onions. The other onions were jealous of the first onion because he was always laughing. The laughing onion tried to teach the others to laugh but they could only cry. Then one day the laughing onion was alone in the cellar and because he was alone he began to cry. The farmer heard the onion crying and asked "What's wrong?" The onion replied, "Well, all my friends have left and now I'm all alone." The farmer was touched and decided to help the onion. So he cut the onion up, put it in his omelette, and ate it. --------------------- um, my story of the laughing onion is a little different from the one above but oh well i will share the awesomely incredible story of the laughing onion. Once there was an onion. once he was pulled out of the ground by the farmer the farmer said "omg this onion has a face. it has a gift. for being born with this face i shall give you... ONE... MILLION... DOLLARS!!!" There was much celebration and confetti flying everywhere. one of the confetti got stuck in the farmers eye and he started freaking out and asked the onion to help him. the onion stared at him. and he stared at the onion. akward. then suddenly the onion started laughing like crazy at the farmer so the farmer punted him across the room, right through the wall, and off to oklahoma. somebody found the onion and kept him. after a while the dude that found the onion was in pain and the onion laughed at him. the guy kicked the onion as hard as he could and the onion flew across the country. somebody found him there and the pattern continued. THE MORAL OF THE STORY- if you find an onion with a face that fell from the sky, try not to be in pain and if you are and the onion laughs, continue the tradition of the laughing onion and kick the onion AS HARD AS YOU CAN and hope whoever finds the onion continues it too.
