Onion jam

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 40 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Prepare the indicated products. Use white onions. Adding dessert lemon wine is desirable, but not necessary - it can be replaced with lemon, orange juice, citrus flavoring, or essence.

2. STEP 2

   

   Peel the onions and rinse in water. Cut into small cubes. The finer the cutting, the faster the jam will be ready, but you don’t need to crush the onion mass too much - then you won’t get jam, but jam! Pour the onion slices into a deep container, bowl, pan.

3. STEP 3

   

   Pour boiling water until the liquid completely covers the slices and leave for 5 minutes. Then drain the water and pour boiling water over the slices again and leave for 5 minutes. Boiling water will “take away” the bitterness from the slices and the piquant aroma, making the onion soft. Drain the liquid a second time.

4. STEP 4

   

   Place the onion mixture in a saucepan or cauldron, or a pan with a non-stick bottom.

5. STEP 5

   

   Add granulated sugar and citric acid to taste. Sugar is also sometimes replaced with honey, but only the flower product is added to the soft onion mass cooled to 35 C, since it is undesirable to heat treat honey - all the benefits are lost.

6. STEP 6

   

   Add dessert wine, preferably lemon or orange. You can add citrus juice instead. Be sure to use a citrus flavor, be it wine, flavoring, essence or juice, so that it overpowers the taste of the onion. Having decided to add an essence or flavor, replace the volume of wine with plain water.

7. STEP 7

   

   Place the container on the stove, turn on medium heat, carefully mix the contents and simmer for about 20-30 minutes.

8. STEP 8

   

   When the onion becomes transparent and completely soft, the jam is almost ready. Reduce heat to minimum and simmer for another 5-10 minutes. This will be just about on the edge: the onion slices will retain their shape, but will be ready to puree! At this point the heating must be turned off.

9. STEP 9

   

   Place the onion jam in clean, washed containers with lids: jars, containers, bowls or cocotte bowls. Cool and serve with cheese, bread, fruit.

Comments on the recipe

Natalia M

22.10.2023

4.5

I didn’t even know you could make jam from onions! But while I was looking for a recipe for an onion side dish on my favorite website, I also found a recipe for onion jam. I immediately decided to try it. The author writes that wine can be replaced with citrus juice. I thought for a long time about which juice to choose and decided to go with lemon. I had lemon syrup, I diluted it with boiled water and it turned out to be a delicious “juice”) I stewed the onions in the syrup for a total of 30 minutes. At the end of cooking, the pieces began to quickly caramelize and acquire an amber color. This jam looks amazing! The onion became transparent, with delicious bubbles. The jam has a peculiar taste) It is sweet, there is no taste or smell of onions, but there is an unusual aftertaste. Onion jam goes best with fried bread and white wine, but this is in my opinion) I will also note that after cooling the jam became much thicker, the pieces began to look like candied fruits. Thanks to the author for new sensations)