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Recipes using pickled shallots please?

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Hello everyone,

Regular lurker on this board (love the recipes and tips I pick up here!)

I have a jar of pickled shallots in the cupboard and wondered if anyone has any recipes or ideas for using them. I know I can enjoy them whole or chopped as they are but I wondered if anyone has any inspiration for recipes or nice meals to enjoy them on/in/with, as I like onions within food but not really whole onions to just eat.

Any advice helped. I did have a quick search but couldn't find what I was looking for but please feel free to suggest any posts or merge if you think something may be of use.

Thanks!

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  • System
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    Anyone? :)
  • hoglet121
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    I don't have a recipe to hand but I would chop them and put them in a cheese bread, think along the lines of cheddar, walnut and pickled onion. But then I do like to play around with recipes.

    We put them in salads too
  • Fruball
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    I have heard that you can use them in recipes like coq au vin as the vinegar taste cooks out... on that principle, you can probably use them in most things with a strong flavour.

    I have often wondered what else I can use them for too
  • cornishchick
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    Pickled onion gravy? Once , at work, we ran out of fresh onions. So another support worker rinsed off some picked ones and used them.. I was told it tasted lovely.....

    Perhaps sliced and mixed with some cheese bits to put in cheese and onion bread?
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  • crumblepie
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    Make a cheap and cheerful tomato soup. I discovered the recipe last week and love it.

    In a pan tin chopped tomatoes, tin of baked beans, tin of sliced carrots, and a couple of pickled onions, or in this case shallots and a dash of worcestershire sauce. Add stock cube/salt/pepper.

    Blend it all together then heat up. It tastes just like heinz. I was a bit sceptical but it really does.
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    crumblepie wrote: »
    Make a cheap and cheerful tomato soup. I discovered the recipe last week and love it.

    In a pan tin chopped tomatoes, tin of baked beans, tin of sliced carrots, and a couple of pickled onions, or in this case shallots and a dash of worcestershire sauce. Add stock cube/salt/pepper.

    Blend it all together then heat up. It tastes just like heinz. I was a bit sceptical but it really does.

    ahh yes! this is a slimming world recipe and although i haven't made it, i am told it really is just like heinz!
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    crumblepie wrote: »
    Make a cheap and cheerful tomato soup. I discovered the recipe last week and love it.

    In a pan tin chopped tomatoes, tin of baked beans, tin of sliced carrots, and a couple of pickled onions, or in this case shallots and a dash of worcestershire sauce. Add stock cube/salt/pepper.

    Blend it all together then heat up. It tastes just like heinz. I was a bit sceptical but it really does.

    Thanks a bunch for this - going to give it a go early next week and will let you know how I go! Have bookmarked this so I don't forget :)

    Thanks to everyone who replied - I really appreciate it!
  • Billie-jo
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    I have The Good Table cookery book by Valentine Warner right beside me and there is a recipe for 'Pickled onion, steak & ale pudding' in it. Basically make a suet pastry and follow a good steak and ale pie adding 150 grams of baby pickled onions drained to it. Shallots would work just the same.
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