Wiktionary
n. A type of onion with reddish purplish skin.
WordNet
n. flat mild onion having purplish tunics; used as garnish on hamburgers and salads [syn: purple onion]
Wikipedia
Red onions, are cultivars of the onion with purplish red skin and white flesh tinged with red.
These onions tend to be medium to large in size and have a mild to sweet flavor. They are often consumed raw, grilled or lightly cooked with other foods, or added as a decoration to salads. They tend to lose their color when cooked.
Red onions are available throughout the year. The red color comes from anthocyanidins such as cyanidin. Red onions are high in flavonoids. They can be stored 3 to 4 months at room temperature.
Red onion is a vegetable.
Red onion may also refer to:
- Red Onion, Kansas, a community in Kansas
- The Red Onion, a restaurant in Aspen, Colorado
- Red Onion State Prison, a state prison in West Virginia
Usage examples of "red onion".
So he scurried about to prepare two of his bistro specialties: a colorful lentil-tomato-scallion salad, and a bowl of baby spinach leaves tossed with a balsamic vinaigrette and topped with slices of goat cheese and tiny dollops of a red onion marmalade he grabbed from the dining-room jam cabinet.
I grilled it and added a warm potato and chorizo salad, topped with a little shaved fennel and red onion with mint and basil.
I went by the Red Onion a few years later but it had burned and another club had been built in its place.
I was in the kitchen, makin him a sandwich, hummin a tune, and thinkin, 'Make it good, Dolores - put on some of that red onion he likes and just enough mustard to make it tangy.
Marianne's minestrone was the most delicious soup Patrick had ever tasted: steaming-hot, in stoneware bowls, a thick broth seasoned with fresh basil and oregano, containing chunks of celery, tomato, carrots, red onion, beans, chickpeas and macaroni.
Then came slices of cucumbers and tomatoes, piles of green olives, good amounts of Louisiana hot sauce, and the wet purple-and-white shavings of a red onion.
First, a trio - 'Terrible Blues' with the musikron giving you a basic recording by Clarence Williams and the Red Onion Jazz Babies, Pete Serantis adding an entirely new effect.
There was a huge salad, the lettuce crisp enough to crackle, the cucumber slices neatly trimmed of skin, a few curls of a red onion and five different kinds of dressing in silver boats.