Soaking onions in buttermilk overnight?
I've never made onion rings at home cause I don't like to fry, but I recently saw a recipe (I think it was linked on here) for Onion Strings that called for soaking the thin onions in buttermilk for about an hour.
I want to make them as part of dinner tomorrow and I won't have a lot of time for prep because of a late afternoon meeting, so I wanted to cut the onions tonight and just soak them overnight to save time.
Can anyone tell me what happens if they soak longer? Like...say... overnight?
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10 Comments:
YUM! Go ahead...we used to soak trays at a time at one restuarant I worked at...24 hours should be just fine. Just drain well and proceed.
Cary at 4:14PM on 08/12/08
yeah? great!! I wasn't sure if it would break down the onion or anything like that.
Thanks!
and here's the recipe I was referring to.
link
Southern_bella at 4:47PM on 08/12/08
You may see some water in the buttermilk, but no harm there. I don't think buttermilk is acidic enough to break onions sown that quickly if the onions are good and firm to begin with.
Cary at 4:51PM on 08/12/08
well they're sweet white onions, and they'll be cut very thin, so maybe overnight is too long based on what you said about them being good and firm?
as I said before, I don't fry, I've never made regular onion rings, let alone the thin strings/straws
Southern_bella at 4:53PM on 08/12/08
love pioneer woman! and that should be fine...wouldn't go more than 36 hours....but that looks like our onions!
Cary at 6:52PM on 08/12/08
I feel so out of the loop, I'd never heard of pioneer woman until this recipe. :(
I put the onions in the buttermilk about an hour ago and I'll take them out when I get home from work tomorrow, so it'll be less than 24 hours.
I'm excited to try them. :) Thanks for your help!
Southern_bella at 7:45PM on 08/12/08
i have fried enough onion rings to go around the moon and back and i haven't ever soaked them longer than 20 minutes or so--while i ws doing some other prep step- i am gonna try this recipe, though
hobcat57 at 9:12PM on 08/12/08
I have a small window of prep time tomorrow after work and wanted to get this out of the way as long as it wasn't going to ruin the onions, I've nosed around and asked a couple of places and the consensus is that it won't make much difference, if you soak them for an hour or overnight.
I'll have my fingers crossed though, and as always with anything I make for the first time, I will learn from any mistakes made. ;)
Southern_bella at 11:14PM on 08/12/08
I made these yesterday (self-link) and they were REALLY yummy.
nevereverforever at 2:36PM on 08/14/08
@never - that's the recipe I used last night when I made them too :) they were great, but my dipping sauce needed some help.
Southern_bella at 5:45PM on 08/14/08