Turkish Onion Sidedish: recipe or ideas wanted.
The other day I went out to dinner at a nice little Turkish restaurant and one of the side to my delectable meal was some sort of wilted onion. I'm thinking it was sliced white onion wilted with white vinegar and garnished with just a tiny amount of parsley, but I'm not sure. I couldn't taste any vinegar though the onion flavor, which was dominating, but mild for an onion. I'd love to make this on my own, but I don't know where to start; any ideas or recipes would be greatly appreciated.
Oddly enough, the menu did not have any words other than the names of the dishes, and instead had images of the meals. I should have asked while I was there what the onion side was called, but unfortunately I did not.
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2 Comments:
Just guessing but either salt or vinegar or both. Maybe salted and then rinsed really well. Or salted water with just a splash of a light vinegar, like rice vinegar. Or maybe blanched?
Onions are cheap, it's not going to be expensive to experiment a bit.
They might be starting with pretty mild onions to begin with.
dbcurrie at 11:34PM on 03/01/09
This seems to be it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tursu
Fits with another sidedish, which I think was this: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1936,149175-242195,00.html minus the chopped onions.
PeteRepeat42 at 7:48PM on 03/02/09