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Mexican Pickled Red Onions

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Mexican Pickled Red Onions

Quick and easy Mexican style pickled red onions made in a sour orange juice.

Pickled red onions have to be one of my favourite condiments at the moment and they are amazing when added to a lot of different things like sandwiches or even tacos. What’s more is that they are really easy to make a home so I almost always have some in the fridge. A common base for pickles consists of water, vinegar, salt and sugar and from there you can add various other things like spices, garlic, etc. but you can also replace the vinegar with something like sour orange juice, such as the juice of seville oranges, like in Mexican style pickled red onions. (If you cannot find bitter oranges you can substitute a combination of regular orange juice and lime juice.) These sour orange Mexican style pickled red onions had a particularly nice freshness to them and the overtones of citrus were really amazing and refreshing!

Mexican Pickled Red Onions

Mexican Pickled Red Onions

Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 5 minutes Total Time: 15 minutes Servings: 2cups

Quick and easy Mexican style pickled red onions made in a sour orange juice.

ingredients
  • 2 large red onions, thinly sliced
  • 1 1/2 cups sour orange juice or 1 cup orange juice and 1/2 cup lime juice
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
directions
  1. Cover the red onion slices in boiling water for 10 seconds and drain.
  2. Mix the juice, sugar and salt, pour the mixture over the red onions and let sit, covered, for 4 hours.
Nutrition Facts: Calories 19, Fat 0.1g (Saturated 0, Trans 0), Cholesterol 0, Sodium 36mg, Carbs 4.4g (Fiber 1g, Sugars 2.4g), Protein 0.5g

Nutrition by: Nutritional facts powered by Edamam
Use in:
Pollo Pibil Tacos with Citrus Salsa
Cochinita Pibil Tacos
Coffee Rubbed Roasted Pork Belly Tacos

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Condiment, Food, Gluten-free, Mexican, Pickle, Recipe, Vegetarian

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  1. janet @ the taste space says

    November 15, 2011 at 1:37 am

    I am totally into pickling right now, too (made a gingery kimchi that I loved!). I like your flavours here, Kevin. Did you use fresh orange juice or just the stuff from concentrate?

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  2. Kevin says

    November 15, 2011 at 1:49 am

    janet @ the taste space: I used fresh orange juice since oranges were available.

    Reply
  3. Chris says

    November 18, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    Excellent with thin sliced flank steak!

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