Super Quick Pickled Onions
I cannot get enough of these! A luxury I used to reserve for restaurants -- but who knew they take like five minutes of work?! Now I put pickled onions on just about everything.
Disclaimer: the grams I’ve listed manually after each ingredient are accurate for a single recipe, but they will not multiply if you choose the 2x or 3x option. Please make sure and multiply on your own!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbs sugar
- 1.5 tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 medium red onion sliced thinly
Instructions
- Mix together vinegar, sugar and salt.
- Mix with warm water in a jar to dissolve.
- Add thinly sliced red onion, soak for 1 hr or longer at room temp then store in the fridge.
Notes
- If you count your macros: I've always been nervous to try these because of the sugar. I assumed it would add up AND wasn't sure how to account for it. But this is my take on it. I weighed the pickling juice before and after the onions soaked and it hardly changed at all. Unless there's some science I don't understand where the onions pull all of the sugar from the water, the amount soaked up was so negligible. Not even worth tracking. If anything, the onions take on water and weigh more which means 30 grams of pickled onions might only be like 20 grams of raw onions which would make them LOWER in carbs in theory than raw. Also they're just onions. HA. So I'm calling it even and I'll be logging raw onions every time I use these babies.
Nutrition
Serving: 30gCalories: 11kcalCarbohydrates: 2.5gProtein: 0.3g
Tried this recipe?
Tag @LillieEatsAndTells on Instagram with #LillieEatsandTells! We'd love to see your creations!