111 pickled red onion recipes

A loaded chicken salad with homemade croutons, crispy Canadian bacon bits, and a tangy yogurt-mayo dressing. Light, crunchy, and satisfying enough for a full meal in 30 minutes.

This well endowed cheesy macaroni salad recipe is packed with flavor and sized to feed a crowd.

Rack of lamb marinated 48 hours in fresh herbs, roasted to perfection, served with complex red wine demi-glace sauce studded with ham and pickles.

Poc-Chuc, the classic Yucatan grilled pork steak marinated in sour orange and achiote paste, served with habanero-spiked pickled red onions. Traditional Maya-style barbecue straight from Merida.

New Orleans-style pickled pearl onions with crab boil, red pepper flakes, basil, and bay. Spicy Creole condiment that's a must with red beans and rice or gumbo.

Old-fashioned fermented and pickled mixed vegetables with cauliflower, carrots, cucumbers, celery, pearl onions, and red peppers. Crock-fermented giardiniera-style.

A quick, easy and flavorful salad. I added a bit chopped red onion, and used lemon juice instead of lime juice, and it was very tasty. Next time I will use pickled jalapeno, which I think will make the salad taste even better.

Vegan hummus pita sandwiches with whole-wheat pita, pickled red onion, mixed greens, and chopped red bell pepper. Quick lunch, no cooking, ready in 20 minutes.

Grilled turkey burgers seasoned with chipotle, cumin, cilantro, and allspice, topped with tangy quick-pickled red onions on whole wheat buns. Lean, bold, and ready in 30 minutes.

Grilled salmon with potato and watercress salad, a smoky indirect-grilled salmon served over pickled red onion potato salad and peppery watercress. Low-fat summer dinner for six.

Grilled corn salsa with charred vine tomatoes, quick-pickled red onion, and fresh basil. Smoky-sweet kernels and peeled tomatoes make a bright summer topping for tacos, grilled fish, or straight out of the bowl with tortilla chips.

Quick pink pickled onions with red onion, white wine vinegar, and sugar. Ready in 30 minutes with no cooking, these tangy-sweet pickled onions brighten tacos, salads, and sandwiches.

Pottsfield pickles, a sweet-spiced relish of green and red tomatoes, onions, peppers, and celery in a cinnamon-clove brine. End-of-season Appalachian classic for the cellar.

Japanese cucumber pickles: thin-sliced cucumber and red onion in a sweet-tart rice vinegar brine with chili and cilantro. A quick no-cook refrigerator pickle, crisp and bright, ready to serve alongside grilled meats, chicken or fish.

Thai cucumber pickles, a quick sweet-sour-spicy side of sliced cucumber, red chiles, onion, and cilantro in a red wine vinegar brine. Five-minute condiment.

Chunky mustard beans with red peppers blanch green beans, peppers, and onions, then bind them in a turmeric-mustard pickling sauce with celery seed and mustard seed. A bright, tangy pickled relish for water-bath canning.