1 onion. Ideas please

1974cookie - you're so right, we never went hungry despite money being tight.

So many wonderful ideas generated by just an onion! I will use Baggs idea. I love sweet potato.

Oh my goodness, I am completely spoiled for choice, and my mouth is watering at all the recipes.
Thank you all for your ideas.
I am definitely going to give Grannyknots Mums recipe for the fritters, regardless, as I too remember the days when money was short as a child. I remember my lovely Mum cashing in her Brooke Bond Tea stamp card for 5 shillings when she was short of money to buy food for our dinner.
We never starved though.

Onion bhajis!! Thanks for the reminder Gk

Does anyone have an easy recipe for light onion bhajis please?

Roughly, chunkily, chop up the onion and a couple of sweet potatoes and roast them together. Great with chicken.

For my recipe you really need lots more onions but you get the idea

If it's a big one it won't be as sweet as a small one, so not quite right for eating raw, thinly sliced, on a salad.

There are recipes for onion jams and chutneys which will keep till Christmas.

But you want to eat it now - so go for the soup, or slice it up and cook it with red cabbage (add no liquid - except perhaps a tiny drop of vinegar, or port or red wine for special occasions.)

That sounds really tasty. Might do that with a vegetable curry this pm. Once by mistake I ordered 1 brussels sprout and cooked it and chopped it up as a garnish on parsnips. Looked great!

Grannyknot, that sounds delicious. Sometimes you just can't beat recipes made out of nessessity. Our Mums were wonderful.

Loopy

This thread has brought back memories of my childhood: with a single parent and three children to feed and not much money, my mother had to be inventive with meals.

She used to make the most delicious fritters out of one onion grated, mixed with a couple of slices of stale white bread (white because it was the 1950s) soaked lightly in milk, mashed up with a beaten egg and spoonfuls dropped into hot oil to fry. A bit like an onion bhaji without the spice. I can taste them now, filling and delicious. We'd wait next to the stove and scoff them almost before they had time to hit the plate.

This all sounds delicious. Must look out for stray onions in the high street.

Cook it very slowly in pan with balsamic vinegar, brown sugar and chilli and lots cardamom seeds crushed, takes ages but makes beautiful onion sambal, Sri Lankan style chutney

caramalised onion tart, yummy.

A quarter diced and sprinkled raw atop pate on toast ...
Three quarters caramelised and eaten with good quality sausages / cheese omelette, or added to sautéed potatoes ...

Got me thinking for supper time today!

I can't afford steak ! So I'd fry up some liver and onions !

Cherrytree59 ?

If that were me i would put it in the bin...i hate onions!

stuff it with minced beef or lamb wrap in foil and bake and serve it with a tomato...ey sauce

What about tomato and red onion bruschetta, drizzled with balsamic dressing?

I need a cheese and onion sandwich, probably toasted!

Cut in half
Use one half to make an onion poultice for a bad cough.
The other half use raw and stick on bunion.

If you are cough and bunion free then a nice cheese and onion sarnie.

Caramelised red onion and goats cheese tartlets - delicious!

I'm with MissA on this one. Can't beat a cheese and onion sandwich!

Roasted red onion and beetroot with garlic and thyme, glazed with a few spoonfuls of chicken stock (or veg stock if a vegetarian) and balsamic vinegar.

Add a steak or sausages + potatoes.

A cheese sandwich with red onion. Toasted, if you feel like cooking.

Add a dash of balsamic vinegar to the caramelised red onion and make delicious canapes by serving on croutons with a little crumbled stilton on top -even better popped in the oven for just long enough to melt the stilton.