Pickled Onions - Real Recipes from Mums

Fantastic with cheese and crackers, also very nice on meat and salad sandwiches.

Ingredients (makes 6 Jars)

2kg Pickling Onions
1200mls White Vinegar
6tbs Sugar
2 Dessertspoons Salt
12 Peppercorns
12 Whole allspice (pimento)

Method

Remove the skins by pouring boiling water over the onions. This makes the skins come off more readily and also lessens the strength of the flavour.
Soak the onions for a couple of days in a brine made up of a tablespoon of salt to every 600ml of water.
Drain the onions well.
Make up a pickle by boiling the vinegar, sugar, salt, peppercorns and allspice together.
Pack the onions into sterilised pint jars and pour over the pickle that has been allowed to cool. Store in a cool dry place for 3-4 weeks before enjoying them.

Notes

I have omitted the brine from the list of ingredients as you only need to make enough of it to cover the onions. Adding 2 or 3 Birdseye chillies to each jar gives the onions a nice little kick.

84 Comments

- - cassy26 said
  - 03 Jan 2023
    11:13 am
My eldest daughter would love these. I’ll have to give them a go

- - teegsmrstee said
  - 06 May 2019
    8:25 am
mm not sure I would enjoy these!

- - Cookfromscratchmum said
  - 02 Dec 2018
    7:14 am
Wow love pickled onions they look delicious

- - mom81879 said
  - 26 Apr 2017
    7:59 am
I’ve been Webb watching MKR and they’ve been making heaps of their own pickles, I’ve been encouraged to try my own

- - mom112217 said
  - 09 Jan 2017
    11:37 am
Pickled onions and fish and chips,so yum! Thanks!

- - dannsbuild said
  - 23 Sep 2015
    9:59 pm
Nice! What a great looking recipe! Thank you

- - mom57808 said
  - 12 Aug 2015
    6:18 am
mmmmm love with a piece of fish

- - Kell said
  - 23 Jun 2015
    2:09 pm
wow memories of going to the fish and chip shop and seeing the huge jar of pickled onions

- - GeoEllie said
  - 31 Jan 2015
    6:55 am
wow, never ever thought of doing this for myself instead of just buying it

- - mom93821 said
  - 06 Dec 2014
    9:30 am
Thanks again for sharing; made and very happy!

- - mom93821 said
  - 31 Oct 2014
    9:44 pm
Thanks for sharing this recipe. It is something I have always wanted to have a go at making. Looking forward to making my own pickled onions.

- - mom94125 said
  - 21 Oct 2014
    1:17 pm
and also thanks for posting this

- - mom57522 said
  - 14 Oct 2014
    9:11 pm
I often bottle up my tomatoes but have never tried onions.

- - mom94125 said
  - 09 Oct 2014
    2:37 pm
these will be so yummy

- - shortaez said
  - 08 Oct 2014
    8:47 pm
My other half loves picked onions

- - memo said
  - 23 Sep 2014
    12:01 pm
My mum and aunt would make these, I should try

- - kathryn said
  - 31 Aug 2014
    9:09 am
have not seen dessert spoons as a measure for a while

- - mom57598 said
  - 16 Aug 2014
    12:20 pm
these would be great to dice into dressing or sauces

- - ginoula5 said
  - 04 Aug 2014
    8:45 am
have never tried pickling, thank you for the easy recipe

- - rachkap said
  - 30 Jul 2014
    1:19 am
Always wanted to know how to make these!