Thursday, December 25, 2008

Green onion recipes



[gay pizza boy thinks fondly of green onions]

To keep my locavore cred I substitute green onions for regular onions in almost everything I cook.

There are also lots of recipes using green onions themselves specifically, but not too many featuring just the vegetable. So here are two:

Braised green Onions Recipe [from BonAppegeek via All About Braising: The Art of Uncomplicated Cooking]
Stuff a dish with as many green onions as you can, with a little butter and water (stock will muddy the delicate flavors), some chopped tarragon or parsley, salt, Bake, tightly covered, at 350 for 40 minutes. Remove the lid, increase the heat to 450 and roast until most of the liquid evaporates, shaking the pan now and then. Season with salt, black pepper, and lemon juice. This is a lot like wilting spinach, or chard, and will greatly reduce the volume.

Green Onion Pesto Recipe
Saute say, two bunches of green onions until cooked . Throw 'em in blender with one or two cloves of garlic to taste, enough olive oil for right pesto consistency and add about a quarter cup of pine nuts [again, to your taste]. Add salt and pepper. After cooking a raw food meal for a friend once [no dairy] I realized you don't really need the parmesan cheese for pesto.

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