white onion

Mild cooking onion

White onion is a variety of onion with papery white skin and a sharper, more pungent flavor than yellow onions.

Common in Mexican and Southwestern cooking, white onions have a crisp texture that works well raw in salsas and salads: Dice the white onion for the pico de gallo.

They tend to be milder when cooked.

Related
  • garlicPungent culinary bulb
  • rawIn original state
  • pungentSharply strong-smelling
  • diceMarked cubes for chance
  • minceCut into fragments

sauté · tears · knife skills · crisp · bulb · layers · papery · sharp · salsa · pico de gallo · mild · translucent · caramelize · chop · rings · sliced · crunch · aromatic

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onion color variety

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Purple-skinned pungent bulb vegetable

yellow onion · brown onion · shallot · Spanish onion · Vidalia onion

flavor intensity

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Vidalia onion · shallot · green onion · scallion · chive

color spectrum

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Fermented allium with molasses notes

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G