I was processing the pickling onions I grew this year and started to wonder what I could do with the onion greens (e.g. the leaves). All parts of the onion are edible, even the roots apparently, so it seems a shame to waste them.
I found a recipe that was essentially ginger and onion with oil and I thought I could do something similar. The problem was I had no ginger. Well, technically, I had quite a bit of ginger growing in the garden but it wasn’t ready to harvest. So I turned to crystallised ginger, which we had a big bag of.
Ingredients
- 100g Crystallised ginger
- 300g Onion greens (onion tops / leaves)
- 3 tbsp Sesame seed oil – I didn’t measure it, enough to make a medium thickness paste
- 1tsp salt – I didn’t measure it, I just added a reasonable quality
Method
In the food processor, wizz up the ginger until it’s finely chopped, seems to be when it starts forming a single ball again. Add in onion greens, oil, and salt. Wizz until well chopped. Transfer to a frying pan and fry hard for a couple of minutes, this really develops the flavour.
I also tried this with a bit of soy sauce and that was good too. Another suggestion was to add some chilli powder (but I’m the only one in our family who likes spicy food).
Anyway, I’m not sure you could really call this a sauce. We’re going to fry up some chicken breast and serve this on top. I think it’ll compliment the chicken well.