Indian Red Onions for Cooking, Salads, Pickling

Red onions are cultivars of the onion (Allium cepa) with purplish-red skin and white flesh tinged with red. But the skin of the red onion has also been used as a dye. Found in every kitchen, onions are among the world’s oldest cultivated plants. A member of the lily family, it is grown for its edible bulb. It is native to South Western Asia but is now grown throughout the world primarily in the temperate zones. Healing properties abound, the humble onion has medicinal properties, nutritional benefits and teary secrets too.