Easy Pickled Red Onions Recipe

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I'm Joe with smoking Joe's Pit Barbecue .

On today's video .

I'm gonna show you how to make a very popular barbecue side item .

The pickled red onion .

Stay tuned .

All right .

So let's get started on the pickled red onions .

So I'm starting with two medium red onions and I'm just gonna cut the ends off the root and the stem .

Then I'm going to cut it in half and believe it or not , there is a trick on how to properly slice your red onions .

All right .

So once you've got your onion cut in half again , we have the root and the stem on this side .

You wanna slice in this direction right here .

OK .

Really nice and thin slices .

Now you can cut these pretty thick or pretty thin .

I kind of go somewhere in between .

Now , I know that I mentioned that this is a very popular side item for barbecue , but quite honestly , this side item is perfect on just about anything .

Tacos fish , tacos , tacos barbecue , you name it even with your breakfast when you're having eggs , man .

A little bit of these red pickled onions are fantastic .

All right .

So , I've got the red onions all diced up .

I'm just gonna put them in this colander and I do have the Colander sit inside a pan because I'm gonna pour some hot water in there and these onions are gonna sit in that hot water for just about a minute and a half .

Ok .

All right .

So , I've got the onions inside the Colander .

Just gonna pour some really hot water over the onions .

And thank you , Miss Booger for these potholders , homemade potholders .

All right .

So , just stir your onions in there .

Just gonna move these aside for one minute .

All right .

For this next step .

I have 1.5 cups of hot water and I'm also gonna add 1.5 cups of vinegar .

Just white vinegar .

OK ?

Pour that in there .

I've got two tablespoons of Kosher salt and two tablespoons of sugar .

Give this a good mix .

All right .

That stirred up enough .

So our onions have been sitting in the water for about a minute and a half .

OK ?

I've got my mason jars right here .

Just gonna lift up my calendar .

Now , putting the red onions in the hot water is really gonna remove some of that oniony flavor .

Now , if you like it , just leave it in there for about 30 seconds or don't leave it in the hot water at all , you can put it directly into the mason jar .

All right .

So I've got my onions just gonna evenly distribute the onions into three different mason jars because I'm making three different styles of pickled red onions .

All right .

So I have a couple of jalapenos here .

Just gonna cut some quick rings .

Right .

So , on one of these jars , I'm gonna add the sliced jalape Os , on the other jar , I'm adding a tablespoon of crushed red pepper .

And on the third jar , I'm adding some peppercorn , whole peppercorns about a tablespoon , right ?

So we got our brining solution right here .

Just go ahead and fill up the jars .

Really simple recipe .

I tell you and so delicious .

Look at that perfect .

Every time I just gonna cover these up real quick .

Give them all a really good shake , right ?

So there you have it pickled red onions three different ways with jalapenos , crushed red pepper .

Look at that and whole peppercorns .

So what you wanna do at this point is let them sit in your fridge overnight before you plan on eating up .

Let's give them a taste , right ?

Let's give these pickled red onions a try .

Now I made these about a week ago and these actually have peppercorns and crushed red pepper .

So these are gonna be delicious .

Now , there's a guy out there from Louisiana that likes to put things on crackers , dude , if you know who I'm talking about , but we're in Texas and we put things on to .

So I'm gonna try these pickled red onions on a tortilla chip .

Here we go .

Mm I hope you guys enjoyed this pickled red onions .

Three different ways .

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