Arboretum-san sent Vidalia onion and its recipe’s pamphlet to
Hiroko on May 18.
The couple of recipes and “the instruction of storage tip”
from the pamphlet, published by Bland Farms, LLC, 1125 Raymond Bland Road,
Glennville, Georgia 30427, 1-800-VIDALIA, www.BlandFarms.com,
are posted in this blog.
This is recipes pamphlet.
This is Vidalia, Sweet Onion
This is the wrapped Vidalia onion as the instruction* in the
pamphlet.
Hiroko made 4 dishes from this Vidalia onion.
1．Stapleton
Crab Salad from the pamphlet (for 4 people)
½ cup white wine vinegar
¼ cup sugar
Pinch salt
Pinch pepper
1 medium Vidalia onion, peeled and thinly sliced
1 medium vine-ripe red tomato, diced
1 medium vine-ripe yellow tomato, diced
12 ounce fresh blue lump crabmeat, picked over to remove
shell fragments
¼ cup virgin olive oil
4 scallions, thinly sliced
4 basil leaves, julienned
In a large bowl combine vinegar, sugar, salt and
pepper. Add Vidalia onion and cucumber
slices to vinegar mixture, toss to coat.
Marinate for 1 to 2 hours. Add
tomatoes, crabmeat, olive oil, scallions and basil. Toss gently and season to taste. To serve, divide salad among four chilled
plates. Makes four servings.
Hiroko didn’t use the crabmeat, because she didn’t have
that, and there were chicken dish the night.
This salad for only Dan-san and Hiroko, so only 1/3 of the Vidalia onion
was used, and all other ingredients were used less than mentioned in the
recipe.
2．Vidalia
Sweet Onion Bruschetta from the pamphlet (for 4 people)
3 medium Vidalia sweet onions, peeled and thinly sliced
6 Roma tomatoes, cored and quartered
½ cup olive oil
Juice of one fresh lemon
11/2 tsp. dried Italian herbs
2 cloves garlic, crushed
Salt and pepper to taste
According the recipe, mix all the ingredient in a large
microwave safe bowl and cook in the microwave until onions are tender. Serve
with Italian bread
Hiroko cooked all the ingredients (1/2 of the mentioned)
except lemon juice in the pan, and added lemon juice and 1 Tbsp. honey, and
mixed well.
There were no Italian bread, and Hot-Dog dinner the night, so
Hush-Brown were served with this sauce instead of tomato ketchup. Dan-san likes it.
3．Chicken
Salad with Vidalia Sweet Onion (for 4 people)
1 cup macaroni, cook
1 set boneless and skinless chicken breast or 4 strips of
chicken tenderloin, cook (by baking, steaming, broiling, pan frying with salt
and black pepper) and dice ½ inch pieces
1 medium side Vidalia sweet onion, chop
2 stalk celery, chop
½ seedless cucumber, ½ inch dice
½ red pepper, ½ inch dice
½ green pepper ½ inch dice
1 apple, ¼ inch dice
½ cup walnuts
4 pieces mushroom, dice – optional
½ cup white cheese, ½ dice - optional
Sauce: 2 Tbsp Olive
oil
2 Tbsp
vinegar or lemon
Salt and
pepper
2 Tbsp
mayonnaise - optional
Mix all this ingredients in a large bowl
4．Sandwich
with Vidalia Sweet Onion and Tomatoes
This is the best sandwich said by Dan-san’s Uncle Jimmy-san
who lives in Georgia
1 or 2 slice Vidalia onion as thick as you can take
1 slice tomato
½ tsp mayonnaise
Place this on the toasted bread, and eat.
Hiroko didn’t use mayonnaise and use one sliced bread. This is the best way to eat Vidalia, sweet onion.
Thanks Arboretum-san for letting Dan-san and Hiroko to have
all these delicious dish with Vidalia for a week.
Hiroko would like to tell the
history of Vidalia to Japanese people, so check the WikipediA, The Free
Encyclopedia. Here is the History
mention in the Encyclopedia.
The onions were first grown near
Vidalia, Georgia, in the early 1930s. It is an unusually sweet variety of
onion, due to the low amount of sulfur in the soil in which the
onions are grown. Mose Coleman is
believed to be the person who discovered the sweet Vidalia onion variety in
1931.
Please go to the WikipediA for more information.
*The instruction for Storage Tips and Health Benefits from
the Pamphlet
O The key to keeping Vidalia Sweet Onion fresh is to keep
them in a cool, dry and separate space.
O Wrap onions individually in tissue paper, paper towel, or
newspaper and store in refrigerator. Be
sure onions are dry before storing in paper.
O Place onions in the legs of sheer pantyhose. Tie knot between each Vidalia. Hang in cool, dry, well-ventilated area. Cut above knot when you want one.
O To freeze, chops onion and place on a cookie sheet in
freezer. When frozen, remove and place
in freezer containers or bags and seal.
Freezing changes the onion’s texture, so frozen onions should be used in
cooking only. Whole frozen Vidalia can
be baked.
Health Benefits:
o Great source of Vitamin C and quercetin
o Fat and Cholesterol free
o Low in sodium
o Excellent antioxidant
o Great dietary fiber
o Aids in cellular repair
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