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Onion and Herb Filling

Finely chopped onion with parsley (and cilantro) and spices: raw, mixed in a bowl, or fried until golden with the spices and cooled before the herbs go in. Based on the recipes themselves here, with no verified source.

⏱ 16 min🧩 2 parts
⚖ Pareve🥬 Vegetarian🌱 Vegan🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Fried onion

  1. 1
    Heat the olive oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveFrying pan
  2. 2
    Add the onion and fry for 10 minutes, stirring, until the onion is soft and deep golden.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.

To assemble

  1. 3
    Add the cumin to the onion and cook another 2 minutes.
    Stove
  2. 4
    Let cool and add the parsley.
75calories
0 gprotein
3 gcarbs
7 gfat
● protein 3%● carbs 14%● fat 83%

Per serving (40 g), of 4 servings

For the Fried onion · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (2) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)

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🧩 Parts

⚙️ What you can change

  • Possible additions: Raw onion · Parsley · Cilantro · Cumin · Paprika · Turmeric · black pepper · Bell pepper · salt
  • Cooking the spices in the onion (minutes): 2

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