This red wine with purple onion is said to be good for hearts, for reducing arterial lipids and for softening blood vessels. I first heard of these sayings from causal chats, from emails forwarded to me, and then from friends’ personal recommendations. On the day I was ready to prepare this drink, I also read an article (in Chinese) on the Apple Daily News mentioning the same, and seemingly endorsing me to share this recipe. The author of that article also wrote about A Soup for Preventing Flu
In only two steps and a couple of minutes, this drink can be done. But wait, for the best effects, it should not be drunk on the first 7 days. If the wine looks so irresistible, let me propose to make only half portion of this recipe and enjoy the remaining bottle (this was what I did actually).
- Ingredients
- 1 bottle 750ml red wine
- 2 each of purple onion
Method
1) Remove the outer membrane and cut away both ends of the onions, rinse them, cut each into 8 wedges. Pat dry. Load them into a container (I suppose it is better to have a sterilized glass container), and pour in the wine.
2) Seal the container, store it in a cool dark area for a week. Remove the onions from wine on the 8th day, and store the whole container in fridge. You may then start enjoy 50ml per night from then onward.
To cut onions without ‘crying’, try this tip in my previous post.
Be prepared, the wine with onions soaked in it for so many days will offer a strong garlicky flavor. Indeed, the very first sip of the drink did not please me. It took me quite a while to get used to the smell, but what I am sure now is that I will go for the second, third … bottles of this as hubby has gladly grabbed every 50ml of his.
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Recipe Category: Drink . Healing .
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Strange but interesting. Red wine is good for you, Onions are good for you = putting the two together is a novel idea! I must admit, I’m a bit scared to drink it. Cook with it – yes
I’d like to try, but is it for real that it helps arterial lipids? LOL
@Kitchen Butterfly, You may like it if you try.
@KennyT, I should have quoted from the author, ‘ … among friends, there is a record of lowered cholesterol level in a month … ‘ . Correct me if I’m wrong, my interpretation is that lowered cholesterol is somehow related to reduced arterial lipids. If you are interested in reading the original article, just click on the link ‘(in Chinese)’, of which I have just added above. Enjoy your red wine with onions!
I am not sure if I will drink it but chinese herbal usually taste really bad and good for us.
Interesting! I recently read somewhere that eating 1/2 of any raw onion a day can bring one’s bad cholesterol (LDL) down by 25% in two weeks. I don’t know if that’s true, but apparently onions do have some very good qualities when it comes to arterial fats! I might have to try this…
How interesting! I love red wine and onions! But the combination of these two in a glass…I am totally intrigued!
Great informative recipe! It’s peeked my interest I think I will do more research on it.
That looks and sounds definitely new to me!
Je ne connaissais pas du tout.
C’est très intéressant.
See soon.
@Nadjibella, I do mean to read every comment to me word by word. Yet I know no French; so if all possible I would appreciate it if you could write to me in English, big thanks.
I’ve never heard of it before, sounds really intriguing and I would love to try it one day
Interesting…I love wine, but don’t know if could take it with onion…even the red on
Wow. Red wine and red onion?? That is incredible! I have never heard of such a thing, but it sounds worth trying, particularly because of its health benefits. Thank you for sharing!
This is new and interesting to me. I’ve heard of the health benefits of red wine but not with red onions. Thanks very much for the info. I always add red wine to make soup and it’s very warming.
wow that’s so interesting. i’ve never heard of adding red onion to red wine to increase the health benefits. i should try it sometime… but i’m sure it’ll be very weird at first.
I bet this would be fab with pork. Yum!