• Skip to main content
  • Skip to after header navigation
  • Skip to site footer
Nordic kitchen stories logo

Nordic Kitchen stories

Inspired by family recipes

  • Home
  • Recipes
    • Baking
    • Breakfast
    • Brunch
    • Cakes
    • Desserts
    • Dinner
    • Drinks
    • Festive
    • Fika
    • Fish
    • Foraged Food
    • Gluten-Free
    • Healthy
    • Lunch
    • Main
    • Nordic
    • Pickling
    • Preserving
    • Salads
    • Sharing
    • Snacks
    • Soups
    • Sourdough Baking
    • Starters
    • Vegan
    • Vegetarian
  • Bespoke Cakes
  • Workshops
    • Sourdough Workshops
    • Nordic Baking Workshop
    • Pastry – Savoury Tarts
  • Work with me
  • Buy my book
  • About

Scandinavian Quick Pickled Red Onions

13th April 2020 by Louise
Pickled red onion after 8 hours.

Generally you’ll always find a jar of these sweet piquant vegetables in my fridge.  Pickled red onions transform raw onion from pungent and crunchy to delicate and mellow.  Occasionally I add chilli flakes for extra spice or herbs for extra flavour.  They couldn’t be quicker to make either, just measure out the ingredients and mix, hey presto ready in just an hour or two.

The perfect topping for an open sandwiches or condiments for burgers, salads and tacos.  Quick pickled red onions will give your favourite dishes a burst of piquant flavour.

 

Print Recipe

Scandinavian Quick Pickled Red Onions

Prep Time8 minutes mins
Cuisine: Scandinavian
Servings: 1 jar

Ingredients

  • ½ red onion
  • 3 teaspoons caster sugar
  • 1 tsp fine sea salt
  • 60 ml apple cider or white wine vinegar you can use distilled white vinegar too.

Instructions

  • Finely slice the red onion, you can do this with a knife if you have good knife skills or use a mandolin. In a clean jam jar place the sugar, salt and vinegar and stir. Add the sliced onion to the jam jar. Top up with freshly boiled water from the kettle to just cover the onions. Screw the lid on and give it a little shake to distribute the ingredients. Place in the fridge for a couple of hours before using.
  • The onions keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

 

Swedish Pickled Onions
You can see that these onions have only just been placed in the pickling solution.
Scandinavian Open Sandwiches
Scandinavian Open Sandwiches

Tips:

  • For added Scandinavian flavours try adding dill seeds, caraway and peppercorns.
  • Alternatively try adding fennel seeds, peppercorns, juniper berries allspice or evenstar anise.

Share this:

  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook
  • Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
Category: Autumn, Healthy, Nordic, Pickling, Preserving, Spring, Summer, Vegan, Vegetarian, WinterTag: healthy, nordic, nordic flavours, preserving
Previous Post:Healthy No Bake Granola Bars
Next Post:Kale, Broad Bean and Avocado Salad

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




Nordic kitchen stories logo

Sign up to receive my latest recipes by email

Copyright © 2025 · Louise Hurst · Privacy Policy · All Rights Reserved · Website by Callia Web