How to prepare a spring onion

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 spring onion, you will need:

• 1 1 spring onion (scallion)
• Total weight: 125 grams

Times:

Preparation
5 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Spring onions are very long, with a white base and green tops.
• 2: Start by trimming off the rooty base.
• 3: Then cut off the ends of the green tops, only keeping the greenest parts that still feel firm.
• 4: Starting from the top, pull the outer skin of the onion...
• 5: ...downwards and off at the base.
• 6: Rinse the trimmed onion.
• 7: Then slice the onion thinly, starting with the white base...
• 8: ...up to the green tops.
• 9: Your spring onion is ready to use in your recipe.

Remarks

Spring onions should always be really fresh, as they go soft on keeping and the green tops wilt rapidly.

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