Onion

The familiar bulb onion, papery-skinned with layered flesh. Peeled and chunked — often sweated first to bring out its sugars — it deepens tomato-and-potato pots like ABC soup with a rounded savoury sweetness.

TCM properties

Nature · warming　Flavour · pungent、sweet

Traditional food therapy

In Cantonese food therapy onion is used to open the appetite, ease food stagnation and harmonise the stomach.

Cautions — read first

• Keep it moderate if you bloat easily or have excess stomach acid

Preparation

Peel and cut into chunks; frying it fragrant before it goes into the soup brings out more sweetness.

Origin

澳洲全國均有種植 — Supermarket staple; Australian supply is locally grown

Availability in Australia

Common at Asian grocers

Pairs well with