How do you make a strong onion weaker, like in a pasta salad?

Answer 1

Soak the onion in ice water for 20 minutes or so. That will help make it milder.

Answer 2

Soak the chopped onion pieces in cold water at least one hour before preparing the salad.

Answer 3

Soak them in ice water, caramelize them or sautee them. You can also substitute Yellow onions with Sweet, Red, Spanish onions or Shallots, all of which are a lot milder in flavour.

Answer 4

Boil a quarter inch of water then throw the onion slices in for about three minutes (until they just start turning transparent). Drain and refrigerate, then use as called for!

Answer 5

Caramelizing onions in a pan will surely make your onions "weaker" and taste sweeter.

Answer 6

You should put these choped onions for some time (say 10-15 minutes) in water and add some salt in it.
Try this as soon as possible and you will know that who is correct.

Answer 7

Use red onions or shallots...yellow or white onions typically are too harsh for a pasta salad.

Answer 8

I think you soak them in iced water for a few hours for raw onions.

Sweating them off in oil or butter for 10 minutes makes them taste sweeter and milder for cooked onions.

Answer 9

chop it very thin, and don't use alot of it. If the recipe asks for 1/2 cup of chopped onion,
only use a tablespoon of very thinly sliced onion.

Answer 10

Slap it down to size....

Seriously, just use sweet onions. Much milder and better for salads.