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This Week’s Bag Featuring Sweet Onions – Week of April 12th

April 12, 2021 by Anna

It’s a new growing season! You’ll find Ewa sweet onions, the younger cousing of the beloved Maui onion, in this week’s bag. This onion is available during spring, starting April through October.

Sweet onions are a milder variety of onions, making them super versatile and a favorite in the kitchen. They have a low sulfur content, a higher sugar and water content, thus less pungency than other onions.

Because of these characteristics, they are delicious even on their own. You can slice them raw for a sandwich salad or pizza. Try roasting them with your potatoes and carrots that you also got in this week’s box. Or cutting them into thick slices, brushing with oil, and grilling it with other vegetables. Sweet onions are also great for caramelizing – low and slow – to be added to steaks or burgers. Additionally, they bring a sweet and savory-ness to soups and dips.

To keep your onions fresh, store them much like potatoes – somewhere cool, dark, and dry, away from other vegetables. A refrigerator also works well. Cut onions can be wrapped up and stored in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. They do have a higher water content, so try to use them quickly!

Sweet onions contain vitamin C, vitamin B-6 along with copper, manganese, phosphorus, folate, potassium and magnesium.

What else is in the bag?


Mixed Carrots
Twin Bridge Farms

Japanese Cucumbers
Kahumana Organic Farm & Cafe

Lemon
OK Farms

Lettuce
Kunia Country Farms

Potatoes
Mahi Pono

Sweet Onion
Aloun Farms

Try out these recipes!

Southern-Fried Sweet Onion Rings
Sweet and Sour Thai Carrot and Cucumber Noodle Salad
Sweet Onion Relish

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