Onion Caviar – small pearls that look like caviar, but I made them from caramelized onions. An aromatic surprise in the mouth and a visual highlight. Since caramelized onions go well with so many dishes, these delicious, shiny pearls can be used to refine and enhance many dishes.

An aromatic surprise in the mouth and a visual highlight: onion caviar. Here with balsamic pearls on tomato tuna.
An aromatic surprise in the mouth and a visual highlight: onion caviar. Here with balsamic pearls on tomato tuna.

Onion Caviar – an aromatic highlight for sophisticated vegan cuisine

Do you love adding aromatic and visual accents to your plating? With these beautiful, shiny pearls and their fantastic flavor, you can easily combine both.
Ideal for vegan, high cuisine. My onion caviar enhances many starters and main courses visually and flavourfully. It demonstrates vegan culinary art at a high level, but once you understand the principle of cold oil spherification, you can playfully implement it again and again.

Onion caviar – in a little bowl on a table
Onion caviar – an aromatic highlight for the vegan haute cuisine

Vegan caviar in many flavors thanks to cold-oil spherification

The technique of gelling water-based drops in cold oil is called cold-oil spherification.
This can be prepared in many flavors, so the sky’s the limit. However, the agar-agar content must be adjusted to the acidity of the liquid.

Vegan onion caviar in a small bowl, with a spoon on the side.
The cooking technique to produce vegan caviar is called cold oil spherification

More vegan seafood recipes

Have you always enjoyed eating fish and seafood and are now looking for vegan recipes for these dishes? Then simply browse my “V-Fish” category here on Daily Vegan. Or try these vegan fish recipes directly:

Sushi-Waffeln mit verschiedenen Toppings.
Sushi waffles with three kinds of homemade vegan caviar in the flavors of seaweed, caramelized onion, and balsamic vinegar.

Show me your vegan Onion Caviar

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Onion Caviar – How to Prepare in Photos

Here I’ll show you step by step how I prepare my onion caviar. After that, I’ll move on to the recipe directly.

All ingredients for the vegan caviar with the aroma of caramelized onions.
1. All ingredients for the vegan caviar with the aroma of caramelized onions.
Frying onions in a pan.
2. Fry the onions until they are lightly browned.
Frying onions in a pan.
3. Add the sugar and caramelize the onions.
Broth with the onions in a small saucepan.
4. Mix the broth with the onions and cook in a small saucepan for 5 minutes.
A tea strainer, straining liquid with oinions into a pot.
5. Take a tea strainer, strain the liquid into it and collect it.
Brown onion broth in a small saucepan.
6. Boil the collected liquid with the agar agar again in a small saucepan.
A pipette dripping oinion broth into a glass with oil.
7.Take a pipette and add the hot onion broth drop by drop into the cold oil.
Onion pearls are sinking to the bottom of a glass with oil.
8. The onion pearls are sinking to the bottom of the glass.
Straining onion caviar using a tea strainer.
9. Carefully strain the onion caviar using a tea strainer.
Onion pearls in a sieve on top of a galss with oil. Dripping.
10. Drain briefly, then store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Onion Caviar – Caramelized Onion Pearls
Onion Caviar – Caramelized Onion Pearls

Ingredients for 4-5 heaped tablespoons Onion Caviar:

1 onion, diced
2 tsp sugar
Salt
A little oil

150 ml broth
1/2 tsp (1.0 g) agar agar, pure agar agar, some are thickened with starch
100 ml oil

Preparation:

  1. Pour approximately 100 ml of oil into a glass, making sure the glass is about half to two-thirds full.
  2. Place the jar in the freezer. Let it cool for 30-60 minutes, but no longer.
  3. Meanwhile, heat a little oil in a pan.
  4. Add the diced onions to the pan and season with salt.
  5. Fry until the onions turn light brown.
  6. Sprinkle with the sugar and cook until caramelized, stirring frequently.
  7. Combine the broth with the onions and pour into a small saucepan.
  8. Cover and bring to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
  9. Use a tea strainer to strain the liquid, reserving the liquid.
  10. Bring the collected liquid and agar agar back to a boil in a small saucepan.
  11. Take a pipette and add the hot onion broth drop by drop to the cold oil.
  12. If the onion liquid cools too much and solidifies, you can reheat it.
  13. Once you’ve added enough pearls to the oil, carefully strain them with a tea strainer.
  14. Immediately transfer them to a glass jar or plastic container and seal.
    The onion pearls will keep in the refrigerator for about 1 week.

Enjoy!

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