What Is Red bermuda onion and How Can I Use It?
Wondering what to do with Red Bermuda Onion? This guide covers how to pick it, cook it, store it, and swap it, plus 2 recipes to put it to work.
Key Points
- The Red Bermuda onion is an older name for a mild, flat, sweet red onion used raw.
- It behaves like any red onion: gentle flavor, best sliced thin on burgers and salads.
- It fades to a dull gray when cooked, so keep its work raw or barely cooked.
- The full choosing, using, and storage guide lives on the red onion page.
What is Red Bermuda Onion?
A Red Bermuda onion is a mild, flattish red onion, an older market name for the sweet, gentle red onions used raw. In practice it behaves like any red onion: purple-red skin and white flesh tinged pink, with a soft flavor and not much harsh bite.
That mildness is the point. Sliced thin, it is at home raw on a burger or in a salad, or quick-pickled, where its color and gentleness both earn their keep.
Like other red onions, it loses its bright color when cooked and fades toward a dull gray, so its best work is raw or barely cooked.
The full guide to choosing, using, and keeping this onion lives on the red onion page. See red onion for the details, or the onions hub for how it fits among the other varieties.
Quick facts
- In Chinese
- 红洋葱百慕大
- British (UK) term
- Red bermuda onion
- en français
- Red Onion Bermudes
- en español
- Red Bermuda Cebolla
Recipes using Red Bermuda Onion
There are 2 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Oklahoma Beans & Cornbread
Oklahoma beans and cornbread simmers dried pinto beans low and slow with ham until thick and creamy, served with sliced raw onion and a wedge of cornbread. A hearty, frugal one-pot supper with deep flavor.
Fiesta Pasta Salad Fat Free
Fat-free fiesta pasta salad tosses rotelle with red onion, corn, green chiles, jalapeño, and cilantro in a chili-cumin Italian dressing. A potluck-ready Tex-Mex side that gets better as it sits.
