Borettane, onions pickled in balsamic vinegar

Description

Borettana is a wonderfully old Italian variety of cipollini onion, literally meaning ‘little onion’ in Italian. Also known as Borettane or Button onions, they are shaped much like a button with a distinctive flattened, saucer-like shape often punctuated with an appealing curled length of stalk and ripen to a golden yellow. These are pickled in balsamic vinegar for a rich, smooth pickled onion that will have you wondering where they all went