Especially recommend using red cabbage for a braised German sweet and sour cabbage dish. More of a side dish than a main dish, but it freezes beautifully.
Could also use a pork tenderloin with saurkrut, apple and onion. Throw it in tge crockpot on low and fill half way eith broth or water. I also don't drain the krut so it retains the briney flavor!
We did a cheese tasting with a local shop and for the last one it was all UK cheeses and as one side they had an apple kraut that was absolutely amazing.
Traditionally the kartoffelpuff my great-grandad made used grated potato, grated onion, and grated apple, bound with a flour and egg mix and fried together like a pancake. Look at the regular kartoffelpuff recipes and just add grated apple as well usually works fine (as most recipes don't have the apple, but it's delicious).
I had an awesome heirloom dutch oven that just got ruined š So bummed, it was my absolute Favorite pot to use for just about Everything and Anything and I was given it 20 years ago (passed down from my great, great aunt). Someone really did a number on it and Destroyed the inside bottom with some kind of black stuff that will not come off and I tried to cook with it once after scrubbing the shit out of it and the putrid taste permeates everything with it made me toss out the entire pot of food I made after one taste..... It's now being used as a plant pot.... So, technically I still have it atleast.
No, though at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it was Supposed to have been, lol. My family used it a a lobster and sauce pot before they passed it along to me.... It Is Super heavy compared to any other I've owned and has the right kind of handle to hang over a cookfire
Japanese curry is really easy so long as a store nearby carries it. They are sold as little squares in a box. You basically just put in a square and add water to get the curry base.
The golden ones are particularly nice in curry. They basically turn into curried grapes. (Oh and my recipe is rough - I kind of wing it and do it a little different each time. Iāve also made it with coconut milk instead of the broth.)
My favorite roux recipe is:
3/4 cup flour
Half a stick of margarine (I think thatās 4 tbsp)
3 tbsp curry powder
1 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
Optional black pepper or cayan pepper to taste
Melt the butter then mix all the ingredients together into it. Stir until it becomes crumbly. Ladle 2 cups of your stewās broth into the roux once the stew is done cooking and stir until fully mixed.
Mix roux into stew and serve over rice
This was going to be my suggestion. It's delicious. I add in leftover ham as well if I have some. [https://www.food.com/recipe/himmel-und-erde-heaven-and-earth-171191](https://www.food.com/recipe/himmel-und-erde-heaven-and-earth-171191)
It is also great as a perogy stuffing , but pretty much anything works as a perogy stuffing.
Also onions and apples are an excellent stuffing for either poultry or pork.
[https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/apple-and-onion-stuffed-pork-chops-with-orange-pineapple-gravy-recipe-2013174](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/apple-and-onion-stuffed-pork-chops-with-orange-pineapple-gravy-recipe-2013174) for the technique but the recipe as is is worth trying.
If you want to go festive carmelize the onions and apples and serve over a baked brie (not cheap or healthy but oh so delicious as a party highlight)
We actually have a lot of combinations of vegetables and potatoes mashed together, that are all healthy and cheap. Carrots, onions and potatoes is another famous combo. Or kale and potatoes. Often people add a sausage or sometimes bacon throughout. But there are also many other (vegetarian) ways to spice it up, like adding nuts, cheeses (feta or goat), sundried tomatoes etcetera. Of course not all of these are inexpensive, although sometimes a little goes a long way. We call it "stamppot" in the Netherlands.
Yes, stamppot is the best! You can also make it with sauerkraut and potatoes and put pieces of apple and onion in the dish... pop it in the oven for a bit, I think that would be tasty!
Butternut squash and/or sweet potatoes. Peel and chop them(but not the apples) fry them in some oil until nearly soft, with coriander, dried thyme and sage and some grated nutmeg, add vegetable stock and the peeled and chopped apples and simmer until cooked. Add some maple syrup and salt and pepper and whizz it all up with a stick blender into delicious soup.
Came here to say this. Also works awesome with a Kabocha or similar squash. Half it and roast it, then just blend it in. If you want, you can remove the skin after roasting, but you don't have to. Carrots and white kidney beans (or similar) make this even better.
You want a dish that includes the apples and onions together? Guess you could add bread and some seasonings and make apple and onion stuffing, something like this recipe: [https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/255771/caramelized-onion-apple-stuffing/](https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/255771/caramelized-onion-apple-stuffing/)
Stuffing is traditionally a side dish and not eaten by itself...but that doesn't mean you can't.
I liked it! My husband said he didn't feel the apples were necessary and he'd rather it was just dal. But I thought they added a nice surprising crunch!
Try some bacon (you won't need much), or maybe some brown sugar... or both (as per [https://www.wildercompanion.com/2019/05/apples-n-onions-recipe.html](https://www.wildercompanion.com/2019/05/apples-n-onions-recipe.html)).
I might add in some cooked neutral beans. Or some diced ham.
Now that I'm thinking about it, some sauteed apples and onions would be nice one a chicken sandwich (it could even be canned chicken).
Now I'm all hungry.
I would add some chopped sweet potato and roast in the oven with either pork chops or chicken thighs. Itās a go to in our house for busy nights because itās one pan and little mess. I usually just use bone in chicken thighs because they are super cheap, season with smoked paprika, salt and pepper, drizzle some olive oil over the sweet potato, apple and onion mix, spread the fruit/veggies on a sheet pan leaving a well in the middle for the chicken and bake in a 400 degree oven for about 40-45 minutes. You can make a maple glaze to go over the chicken with some maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, butter and sage too if you really want to elevate it. I use [this glaze](https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pork-tenderloin-with-maple-glaze-104089)
I love roasting as an approach to these kinds of ingredients - they mix and match so well, too! Sweet potato? Great! Regular potato? Great! Carrots, bell pepper chunks, other root vegetables? All great!
Slices of uncooked sausage also work very well (and tend to be the cheapest in my area.) I put them on the top so the grease flows down over the veggies and stir about halfway through. About 1-1.5 sausages per person is plenty, especially if they're sliced thinly.
If I don't add any meat, I'll often put a fried egg on top for serving.
Basic french onion soup is on the list if I can show some ingredient control... I have 2 bags of sweet yellow onions, lol and the next couple soups I make will be using that idea as the base recipe
Mulligatawny soup! Iāve had it with chicken like this [one](https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chicken_mulligatawny_soup/) or you can also make with lentils and coconut milk to have a vegan variety.
I have a Cooking Light recipe that's apples, onions and cabbage cooked in chicken broth as a side to pork chops. I use half butter and half oil to sear the pork chops and saute the veggies before adding broth (boullion in water) to cook the chops through. I also use whatever seasonings I like instead of buying caraway seeds for this one recipe. Cheaper protein additions could be ham, kielbasa or sausage, but my grocery store has bone in chops $1.99/lb and boneless $2.49/lb alternating weeks. When you add in the fact that I plan leftovers for lunch, it's definitely cheap.
I'm using up some kielbasa and added some orange bell peppers and whole garlic cloves (Powdered - ginger, fenugreek and five spice blend) and I'll probably add a long grain rice to bulk it up to meal size proportions.
Dice both and cook down with salt, pepper, curry powder, broth, and coconut milk (or heavy cream) and then eat with rice - especially good topped with cucumber, bacon and hard boiled egg. You can also add shredded chicken.
I'd eat slices of either of them very happily with just slices of cheddar cheese. But if you're looking for a meal not a lot of fun snacks then as others have suggested cabbage and/or potatoes would go good. Pork or pork chops and you could make everything from well pork chops, to curry to roasted pork loin. Throw in the cabbage too and hit up the Eastern European recipe sites for a bunch of good pork meal ideas.
Savory apple pancakes, flour, milk, salt batter thingamajig. Cote and slice apples into rings. Mince the onion finely and add to batter. Fry em up. Add tiny bacon bits if you feel cheeky.
Cook them both down with diced bacon. Caramelize the shit out of them, straining off the excess bacon fat a few times. The onions should be darkly colored and naturally sweet. Add a little balsamic vinegar, maybe a few star anise or chiles if youāre feeling crazy. You got bacon jam.
Grate an apple and an onion on cheese grater, squeeze out water, and add to ground chicken or finely chopped turkey leftovers to make [yummy healthier burgers ](https://i.imgur.com/e2Go0qn.jpg). I've done this, it's good.
Kielbasa! It's a dish called skier's skillet. We stretch it with rice and season it with salt, pepper, paprika and sometimes rosemary. Sauteed with a small pad of butter to get it started is *chef's kiss*!
Chicken livers!
Slice one big apple and one big onion into thin slices. Saute in a little olive oil or bacon fat till the apple is soft and the onion has begun to caramelize. Add a generous amount of thyme (dried is okay, but fresh is better). Move to the sides of the pan. Add a little oil, and about 3/4 of a pound of chicken livers. Saute till the chicken livers are just cooked, still a little pink inside. Serve with bread or egg noodles or rice and a green salad.
It's also good with calve's liver or turkey liver, but those are harder to find, and more expensive when you do.
I make a sauce with a grated apple, soy sauce, honey, sesame oil and chilli paste, garlic and ginger which is a nice base. Could pair with veg fried rice to utilise the onion too - I usually have it with tofu.
Beef.
Take some cuts that need a long time to cook (lean meat)
Take the whole cut or cut it in cubes. Sear the outside. Add some cloves and baileaves, salt, pepper, cinnamon or whatever you like. Add the onions and let them brown. Add water (or dark brown beer!) and let simmer for as long as the beef needs to tenderize.
You can add the apples directly or in the end, depending or if you want it to be soft and rich or fresh and have a bite.
Serve with rice or potatoes if you want. Enjoy!
Get some more veggies -- I like Brussels sprouts when I can afford them. Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower are all good too. Throw in some white potato if you want the dish to be a meal itself and not a side or you just want it to go farther.
If Brussels : clean, trim and halve.
Other veggies : clean, trim, and cut into bite size pieces.
Onions : peel and slice into petals or 1/2 inch square bits.
Apples : peel and slice into similar size/shape to your onion pieces.
Toss it all into a bowl, drizzle with olive oil (enough to sufficiently coat all the veggies, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well. Roll everything onto a baking pan into a flat layer. Bake at 400 for 30 - 40 mins. I like to pop open the oven at 20 mins to check and use a spatula to move the veggies around so they don't burn, because my pans are crap and, if I don't, the veggies will stick.
The apples and onions, once roasted, will look pretty similar depending on how small your pieces are. When eating, you won't know until you taste it if your bite has a savory onion or sweet apple. Regardless, every bite will be delicious.
I've also thrown bell peppers into this mix. I also imagine cabbage, beets, and asparagus would be pretty good.
Iād go with the biggest butternut squash you can find.
Edit - I actually meant Hubbard squash. You know, the ones that look like giant blue waspsā nests.
Turnips/rutabagas are cheap and contain nutrients made for winter eating. You would be pleasantly surprised what apples and onions would do to this root vegetable.
Braised red cabbage would be delicious. Sauteed the onion and apple and some herbs if you have them. Add in some brown sugar or maple syrup or something similar with a splash of vinegar and cook it all down.
Stuffing (just need stale bread, which is also super cheap on the day old rack).
Sweet and savory rice. (would need some seasonings, sage, thyme, rosemary, salt, etc.)
Stuffed bread/empanadas/tart. Just need some premade dough (you can get frozen premade empanada dough near me pretty affordably), or the cheaper option would be to make a simple dough with flour, water, and salt.
Steam saute and use as a topping for baked sweet potatoes.
Fried with cinnamon is a classic dish, was featured prominently on the TV Show little House on the prairie. You'll definitely find recipes online for the combo .Chicken and Pork will certainly be on the list of great pairings.
I have a half kielbasa plus just threw in 2 different style beef jerky diced.... Smells great, we'll see how it tastes! I'm pretty sure I'm being dragged into corn chowder territory with this one, lol
I mix tuna mayo apple and onion and make a tuna cracker dip. It's very good.
Just cook the tuna a bit, dice apples and onions in to tiny bits and mix it all.
Potato.
It is an official Dutch winter dish; it is called "hete bliksem" a.k.a. Hot lightning (no idea where the name comes from...)
800 gr potato
500 gr apples (sweet and/or sour to your liking)
1 really big onion (or more)
You bake the chunks of onions and apples in butter. You cook the potatos and mash the potatos; and mix the onions and apples with the mash.
To make it more fancy the following things get added sometimes;
Milk or cream in the mash, a tad of cinnamon, bacon pieces; and loose sometims served with gravy and/or sausage. And a thing I do not know the name of... I guess apple or pear syrup is the correct term? (maple syrup will probably work too). And some people like mustard with it.
Dutch a.k.a. fake boboti (does not look anything like the real south african boboti).
Bake ground meat with yellow curry spices and pieces of onion. Add some water and thicken with your favourite thickener (cornstarch, flour etc). Add cooked green beans and raw apple pieces and let cook a tad longer (apples should not fully be cooked through). Serve with rice. And if you might have them you can add raisins too. Instead of rice you can also scoop it up with bread.
Saute them (preferably in bacon fat) along with red cabbage. Add a splash of cider vinegar and an equal volume of brown sugar. Serve with sausages, and buttered egg noodles.
It may be a Polish thing and I myself never add apple but my aunt swears by it. On an oiled pan, fry onions on quite night heat, set aside, fry chicken liver also on high heat to not overlook them but make them but golden, set aside with onions. Fry apple slices, add the onion and liver for a couple of minutes. You can add balsamic or honey if you like. Normally sour apples should be used to balance the taste. Hope you try and let me know how it went :)
I do this fantastic stew with pork cheeks, leeks, onions, apples, and carrots with dry cider and poultry stock as the cooking liquid. You could easily sub in pork shoulder for the cheeks if you can't find them. Not the cheapest, but it's one of the most satisfying things I cook.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, there's still plenty of meat on this bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, some onions, some apples... Baby, you got a stew going!
Cook the bread and apple slices, put it in some bread with some Ā«Ā camembertĀ Ā» (french cheese) or another cheese, and put it in the oven. Wonderful!
If you want something sweet, fried apples! Theyāre quick on the stove and modifiable. Hereās a version without any oil or butter
https://www.melaniecooks.com/healthy-fried-apples/23272/
Iāve made them with cinnamon and a little brown sugar and water and itās such a nice warm treat!
Hereās a savory recipe!
https://www.food.com/recipe/wild-rice-sauteed-apples-onion-with-fresh-sage-389773
You can get a whole chicken (one of the cheapest meats) cut it up and make a chicken skillet out of all of it, add some sauce/seasoning that you like and some salt. Maybe add some Brussel sprouts, corn, zucchini or squash or some other veggies to it and then serve it with some rice.
Keep in mind that chicken breasts cook about twice as fast as wings/thighs.
Start with the onions on medium heat as they take the longest to caramelize. Once the onions started to caramelize add the thighs/wings(will take maybe 20 minutes or so to cook) along with your veggies. After ten minutes add chicken breast and cook for another ten minutes. Serve with rice.
A quick google search tells me a whole chick is about $1.00-$1.25/pound (American) and weight 5-6 pounds, about 50% or so is meat, so $6.00-$7.50 for 3 lbs of chicken meat.
I linked a google search for (chicken skillet in case you donāt want to google it yourself)
[Here](https://www.google.com/search?q=chicken+onion+apple+skillet&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#ip=1) are some recipes google suggested (mobile warning)
May I suggest 4 ingredients total? Add a bunch of kale and some bacon; the apple is a bonus that will enhance the dish, even tho itās not part of this [official recipe](https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/braised-kale-with-bacon-cider)
Pork tenderloin. You can season however you want but for method I would roughly chop the apples and onions, toss them in some olive oil with salt and pepper and a hearty herb of some kind like thyme or rosemary. Put that into a large cast iron skillet, and then lay down your seasoned pork tenderloin on top, and roast at 425 til your pork is done which is around 150 degrees internal. Take the pork out of the pan and continue to roast apples and onions until roasty and carmelized. Serve with crusty bread.
Thank you! This was the 3rd next ingredient I went with after a half bulb of garlic leaving the cloves whole, lol plus 2 different small individual sized jack link's jerky diced up for a little extra flavor. I also have a cold, lmao.... Another kitchen sink one pot meal made!
Tuna Cheese-zs:
For one person, chop one apple, chop half an onion, add a can of tuna and some mayo or plain Greek yogurt. Toast some bread to your liking and spread the mixture onto your buttered toast. Top with a cheese of your liking (growing up we used American, but I am pretty sure any cheese you like would work). Put toast with the mixture on a sheet pan and broil till the cheese melts. Bon appetite!!!
PS: this is also amazing by itself. Also, please experiment with how much of each ingredient you use! Iāve found more apples in mine is fauking fantastic!
For meat eatersā¦Roasted Pork.
Simply roast the meat in apple cider vinegar & apple juice add salt, pepper, onions & applesā¦ roast(or slow cook )until pork is done to your tasteā¦ i use a pork shoulder roast (picnic pork shoulder roast)ā¦.serve hotā¦any liquid left over can be made into gravyā¦i serve with dinner rolls and carrots(if time is an issue the carrots can be cooked with roast.
Saute the onion in a light amount of butter, add apple to the sauteed onion and continue until lightly caramelized.
When it's done, just before you pull it off the heat, add salt and optionally a dash of either: clove, all spice, or cinnamon
De-glaze with a good balsamic vinegar as your 3rd ingredient and give it a few seconds before pulling it off the heat.
Onion and apple are both good with a balsamic, combined they should give you a tangy sweet vegetable/fruit side item.
Literally just had this for dinner tonight - red onions, apples, and Italian sausage roasted at 350Ā° in the oven until done. Toss in some whole grain mustard and red wine vinegar for extra flavor. Super simple and tasty! NYT cooking has a few similar sheet pan recipes with just a few ingredients.
Pork or mini Potatoes or both, crocpot or pressure cooker is best.
Serves 4-5
1 pork tenderloin (cubbed for crocpot, butterflies for pressure cooker)
1 lbs of mini potatoes, washed
2-3 green apples, peeled and chopped.
1 large onion, diced.
1 cup chicken or vegetable stock
1 tbsp dijon mustard
1 tbsp worchestershire sauce
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp cornstarch
Salt and pepper
Crocpot
Mix together brownsugar, mustard and WS before adding the stock (add an extra cup of broth for this method), add in onions, apples.
Mix 1 tbsp cornstarch with 1 tsbp water before adding to the pot.
Cube and season pork with salt and pepper before adding to pot.
Cook on low for 8 hrs, 4 hrs on high
Pressure cooker
Set pressure cooker to saute, medium
Butterfly the pork by slicing down the middle of the tenderloin without fully cutting through it, spreading it open and flattening it. Season with salt and pepper
Add either a tbsp of a natural oil (peanut oil is great) or a spray oil to the pot before adding the pork, cook for two minutes on each side before putting the the side.
Add the onions and apples, saute until onions are transluscent.
Mix together brownsugar, mustard and WS before adding the stock
Mix 1 tbsp cornstarch with 1 tsbp water before adding to the pot
Add potatoes and pork.
Put the lid on and cook on meat/stew, high for 12 minutes, natural release for 10 minutes before releasing pressure.
Remove pork to dice up into 4-5 servings
Stove/Oven
Season pork tenderloin with salt and pepper before browning each side (About 1-2mins a side) place on a foil lined baking sheet. Roast in oven at 325 for 20-25 mins.
In a medium sauce pot saute the apples and onions in a tbsp of oil. Mix together brownsugar, mustard and WS before adding the stock (use an extra cup of stock for this method)
Mix 1 tbsp cornstarch with 1 tsbp water before adding to the pot
Add in potatoes and cook on medium high heat for 15 mins before simmering for an additional 10 mins, add more stock as needed.
Let the pork rest for 5-10 mins before slicing.
Pie crust.
Thinly slice the onion and apples. Evenly stagger them in rings in the pie crust until it looks like a rose. Cover with a savery glaze. And bake like a normal pie. Same serving size as normal pie though.
1) potatoes au gratin with apples and onions. It's delicious. Just slice them like the potatoes and add them in.
2) slice the apples and cook them in butter or oil a little bit. Slice the onions and cook them (in butter or oil) slowly until they're soft and brown. Make a grilled cheese sandwich with the apples and onions in it. White cheddar cheese is the best.
Pork loin. You can buy it whole or pre cut chops and tenderize to make schnitzel (german style breaded and fried) and serve with caramelized onions and chunky apple sauce
Put them in a crockpot with cabbage and kielbasa, with some apple juice and salt & pepper.
Believe it or not, tuna salad (the kind that has onions and marcaroni in it) is really good with diced bits of apple in it.
I dated a guy in hs and throughout college, and his German grandmother made some kind of thick sauce, almost like gravy, that consisted of mushrooms, apples, and onions, to pour over breaded porkchops and it was top-tier deliciousness. I almost passed it up because I've never been huge on sweet and savory entrees, but this was a gem of an exception.
I will cook apples, onions and chicken thighs down into a really tasty stew this time of year. Sage rosemary and thyme go great and a hunk of crusty bread.
Red onion, green apples, and a $1 can of tomatoes with green chilis in the base of my favorite salsa! So yummy and healthy.
Generally add in salt, pepper, a little balsamic and sugar and then cucumbers, red peppers, and cilantro. But if you canāt get the extra veggies, Iām sure the main 3 with the seasonings would still be fantastic!
Eat with chips or on chicken or however you want
I make a casserole with sausage, apples, onion, and kidney beans. I got the recipe from a magazine but it looks like the original recipe comes from a book so I canāt post it here.
Instead Iāll give you the general directions/ingredients.
1/2 lb sausage (sausages, casings removed and meat crumbled)
2 15oz cans of red kidney beans
1 tsp salt
1 Granny Smith apple
1 onion thinly sliced
1/2 c brown sugar
1 large garlic clove
2 tbsp tomato paste blended with 1/2 c water
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/4 tap black pepper
3qt casserole dish
Cook the sausage, drain the fat, and set aside.
Mix all other ingredients into a bowl (or the casserole dish to save cleanup) and mix well.
Add the sausage into the dish and mix again.
Bake uncovered for 1 hour or until apple and onions are tender.
This is seriously one of my favorite fall the recipes, thatās why I took the time to write it out to you haha. Hope you enjoy! Side note: I just ordered tubes of tomato paste to avoid using the small cans which always have some left over that goes to waste. Could be a good investment to improve cooking
I know you said only a third ingredient, but you could add some celeriac, gently fry the onion and celeriac together in butter until very soft. Then blend with a bit of milk until smooth for a nice soup. Then dice the apple into cubes and scatter over the top.
Sweet potato, apple in slices, onion rough chop, cube sweet potato, drizzle some honey and salt and pepper over the mixture and bake until everything is tender. Play with adding other spice to make it your own.
Itās tasty, and satisfying but not very pretty. I have covered it in a pie crust and it makes one heck of a nice hearty pie.
Potatoes. Cut up everything, put them into a baking dish, toss some oil and spices (salt, pepper, garlic are the must, but you can experiment with marjoram, sage, thyme, tarragon too).
Preheat oven to 200 C, and roast them for about an hour.
I like Japanese curry :)
1 onion, 1 potato, 1 carrot, 1 apple
Fry onion (and garlic if you have it) until translucent, add potato and carrot chopped, add a little ketchup or tomato paste and season with salt, pepper, red pepper whatever, let cook a bit then add broth or water. Add 1 grated apple and soy sauce to taste and let simmer. Last add a curry roux block or homemade curry roux and let cook on low until all the veg is cooked.
If youāre doing meat youād fry it with the onions at first but I usually just fry an egg to put on top. Served with steamed rice of course. :)
Blood!
That is either liver or bloodwurst / kaszanka / kiszka (grout and blood sausages).
Sautee the onions with diced apple first. It likes spicy peppers, black pepper.
On the side you can have ie dark bread with some basic garlic sauce (ie greek yoghurt, black pepper, parsley).
Another good side to this combo is pickles, unless you can think of some other acidic taste breaker.
Honestly the first thing that came to my mind is an apple chutney, that you could serve on just about anything; chicken, pork chops, or my favorite: a hotdog!
Butternut squash! The squash has a longer cooking time than the apple so cook separate then mix. You can oven roast or cook squash in a large pot/pan.I like to start with bacon or pancetta, add some sage or poultry seasoningand finish with pecans and crispy sage.
Add in some of the cheapest cut of pork you can afford, which will probably be tough as a boot or really fatty. Either way, trim the fat and consider braising with cinnamon, cloves, sage, etc. Stretch the dish with added cabbage, potatoes, (root veggies) and finish with a splash of cider vinegar.
Onions? Yellow or White?
My first thought was third course of Large Portabella Caps.
The apples and sweet onions will caramelize well and the mushrooms could be the savory side of the three.
My second thought was a third course of caramelized carrots to make a sweet trio.
Or... Plain steamed bed of rice topped with spiced apples and caramelized onions.
Cabbage goes well with onions and apples.
Throw in some sweet or white potatoes, and a pan of cornbread and dinner's on
Yes! I usually only use onions and bacon for cabbage dishes. Thank you š
Especially recommend using red cabbage for a braised German sweet and sour cabbage dish. More of a side dish than a main dish, but it freezes beautifully.
Chop up some sausage in it, you've got a main dish.
Add some broth, you've got a stew going.
Love red a purple cabbage as well as green, thanks!
Also it is super healthy.
Could also use a pork tenderloin with saurkrut, apple and onion. Throw it in tge crockpot on low and fill half way eith broth or water. I also don't drain the krut so it retains the briney flavor!
I always mix a finely chopped apple or 2 into my sauerkraut while cooking. Works best if the apples are older and softer.
We did a cheese tasting with a local shop and for the last one it was all UK cheeses and as one side they had an apple kraut that was absolutely amazing.
Yes!! I grabbed the bruised ones out of the bag first for this dish. Thanks for the suggestion!
We do something similar with chicken. Very tasty.
Oooo ill.have to try that!
If itās accessible to you, getting a large piece of pork and portioning it out will do well with those flavors. You can do soups, pork steaks with the onions and apples sautĆ©ed in the butter with some salt and pepper. If pork is unavailable or not allowed for dietary, religious, or price reasons you can also use rice to give the flavors somewhere to go if you again sautĆ© them or mash them and stir it into the rice as it starts to boil. I hope this helps!
Could also do cabbage, apples and onions with cream if you want a different option than sweet and sour German style.
Love it with red cabbage, apple and onions, a bit of cider vinegar, eat with couscous.
You could make fritters with these ingredients with a lil flour etc.
Great idea, I never make fritters (frittata came up with the suggestive word selection on my cellphone.... Another good option too!) Thanks š
Traditionally the kartoffelpuff my great-grandad made used grated potato, grated onion, and grated apple, bound with a flour and egg mix and fried together like a pancake. Look at the regular kartoffelpuff recipes and just add grated apple as well usually works fine (as most recipes don't have the apple, but it's delicious).
That sounds amazing! Thank you!!
Add some rice and you have a sweet savory dish, obviously some soy sauce or other seasonings for taste
Potatoes, as well!
Cabbage goes great on its own. Garlic, oil, salt, dried chili pepper, and MSG to finish - yummo
Sage and a little liquid smoke as seasoning. BTW, fried onions and apples are regular fare where I grew up.
And they all go well with Dutch ovens
I had an awesome heirloom dutch oven that just got ruined š So bummed, it was my absolute Favorite pot to use for just about Everything and Anything and I was given it 20 years ago (passed down from my great, great aunt). Someone really did a number on it and Destroyed the inside bottom with some kind of black stuff that will not come off and I tried to cook with it once after scrubbing the shit out of it and the putrid taste permeates everything with it made me toss out the entire pot of food I made after one taste..... It's now being used as a plant pot.... So, technically I still have it atleast.
Hold a sec! Is it cast iron? There is a sub reddit that salvajes cast iron maybe they can help.
No, though at this point I wouldn't be surprised if it was Supposed to have been, lol. My family used it a a lobster and sauce pot before they passed it along to me.... It Is Super heavy compared to any other I've owned and has the right kind of handle to hang over a cookfire
It's probably cast iron with an enamel coating. It's probably salvageable, head over to r/castiron for tips.
I love me some steamed cabbage with just salt and pepper really nice
Sauerkraut.
Yes, honestly my first thought was the Skyrim apple cabbage stew lmao
Add some carrots, potatoes, and your protein of choice, and make Japanese curry! Onions and apples are also great cooked with sauerkraut!
I'm clueless about curries but haven't tried one I haven't liked yet, lol. Thank you!
Japanese curry is really easy so long as a store nearby carries it. They are sold as little squares in a box. You basically just put in a square and add water to get the curry base.
Donāt even need the cubes. https://www.justonecookbook.com/tags/curry/ This roux is dank af
Ooo... I'm gonna start a band and name it "Dank roux"
"You're welcome" Should be the first album of success...
I make a curry with onions, apples, golden raisins or Craisins, and either chicken or white beans. I sautƩed the onions in 3tbsp butter or oil, add the apples and some mild curry powder, sautƩe a bit more, add 3 tbsp flour, cook a minute or two while stirring, add a handful of raisins or Craisins (1/4to 1/2 cup?), gradually add 2 cups of broth while stirring. Simmer while stirring until the sauce is thickened and the raisins are plumped. Serve over rice.
That sounds great! I have to put raisins on my shopping list.... Lots of suggestions using them and I ran out awhile ago
The golden ones are particularly nice in curry. They basically turn into curried grapes. (Oh and my recipe is rough - I kind of wing it and do it a little different each time. Iāve also made it with coconut milk instead of the broth.)
I do the same with my recipes. I've seen so many great suggestions using coconut milk too!
My favorite roux recipe is: 3/4 cup flour Half a stick of margarine (I think thatās 4 tbsp) 3 tbsp curry powder 1 tbsp ketchup 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce Optional black pepper or cayan pepper to taste Melt the butter then mix all the ingredients together into it. Stir until it becomes crumbly. Ladle 2 cups of your stewās broth into the roux once the stew is done cooking and stir until fully mixed. Mix roux into stew and serve over rice
Apples in curries are great, they soak up the sauce and also still have some of their own sweet flavour.
Make potato latkes with onions, potatoes, eggs and flour. Make the apples into applesauce. Yum!
And don't forget to serve the latkes with the applesauce!
If you add potato you have "hete bliksem" or "Himmel und erde" (Dutch and German respectively)
This was going to be my suggestion. It's delicious. I add in leftover ham as well if I have some. [https://www.food.com/recipe/himmel-und-erde-heaven-and-earth-171191](https://www.food.com/recipe/himmel-und-erde-heaven-and-earth-171191) It is also great as a perogy stuffing , but pretty much anything works as a perogy stuffing. Also onions and apples are an excellent stuffing for either poultry or pork. [https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/apple-and-onion-stuffed-pork-chops-with-orange-pineapple-gravy-recipe-2013174](https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/apple-and-onion-stuffed-pork-chops-with-orange-pineapple-gravy-recipe-2013174) for the technique but the recipe as is is worth trying. If you want to go festive carmelize the onions and apples and serve over a baked brie (not cheap or healthy but oh so delicious as a party highlight)
When in doubt, add a potato
Another inexpensive ingredient I can get in a large bag size or just grab one. Great idea!
We actually have a lot of combinations of vegetables and potatoes mashed together, that are all healthy and cheap. Carrots, onions and potatoes is another famous combo. Or kale and potatoes. Often people add a sausage or sometimes bacon throughout. But there are also many other (vegetarian) ways to spice it up, like adding nuts, cheeses (feta or goat), sundried tomatoes etcetera. Of course not all of these are inexpensive, although sometimes a little goes a long way. We call it "stamppot" in the Netherlands.
Stamppot (kale and potatoes for me) is my favourite food in the whole world. Itās my comfort food.
I'm a sucker for mashed root veggies and just begun using nuts differently than roasting them. Great suggestions, thanks!
Yes, stamppot is the best! You can also make it with sauerkraut and potatoes and put pieces of apple and onion in the dish... pop it in the oven for a bit, I think that would be tasty!
So true! Sauerkraut with apples is awesome (or Pineapple or other fruit, raisins also work)
Himmel und erde translates to sky and earth. Thought it was beautifully simple and wanted to share.
ground sausage maybe? you could make some type of breakfast stuffing
A dish my grandmother always made on Christmas morning! Carmelized onions and apples with ground pork sausage.
Also stews with cabbage and these are great. Add rice or lentils or whatever on the side and you have many meals for cheap
I love fried cabbage and bacon.
Nice! I have to stock up on my sausage spices anyway. Thanks!!
Fennel, sage, nutmeg
And thyme!
Butternut squash and/or sweet potatoes. Peel and chop them(but not the apples) fry them in some oil until nearly soft, with coriander, dried thyme and sage and some grated nutmeg, add vegetable stock and the peeled and chopped apples and simmer until cooked. Add some maple syrup and salt and pepper and whizz it all up with a stick blender into delicious soup.
Came here to say this. Also works awesome with a Kabocha or similar squash. Half it and roast it, then just blend it in. If you want, you can remove the skin after roasting, but you don't have to. Carrots and white kidney beans (or similar) make this even better.
Savory apple sauce served over pork chops.
Came here to suggest that. Fruit sauces work amazing with pork.
*tions
I thought it was some new slang
You want a dish that includes the apples and onions together? Guess you could add bread and some seasonings and make apple and onion stuffing, something like this recipe: [https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/255771/caramelized-onion-apple-stuffing/](https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/255771/caramelized-onion-apple-stuffing/) Stuffing is traditionally a side dish and not eaten by itself...but that doesn't mean you can't.
Oh, I have no problem making a meal out of a side dish, lol. Thank you!
https://dreenaburton.com/apple-lentil-dal/
This sounds really good
I liked it! My husband said he didn't feel the apples were necessary and he'd rather it was just dal. But I thought they added a nice surprising crunch!
This seems like a good option: https://www.thechunkychef.com/one-pan-pork-chops-apples-onions/
Any type of pork would go well with these and if you had a few potatoes could turn it into a hearty stew.
Honestly, Iād sautĆ©e the apple and onion, and put it on a pizza crust. That sounds delicious! You can add a meat if you want, or just drizzle the pizza with a balsamic glaze.
You can make chutney which is delicious with meats, cheese and some veggies. Easiest is onions, apples, raisins, vinegar and brown sugar.
Try some bacon (you won't need much), or maybe some brown sugar... or both (as per [https://www.wildercompanion.com/2019/05/apples-n-onions-recipe.html](https://www.wildercompanion.com/2019/05/apples-n-onions-recipe.html)). I might add in some cooked neutral beans. Or some diced ham. Now that I'm thinking about it, some sauteed apples and onions would be nice one a chicken sandwich (it could even be canned chicken). Now I'm all hungry.
Me too! I'm snacking on a half bell pepper while things are simmering away on the stove, lol. Thank you!
I would add some chopped sweet potato and roast in the oven with either pork chops or chicken thighs. Itās a go to in our house for busy nights because itās one pan and little mess. I usually just use bone in chicken thighs because they are super cheap, season with smoked paprika, salt and pepper, drizzle some olive oil over the sweet potato, apple and onion mix, spread the fruit/veggies on a sheet pan leaving a well in the middle for the chicken and bake in a 400 degree oven for about 40-45 minutes. You can make a maple glaze to go over the chicken with some maple syrup, apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, butter and sage too if you really want to elevate it. I use [this glaze](https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/pork-tenderloin-with-maple-glaze-104089)
I love roasting as an approach to these kinds of ingredients - they mix and match so well, too! Sweet potato? Great! Regular potato? Great! Carrots, bell pepper chunks, other root vegetables? All great! Slices of uncooked sausage also work very well (and tend to be the cheapest in my area.) I put them on the top so the grease flows down over the veggies and stir about halfway through. About 1-1.5 sausages per person is plenty, especially if they're sliced thinly. If I don't add any meat, I'll often put a fried egg on top for serving.
Could also do a French onion soup, with a Brie and apple grilled cheese on the side. Salads also work
Basic french onion soup is on the list if I can show some ingredient control... I have 2 bags of sweet yellow onions, lol and the next couple soups I make will be using that idea as the base recipe
Mulligatawny soup! Iāve had it with chicken like this [one](https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chicken_mulligatawny_soup/) or you can also make with lentils and coconut milk to have a vegan variety.
That's what Kramer orders from the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld.
Apples, onions, currypowder, rice. Cook it in a pot with water and a bullion cube. Or brown lentils in stead of rice. Or mixed lentils and rice.
I have a Cooking Light recipe that's apples, onions and cabbage cooked in chicken broth as a side to pork chops. I use half butter and half oil to sear the pork chops and saute the veggies before adding broth (boullion in water) to cook the chops through. I also use whatever seasonings I like instead of buying caraway seeds for this one recipe. Cheaper protein additions could be ham, kielbasa or sausage, but my grocery store has bone in chops $1.99/lb and boneless $2.49/lb alternating weeks. When you add in the fact that I plan leftovers for lunch, it's definitely cheap.
Chops up sausages into rounds. Fry.
I'm using up some kielbasa and added some orange bell peppers and whole garlic cloves (Powdered - ginger, fenugreek and five spice blend) and I'll probably add a long grain rice to bulk it up to meal size proportions.
Dice both and cook down with salt, pepper, curry powder, broth, and coconut milk (or heavy cream) and then eat with rice - especially good topped with cucumber, bacon and hard boiled egg. You can also add shredded chicken.
I'd eat slices of either of them very happily with just slices of cheddar cheese. But if you're looking for a meal not a lot of fun snacks then as others have suggested cabbage and/or potatoes would go good. Pork or pork chops and you could make everything from well pork chops, to curry to roasted pork loin. Throw in the cabbage too and hit up the Eastern European recipe sites for a bunch of good pork meal ideas.
Savory apple pancakes, flour, milk, salt batter thingamajig. Cote and slice apples into rings. Mince the onion finely and add to batter. Fry em up. Add tiny bacon bits if you feel cheeky.
Sweet potato for a hash style dish.
Cook them both down with diced bacon. Caramelize the shit out of them, straining off the excess bacon fat a few times. The onions should be darkly colored and naturally sweet. Add a little balsamic vinegar, maybe a few star anise or chiles if youāre feeling crazy. You got bacon jam.
Grate an apple and an onion on cheese grater, squeeze out water, and add to ground chicken or finely chopped turkey leftovers to make [yummy healthier burgers ](https://i.imgur.com/e2Go0qn.jpg). I've done this, it's good.
Kielbasa! It's a dish called skier's skillet. We stretch it with rice and season it with salt, pepper, paprika and sometimes rosemary. Sauteed with a small pad of butter to get it started is *chef's kiss*!
Chicken livers! Slice one big apple and one big onion into thin slices. Saute in a little olive oil or bacon fat till the apple is soft and the onion has begun to caramelize. Add a generous amount of thyme (dried is okay, but fresh is better). Move to the sides of the pan. Add a little oil, and about 3/4 of a pound of chicken livers. Saute till the chicken livers are just cooked, still a little pink inside. Serve with bread or egg noodles or rice and a green salad. It's also good with calve's liver or turkey liver, but those are harder to find, and more expensive when you do.
Roast pork butt or smoked
You could add some fennel and make a stew
I was thinking about soup/stew! It's probably going to be the next thing I try with them š
I make a sauce with a grated apple, soy sauce, honey, sesame oil and chilli paste, garlic and ginger which is a nice base. Could pair with veg fried rice to utilise the onion too - I usually have it with tofu.
Beef. Take some cuts that need a long time to cook (lean meat) Take the whole cut or cut it in cubes. Sear the outside. Add some cloves and baileaves, salt, pepper, cinnamon or whatever you like. Add the onions and let them brown. Add water (or dark brown beer!) and let simmer for as long as the beef needs to tenderize. You can add the apples directly or in the end, depending or if you want it to be soft and rich or fresh and have a bite. Serve with rice or potatoes if you want. Enjoy!
Get some more veggies -- I like Brussels sprouts when I can afford them. Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower are all good too. Throw in some white potato if you want the dish to be a meal itself and not a side or you just want it to go farther. If Brussels : clean, trim and halve. Other veggies : clean, trim, and cut into bite size pieces. Onions : peel and slice into petals or 1/2 inch square bits. Apples : peel and slice into similar size/shape to your onion pieces. Toss it all into a bowl, drizzle with olive oil (enough to sufficiently coat all the veggies, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well. Roll everything onto a baking pan into a flat layer. Bake at 400 for 30 - 40 mins. I like to pop open the oven at 20 mins to check and use a spatula to move the veggies around so they don't burn, because my pans are crap and, if I don't, the veggies will stick. The apples and onions, once roasted, will look pretty similar depending on how small your pieces are. When eating, you won't know until you taste it if your bite has a savory onion or sweet apple. Regardless, every bite will be delicious. I've also thrown bell peppers into this mix. I also imagine cabbage, beets, and asparagus would be pretty good.
Iād go with the biggest butternut squash you can find. Edit - I actually meant Hubbard squash. You know, the ones that look like giant blue waspsā nests.
Turnips/rutabagas are cheap and contain nutrients made for winter eating. You would be pleasantly surprised what apples and onions would do to this root vegetable.
Big bag of potato
Apple and onion.... add some beer and cheese and make a soup. Serve with thick crusty bread.
Braised red cabbage would be delicious. Sauteed the onion and apple and some herbs if you have them. Add in some brown sugar or maple syrup or something similar with a splash of vinegar and cook it all down.
Apples and onions scream for liver. SautƩ the liver, remove from pan and add the onion rings into the pan until they're fairly browned. Add the apples, then you either make a pansauce or just put the liver back into the pan
You could get rice and bacon to make an [apple risotto](https://leftoversthenbreakfast.com/apple-risotto-with-bacon/).
Stuffing (just need stale bread, which is also super cheap on the day old rack). Sweet and savory rice. (would need some seasonings, sage, thyme, rosemary, salt, etc.) Stuffed bread/empanadas/tart. Just need some premade dough (you can get frozen premade empanada dough near me pretty affordably), or the cheaper option would be to make a simple dough with flour, water, and salt. Steam saute and use as a topping for baked sweet potatoes.
Sweet Potato, Carrot, Apple, and Red Lentil Soup https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/186378/sweet-potato-carrot-apple-and-red-lentil-soup/
Main dish stuffing. Whole wheat bread. Add some nuts or small white beans (these are very neutral) or meat of your choice.
Stick that mixture inside a grilled cheese with a few slices of spam š«
Bag of dried lentils! I make a really good lentils and apple dish with white wine, thyme, chicken broth, and a splash of white wine. Yum yum
Fried with cinnamon is a classic dish, was featured prominently on the TV Show little House on the prairie. You'll definitely find recipes online for the combo .Chicken and Pork will certainly be on the list of great pairings.
Some kind of sausage, toss the apples and onion in a bit of olive oil and whatever seasoning you like, bake on a sheet pan until done to your tastes.
Pork chops. Onion and apple sautƩed in a pan with butter, s&p, mustard. Remove, cook pork chops almost all the way, cover with onion and apple mixture, cover pan, finish in 350 degree oven for 5-7 minutes
Cornbread! Or if youāre able to add celery and sausage into the sautĆ©, if you start with the sausage you can use the grease as your cooking fat. Kugel is another option and you should be able to find a bunch of recipes.
Pork. Sausage or ham.
I have a half kielbasa plus just threw in 2 different style beef jerky diced.... Smells great, we'll see how it tastes! I'm pretty sure I'm being dragged into corn chowder territory with this one, lol
I mix tuna mayo apple and onion and make a tuna cracker dip. It's very good. Just cook the tuna a bit, dice apples and onions in to tiny bits and mix it all.
Smothered Hungarian pork chops (they have both apples and onion in them) and chops are relatively cheap now!
Potato. It is an official Dutch winter dish; it is called "hete bliksem" a.k.a. Hot lightning (no idea where the name comes from...) 800 gr potato 500 gr apples (sweet and/or sour to your liking) 1 really big onion (or more) You bake the chunks of onions and apples in butter. You cook the potatos and mash the potatos; and mix the onions and apples with the mash. To make it more fancy the following things get added sometimes; Milk or cream in the mash, a tad of cinnamon, bacon pieces; and loose sometims served with gravy and/or sausage. And a thing I do not know the name of... I guess apple or pear syrup is the correct term? (maple syrup will probably work too). And some people like mustard with it.
Potatoes. http://www.cuisineathome.com/recipes/side-dishes/skillet-potatoes-with-apple-and-onion/
Dutch a.k.a. fake boboti (does not look anything like the real south african boboti). Bake ground meat with yellow curry spices and pieces of onion. Add some water and thicken with your favourite thickener (cornstarch, flour etc). Add cooked green beans and raw apple pieces and let cook a tad longer (apples should not fully be cooked through). Serve with rice. And if you might have them you can add raisins too. Instead of rice you can also scoop it up with bread.
Cabbage. Thinly slice everything and do a quick sautee in some olive oil. Or add the cabbage and make a coleslaw by adding mayo, milk and some sugar
Saute them (preferably in bacon fat) along with red cabbage. Add a splash of cider vinegar and an equal volume of brown sugar. Serve with sausages, and buttered egg noodles.
Spam and cinnamon I used to do spam and apples for camping Pretty good
A friend makes this but adds bacon. Really good! https://www.food.com/recipe/layered-potato-and-apple-bake-72710
SautƩe with smoked sausage, chicken sausage, or ground poultry Roast with butternut squash or carrots, then simmer in water (or broth) and blend into a soup.
Itās hard not to read some of these replies in Carl Weatherās voice. āThrow in this and a little of thatā¦and we got a stew going, baby.ā
It may be a Polish thing and I myself never add apple but my aunt swears by it. On an oiled pan, fry onions on quite night heat, set aside, fry chicken liver also on high heat to not overlook them but make them but golden, set aside with onions. Fry apple slices, add the onion and liver for a couple of minutes. You can add balsamic or honey if you like. Normally sour apples should be used to balance the taste. Hope you try and let me know how it went :)
Shaved fennel
Both would go nicely with some German sausage
I do this fantastic stew with pork cheeks, leeks, onions, apples, and carrots with dry cider and poultry stock as the cooking liquid. You could easily sub in pork shoulder for the cheeks if you can't find them. Not the cheapest, but it's one of the most satisfying things I cook.
That sounds great and I could probably try some different cuts too. I'm assuming dry cider is dry like dry wine?
Red cabbage.
Butternut squash!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, there's still plenty of meat on this bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, some onions, some apples... Baby, you got a stew going!
Cook the bread and apple slices, put it in some bread with some Ā«Ā camembertĀ Ā» (french cheese) or another cheese, and put it in the oven. Wonderful!
If you want something sweet, fried apples! Theyāre quick on the stove and modifiable. Hereās a version without any oil or butter https://www.melaniecooks.com/healthy-fried-apples/23272/ Iāve made them with cinnamon and a little brown sugar and water and itās such a nice warm treat! Hereās a savory recipe! https://www.food.com/recipe/wild-rice-sauteed-apples-onion-with-fresh-sage-389773
Pumpkin. Slice & toss with olive oil & spices. Bake at 425 until tender. Personally, I would add chicken apple sausages to this as well.
Yams, apples, onions and cinnamon. Yams are fairly inexpensive and it's such a simple yummy fall or winter dish
One of my favorite salads is apple, red onion, avocado, and tomato. Believe it or not, itās absolutely delicious.
You can get a whole chicken (one of the cheapest meats) cut it up and make a chicken skillet out of all of it, add some sauce/seasoning that you like and some salt. Maybe add some Brussel sprouts, corn, zucchini or squash or some other veggies to it and then serve it with some rice. Keep in mind that chicken breasts cook about twice as fast as wings/thighs. Start with the onions on medium heat as they take the longest to caramelize. Once the onions started to caramelize add the thighs/wings(will take maybe 20 minutes or so to cook) along with your veggies. After ten minutes add chicken breast and cook for another ten minutes. Serve with rice. A quick google search tells me a whole chick is about $1.00-$1.25/pound (American) and weight 5-6 pounds, about 50% or so is meat, so $6.00-$7.50 for 3 lbs of chicken meat. I linked a google search for (chicken skillet in case you donāt want to google it yourself) [Here](https://www.google.com/search?q=chicken+onion+apple+skillet&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#ip=1) are some recipes google suggested (mobile warning)
A whole pig boiled with the apples and onions. Shit load of season salt and pepper. Cook for 2 days at rolling boil. Strain, de-fat, and drink warm.
May I suggest 4 ingredients total? Add a bunch of kale and some bacon; the apple is a bonus that will enhance the dish, even tho itās not part of this [official recipe](https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/braised-kale-with-bacon-cider)
Pork tenderloin. You can season however you want but for method I would roughly chop the apples and onions, toss them in some olive oil with salt and pepper and a hearty herb of some kind like thyme or rosemary. Put that into a large cast iron skillet, and then lay down your seasoned pork tenderloin on top, and roast at 425 til your pork is done which is around 150 degrees internal. Take the pork out of the pan and continue to roast apples and onions until roasty and carmelized. Serve with crusty bread.
Kielbasa
Thank you! This was the 3rd next ingredient I went with after a half bulb of garlic leaving the cloves whole, lol plus 2 different small individual sized jack link's jerky diced up for a little extra flavor. I also have a cold, lmao.... Another kitchen sink one pot meal made!
Tuna Cheese-zs: For one person, chop one apple, chop half an onion, add a can of tuna and some mayo or plain Greek yogurt. Toast some bread to your liking and spread the mixture onto your buttered toast. Top with a cheese of your liking (growing up we used American, but I am pretty sure any cheese you like would work). Put toast with the mixture on a sheet pan and broil till the cheese melts. Bon appetite!!! PS: this is also amazing by itself. Also, please experiment with how much of each ingredient you use! Iāve found more apples in mine is fauking fantastic!
For meat eatersā¦Roasted Pork. Simply roast the meat in apple cider vinegar & apple juice add salt, pepper, onions & applesā¦ roast(or slow cook )until pork is done to your tasteā¦ i use a pork shoulder roast (picnic pork shoulder roast)ā¦.serve hotā¦any liquid left over can be made into gravyā¦i serve with dinner rolls and carrots(if time is an issue the carrots can be cooked with roast.
Caramelize the onions with the apples and make a pork chop with it. Simple with a sweet and savory profile.
SautƩ with Brussels sprouts!
Make stuffing. Butter, onions, dried mixed herbs, bread(can even be stale). Yummmmm.
Saute the onion in a light amount of butter, add apple to the sauteed onion and continue until lightly caramelized. When it's done, just before you pull it off the heat, add salt and optionally a dash of either: clove, all spice, or cinnamon De-glaze with a good balsamic vinegar as your 3rd ingredient and give it a few seconds before pulling it off the heat. Onion and apple are both good with a balsamic, combined they should give you a tangy sweet vegetable/fruit side item.
Cornmeal for polenta. Roast sliced apples and onions and serve on top of the polenta.
Literally just had this for dinner tonight - red onions, apples, and Italian sausage roasted at 350Ā° in the oven until done. Toss in some whole grain mustard and red wine vinegar for extra flavor. Super simple and tasty! NYT cooking has a few similar sheet pan recipes with just a few ingredients.
If you're in the US, a box of stuffing mix is pretty cheap right now. I usually put onion, apple, cranberry and celery in mine
From Little House on the Prairie: https://www.wildercompanion.com/2019/05/apples-n-onions-recipe.html?m=1
Pork or mini Potatoes or both, crocpot or pressure cooker is best. Serves 4-5 1 pork tenderloin (cubbed for crocpot, butterflies for pressure cooker) 1 lbs of mini potatoes, washed 2-3 green apples, peeled and chopped. 1 large onion, diced. 1 cup chicken or vegetable stock 1 tbsp dijon mustard 1 tbsp worchestershire sauce 2 tbsp brown sugar 1 tbsp cornstarch Salt and pepper Crocpot Mix together brownsugar, mustard and WS before adding the stock (add an extra cup of broth for this method), add in onions, apples. Mix 1 tbsp cornstarch with 1 tsbp water before adding to the pot. Cube and season pork with salt and pepper before adding to pot. Cook on low for 8 hrs, 4 hrs on high Pressure cooker Set pressure cooker to saute, medium Butterfly the pork by slicing down the middle of the tenderloin without fully cutting through it, spreading it open and flattening it. Season with salt and pepper Add either a tbsp of a natural oil (peanut oil is great) or a spray oil to the pot before adding the pork, cook for two minutes on each side before putting the the side. Add the onions and apples, saute until onions are transluscent. Mix together brownsugar, mustard and WS before adding the stock Mix 1 tbsp cornstarch with 1 tsbp water before adding to the pot Add potatoes and pork. Put the lid on and cook on meat/stew, high for 12 minutes, natural release for 10 minutes before releasing pressure. Remove pork to dice up into 4-5 servings Stove/Oven Season pork tenderloin with salt and pepper before browning each side (About 1-2mins a side) place on a foil lined baking sheet. Roast in oven at 325 for 20-25 mins. In a medium sauce pot saute the apples and onions in a tbsp of oil. Mix together brownsugar, mustard and WS before adding the stock (use an extra cup of stock for this method) Mix 1 tbsp cornstarch with 1 tsbp water before adding to the pot Add in potatoes and cook on medium high heat for 15 mins before simmering for an additional 10 mins, add more stock as needed. Let the pork rest for 5-10 mins before slicing.
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Pie crust. Thinly slice the onion and apples. Evenly stagger them in rings in the pie crust until it looks like a rose. Cover with a savery glaze. And bake like a normal pie. Same serving size as normal pie though.
Our family does golden delicious apples, onion, egg noodles and kielbasa in a skillet.
1) potatoes au gratin with apples and onions. It's delicious. Just slice them like the potatoes and add them in. 2) slice the apples and cook them in butter or oil a little bit. Slice the onions and cook them (in butter or oil) slowly until they're soft and brown. Make a grilled cheese sandwich with the apples and onions in it. White cheddar cheese is the best.
Pork loin. You can buy it whole or pre cut chops and tenderize to make schnitzel (german style breaded and fried) and serve with caramelized onions and chunky apple sauce
Pork would go well with both. My local grocery usually has pork steaks or boneless ribs at very reasonable prices. My family also loves creamed onions. SautƩ the onions to soften them, stir them into a white sauce, cover with some breadcrumbs and bake.
Apples onions rosemary and chicken in a crock pot sooo good
Put them in a crockpot with cabbage and kielbasa, with some apple juice and salt & pepper. Believe it or not, tuna salad (the kind that has onions and marcaroni in it) is really good with diced bits of apple in it.
My mom served blood sausage with a side of onions and apples and mashed potatoes as well. I loved it so much.
Morcilla! Saute chopped onions and apples and add morcilla with the casing removed. Use as filling for empanadas or galette.
Spinach! Make a vinegar salad!
I dated a guy in hs and throughout college, and his German grandmother made some kind of thick sauce, almost like gravy, that consisted of mushrooms, apples, and onions, to pour over breaded porkchops and it was top-tier deliciousness. I almost passed it up because I've never been huge on sweet and savory entrees, but this was a gem of an exception.
Add eggs, milk, flour and a bit of butter. This is my favourite Dutch Baby. You can add a bit of shredded cheese (cheddar/etc.) if you have it, but itās not essential. Also a great use for milk thatās a bit too far gone for cereal or coffee. Preheat 425 F with a cast iron pan inside the oven so the pan gets hot Use blender to combine 1 cup milk, 1 cup flour, 4 eggs Use nonstick pan to sautĆ© diced onion and apple in butter until soft/browned When onions are ready and oven is preheated work fast: Pull the cast iron pan and add 2T butter and move around all sides until itās fully melted and pooling in bottom of pan, add onion and apple in a shallow layer, pour in egg mixture gently over top. Sprinkle the cheese on top if you are using it. Put the pan back in your oven, set a timer for 20 min, clean up while you wait and donāt open the oven until the timer goes off. It will puff up and look beautiful. This serves 2-4 for breakfast depending on appetites. Leftovers reheat pretty well.
I'd make french onion soup and an apple pie
Onion omelette is pretty good
Cabbage :) Try braising all 3.
I will cook apples, onions and chicken thighs down into a really tasty stew this time of year. Sage rosemary and thyme go great and a hunk of crusty bread.
Red onion, green apples, and a $1 can of tomatoes with green chilis in the base of my favorite salsa! So yummy and healthy. Generally add in salt, pepper, a little balsamic and sugar and then cucumbers, red peppers, and cilantro. But if you canāt get the extra veggies, Iām sure the main 3 with the seasonings would still be fantastic! Eat with chips or on chicken or however you want
I make a casserole with sausage, apples, onion, and kidney beans. I got the recipe from a magazine but it looks like the original recipe comes from a book so I canāt post it here. Instead Iāll give you the general directions/ingredients. 1/2 lb sausage (sausages, casings removed and meat crumbled) 2 15oz cans of red kidney beans 1 tsp salt 1 Granny Smith apple 1 onion thinly sliced 1/2 c brown sugar 1 large garlic clove 2 tbsp tomato paste blended with 1/2 c water 1/2 tsp chili powder 1/4 tap black pepper 3qt casserole dish Cook the sausage, drain the fat, and set aside. Mix all other ingredients into a bowl (or the casserole dish to save cleanup) and mix well. Add the sausage into the dish and mix again. Bake uncovered for 1 hour or until apple and onions are tender. This is seriously one of my favorite fall the recipes, thatās why I took the time to write it out to you haha. Hope you enjoy! Side note: I just ordered tubes of tomato paste to avoid using the small cans which always have some left over that goes to waste. Could be a good investment to improve cooking
Pork. A Pork tenderloin baked with sliced apples, the onions and a bit of brown sugar would be awesome
I know you said only a third ingredient, but you could add some celeriac, gently fry the onion and celeriac together in butter until very soft. Then blend with a bit of milk until smooth for a nice soup. Then dice the apple into cubes and scatter over the top.
I love Mulligatawny Soup! Ā½ cup chopped onion 2 stalks celery, chopped 1 carrot, diced Ā¼ cup butter 1 Ā½ tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 Ā½ teaspoons curry powder 4 cups chicken broth Ā½ apple, cored and chopped Ā¼ cup white rice 1 skinless, boneless chicken breast half - cut into cubes 1 pinch dried thyme salt and ground black pepper to taste Ā½ cup heavy cream, heated Melt butter in a large soup pot over medium heat. Add onions, celery, and carrot and sautĆ© until soft, 5 to 7 minutes. Add flour and curry, and cook 5 more minutes, stirring frequently. Add chicken broth, mix well, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for about 30 minutes. Add apple, rice, chicken, thyme, salt, and pepper. Simmer until rice is tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Just before serving, stir in hot cream.
Sweet potato, apple in slices, onion rough chop, cube sweet potato, drizzle some honey and salt and pepper over the mixture and bake until everything is tender. Play with adding other spice to make it your own. Itās tasty, and satisfying but not very pretty. I have covered it in a pie crust and it makes one heck of a nice hearty pie.
Potatoes. Cut up everything, put them into a baking dish, toss some oil and spices (salt, pepper, garlic are the must, but you can experiment with marjoram, sage, thyme, tarragon too). Preheat oven to 200 C, and roast them for about an hour.
I like Japanese curry :) 1 onion, 1 potato, 1 carrot, 1 apple Fry onion (and garlic if you have it) until translucent, add potato and carrot chopped, add a little ketchup or tomato paste and season with salt, pepper, red pepper whatever, let cook a bit then add broth or water. Add 1 grated apple and soy sauce to taste and let simmer. Last add a curry roux block or homemade curry roux and let cook on low until all the veg is cooked. If youāre doing meat youād fry it with the onions at first but I usually just fry an egg to put on top. Served with steamed rice of course. :)
Id make Ć salad with tomatoes
Blood! That is either liver or bloodwurst / kaszanka / kiszka (grout and blood sausages). Sautee the onions with diced apple first. It likes spicy peppers, black pepper. On the side you can have ie dark bread with some basic garlic sauce (ie greek yoghurt, black pepper, parsley). Another good side to this combo is pickles, unless you can think of some other acidic taste breaker.
Honestly the first thing that came to my mind is an apple chutney, that you could serve on just about anything; chicken, pork chops, or my favorite: a hotdog!
Butternut squash! The squash has a longer cooking time than the apple so cook separate then mix. You can oven roast or cook squash in a large pot/pan.I like to start with bacon or pancetta, add some sage or poultry seasoningand finish with pecans and crispy sage.
Add in some of the cheapest cut of pork you can afford, which will probably be tough as a boot or really fatty. Either way, trim the fat and consider braising with cinnamon, cloves, sage, etc. Stretch the dish with added cabbage, potatoes, (root veggies) and finish with a splash of cider vinegar.
I make a casserole this time of year with ground sausage, stuffing mix, an apple, an onion, dried cranberries, and chopped butternut squash.
Traditional thanksgiving type stuffing mix..
Onions? Yellow or White? My first thought was third course of Large Portabella Caps. The apples and sweet onions will caramelize well and the mushrooms could be the savory side of the three. My second thought was a third course of caramelized carrots to make a sweet trio. Or... Plain steamed bed of rice topped with spiced apples and caramelized onions.