Generic yellow onion
Yellow onion groups varieties with golden to copper-colored outer coverings, rather than one single cultivar.
- Identifying feature
- Golden to copper-colored outer coverings
- Named examples
- Dorata di Bologna and Ramata di Milano
Try it in the kitchen
Use sliced golden onion as the base of a bean soup, or cook it with mushrooms for a pasta sauce. Choose a named type when comparing it with white onion in the same dish.
In Mutti’s sea-bass recipe, finely chopped golden onion cooks into the tomato sauce.
Ask for the cultivar
Ingegnoli’s catalogue places Dorata di Bologna and Ramata di Milano in its yellow-onion group. Ask separately about growing provenance: a place name in a cultivar’s name does not establish where the bulb you buy was grown.
