Spring onion
- Form
- Young bulb with trimmed green tops
Tropea Onion
Cipolla Rossa di Tropea Calabria PGI is a sweet onion from a defined Calabrian coastal area, sold as a spring onion, fresh onion or storage onion.
- Protection
- PGI
- Region
- Calabria
- Characteristics
- Spring onion, fresh onion and storage onion
Forms and local types
Fresh onion
- Form
- Fresh bulbs gathered in bunches
Storage onion
- Form
- Dried bulbs, loose or braided
Drying the storage crop
Storage onions dry in rows on the ground, covered by their own leaves, for 8–15 days after harvest. Once dried, the bulbs may have their tops cut off or retain them for braiding. This is the producer’s drying stage, rather than a home-storage timetable.
Try it in the kitchen
Our suggestion: use the fresh forms in a tomato salad and try the storage onion slowly cooked. Choose the product form deliberately: a braided storage onion has been dried after harvest.
Recognize the protected name
For a purchase tied to this origin, look for the full name “Cipolla Rossa di Tropea Calabria” with the PGI indication. A similar name or variety alone does not establish this protected origin.
