I've put too much onion on my macaroni salad and it overwhelms other ingredients. Is there a way to tame down the onion taste?

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I made the mistake of putting all of the chopped onion in my macaroni salad before testing it. Now the onion taste overwhelms all the other ingredients. Any easy way to tame down the onion taste?

Leave it over night eat it tomorrow some of the flavor will have "matured" and be less pungent. Also additional cheese and mustard may help balance the flavours. — Doug, Mar 10 '17 at 19:23
See also: http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/67858/how-do-i-tone-down-onion-sharpness-already-in-the-chicken-salad — Jolenealaska, Mar 10 '17 at 20:44

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 06 '21 at 12:33

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If it goes well with the other ingredients of your salad, you can add some mint of fresh parsley, it will balance a bit the strong onion taste.

answered Apr 06 '21 at 12:33

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 06 '21 at 15:09

A simple solution that works for me when I put too much of an ingredient is to scale up all the other ingredients to that same factor.

For instance, if you've used twice as much onion as you've meant to, you can double all the other ingredients for an end result with the original proportions you had in mind.

Of course, you end up with twice as much food as planned, but to me that is often better than attempting to otherwise fix the flavor and risk making matters worse.

I've put too much onion on my macaroni salad and it overwhelms other ingredients. Is there a way to tame down the onion taste?

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