What to cook with red onion

306 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use red onion. 55 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Peruvian, Greek and Indian recipes.

recipes use it
306
are built around it
55
median total time
45 min
ready in 30 minutes or less
78

Recipes built around red onion

With red onion, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with red onion

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with red onion, out of 306 recipes.

  • Garlic59% of recipes
  • Tomato37% of recipes
  • Olive oil38% of recipes
  • Cilantro26% of recipes
  • Cumin26% of recipes
  • Bell pepper20% of recipes
  • Lemon24% of recipes
  • Lime19% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 226 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1. Half of them fall between ½ to 1.

Where red onion shows up

Cuisines

  • Peruvian32
  • Greek26
  • Indian26
  • American22

Courses

  • Dinner107
  • Side58
  • Lunch41

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.