Pulled pork tacos with pickled red onions

coffeeguydenton

Had some of the leftover pulled pork from yesterday's butt in tacos today.  Reheated the pork in the oven with a little bit of Coke, served with cilantro, avocado, and topped off with pickled red onions.  Tasted almost as good as it looks.

Pickled red onions

1 1/2 cups red wine vinegar

2 T sugar

1 T kosher salt

1 tsp mustard seed

1 red onion

Bring vinegar to a boil, add sugar, salt and mustard seed, simmer until sugar and salt have dissolved, remove from heat and allow to cool at least 10 minutes. Cut red onion in half and then slice thinly.  Placed onion in 24 oz pasta sauce jar and poured pickling solution over.  Placed in fridge and allowed 12 hours prior to eating.

BuckeyeBob

That looks awesome. I love red pickled onions on tacos.

GeorgeS

Holy crap that looks good! Man you guys give me such great ideas and strive to make new and better things.

Tackman

Leftover pulled pork makes great tacos. Love the pickled onions. Last time I made pickled onions they were too sweet. I will try your recipe. Thanks.

henapple

Great

coffeeguydenton

Tackman said:

Leftover pulled pork makes great tacos. Love the pickled onions. Last time I made pickled onions they were too sweet. I will try your recipe. Thanks.

It's a Bobby Flay recipe.  Tried to go back and add that credit in, but it wouldn't let me edit.

Mickey

Got extra PP and can follow your instructions on onions. Thanks

caliking

Nice! Thanks for the recipe. How long do you think the onions could be kept in the fridge?

coffeeguydenton

As far as I can tell, they should keep for a pretty long time in the fridge (longer than they will ever actually last before they get eaten in my fridge).  From what I understand, months, but that's only based on what I have read and not on experience.

As an aside, when I made them, there wasn't quite enough vinegar to cover all the onions, so I topped it off with white vinegar- just a couple ounces.

Griffin

Looks outstanding. The pickled onions take it over the top.

saluki2007

Thanks for sharing.  Definitely going to make the onions.

coffeeguydenton

Repeated for lunch today, with a new local beer.  Thought I would take more pictures and try to stage them a little better.

Dragonwmatches

How much does the pickling mellow the onions? I have some very picky eaters under this roof....

caliking

That's it. I'm coming over. Whether you like it or not.

500

I had to Pin it again with the new picture. Now all of Pinterest will see it.

pescadorzih

Looks good. I love pickled red onions on tacos. Try stuffing a poblano chili with the pulled pork and some cheese and bake it on the egg. MMMMMM

NDG

Looks very nice.  Thanks for sharing the Pickled Red Onion recipe.  I really enjoy eating them but never made them.

coffeeguydenton

Dragonwmatches said:

How much does the pickling mellow the onions? I have some very picky eaters under this roof....

Mellows them a lot. They don't taste "oniony" at all.

Dyal_SC

Nice! Gonna hafta try that.