cooking onion leaves?

[dickymint]

Ok so I've just harvested my onions and strung them up in the garage. I know have loads of onion leaves and was thinking can I make soup out of them as it seems such a waste to bin them. Scoured the internet but couldn't find anything. Any body tried this? Thinking about sweating them down, adding some stock cubes, straining the stock then adding a load of mushrooms and maybe finishing off with cream.

[dickymint]

unrepentant said:

Hmmm......... Did you dry your onions out before stringing them up? I've always been told this is essential as otherwise they sprout. I've just hung up 100 or so after 2 weeks of dring out in the sun. If you dry them out then the leaves are all dry and............

My method is lift them about 10 days after the leaves have bent over then let them dry for two days in situ. Then I cut the leaves off (still green) and cure them in the garage for a week or so before stringing.
However this year I only have about 30 large ones (averaging 1.5 pounds in weight) and these will be eaten quite quickly, so I've strung them early.

Anyhow did the deed and made onion and mushroom soup consome style. We had a bowl each last night and was fine. Whats left will be spiced up and used tonight with slices of duck and noodles

PS. I use these guys to get many of my veggie plants........ http://www.mammothonion.co.uk/ excellent quality stuff.

Edited by dickymint on Friday 21st September 09:06