Did you know you could sprout onions and then eat those sprouts like green onions? Well, neither did I! Several weeks ago, we got a few yellow onions from Bountiful Baskets, and I didn't use them right away. I've had fresh garlic sprout in the past but never onions. It looked like this first picture on the left by the time I got to it. I thought it was cute! I decided to look up sprouted onions before eating it.
I discovered this page on sprouted onions by the 6x8 Garden and discovered you can do quite a few things with sprouted onions, including but not limited to putting in a bowl of water on the window sill and growing to an acceptable length, then chopping just the green part and using as green onions, or allowing to continue to grow into flowers! Click the link above and check out the onion flowers- pretty cool!I grew my onion sprouts in a wine glass on the windowsill to the length you see below and chopped them up to put in zucchini feta cheese fritters. The growth was fast! Personally, I would cook these instead of eating them raw because they have a strong base toward the bottom. I could smell the onion as I chopped them, and they even made my eyes water a bit! The taste was just like a mild onion taste. :) Cool!
6x8 Garden recommends not eating the actual onion after it has begun to sprout, though. The onion starts to push out nutrients toward the sprouts, and the taste/quality of the onion will go downhill quickly. Do you think you would try this? I should have put the onion back in to regrow and see what happens, but I threw it away. Maybe next time! Try doing this to regrow green onions from the bulb, too.
