Ingredient: Salad or spring onions
Category: Vegetables
Season: Summer
A scallion, also commonly known as spring onion or green onion, is associated with various members of the genus Allium that lack a fully-developed bulb.
They tend to be milder tasting than other onions and are typically steamed and set in salads in western cookery and cooked in many Asian recipes.
Diced scallions are often used in soup, noodle, seafood, and sauce in eastern dishes.
After removing the bottom half-inch or so of the root end, both the white bottoms and the green tops are commonly used.
The species most commonly associated are Welsh onion, "Scallion" is sometimes used for Allium ascalonicum, better known as the Shallot.
Scallions have various common names throughout the world:
Australia: The normal term is spring onion, but the New South Wales Department of Primary industry has introduced the term shallot. This has also required the renaming of shallots to eschalotte.
Brazil: cebolinha-verde, meaning "small green onions" and is usually sold combined with parsley to form "cheiro verde", literally "green smell". "Cebolinha" is also the name of a popular comics character, named so because his scallion-like hair, known in English as Jimmy Five.
Cagayan, Philippines: lasuna especially to dark, green scallions. Used widely in sauces and as garnishes.
Cebu, Philippines: sibuyas dahunan derived from the two local words sibuyas meaning onion and dahunan meaning leafy or with a leaf.
China: They are usually called cong.
Germany: Frühlingszwiebeln, which literally translates to spring onions. The term Schalotte has also been used.
Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries: The most popular name is spring onions.
Wales: They may also be referred to as gibbons.
Scotland: They may be referred to as cibies or syboes.
Ireland: The term scallions is used.
Italy: They are usually called "cipollotti" or "cipolline novelle".
India: They are called spring onions and they are available widely.
Indonesia: They are referred to as Daun Bawang which literally translates to onion leaf from their green and leafy form.
Iran: They are referred to as Tarreh and are used in many dishes.
Japan: negi. Traditionally, green scallions similar to those available in other countries have been used in the Kansai region; Kyoto's kujo negi is a representative variety of this type. In the Kantō region, large white-stalked varieties such as tokyo negi outwardly resemble leeks, although their culinary use is closer to scallions than to leeks.
Korea: pa (hangul).
Malay: They are called daun bawang.
The Netherlands: Bosuitjes, which literally translates to forest onions or Lenteuitjes, which translates to Spring Onions.
New Zealand : They are called "Spring Onions"
Peru : They are called "Cebollita china" which literally translates to "chinese onion"
Serbia: They are known as mladi luk ("Young onions").
Catalonia, Spain: There is a variety known as Calçot.
Sweden: They are known as "salladslök" which translates to "sallad onions". Some people use "vårlök" which is a literal translation of spring onion, but actually refers to Gagea lutea.
Turkey: They are called either "taze soğan" or "yeşil soğan", which literally translate to fresh or green onion.
Vietnam: They are called "Hanh La", which literally translates to leafy onion.
United States and Canada: scallion or green onion. The term green onion can also be used for immature specimens of the ordinary onion (Allium cepa). |