Spring onion

Cébette

What it is

A different species from the bulb onion — it never swells and never means to. Cultivated in China for two thousand years, it is one of the few alliums used raw at the finish of a dish rather than cooked down at the start.

In the kitchen

White and green are two ingredients. Cook the white with the aromatics, scatter the green raw over the finished plate.

Goes with

Ginger Soy sauce Sesame Chili pepper Garlic Fish sauce Egg Shiitake

Same species

Arleux smoked garlic Banana shallot Black garlic Calçot Cévennes sweet onion Chives

Also used with

Arame Barley koji Cai pu Pekin duck Carolina Gold rice Cheonggukjang

In season alongside

Chickweed Cucumber Garlic scape Gernika pepper Green bean Hairy bittercress

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