Vinegar
Used in 2 recipes on RecipeWiki.
White vinegar, the clear, colourless kind this page covers, sometimes sold as distilled or spirit vinegar, is sharp and clean-tasting, with none of the fruit or malt of cider or wine vinegars. That neutrality is the point: it adds pure sourness without changing the flavour of a dish. In Jamaica it is the base of the escovitch pickle, heated with onion and peppers and poured over fried fish in Escovitch Fish, and in Mexican cooking it sharpens Tacos al Pastor. Because it is harsher than other vinegars, start with less than you think and taste. It keeps indefinitely in a cupboard.
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OnionRecipes with vinegar
Escovitch Fish
Whole fish fried until the skin shatters, then dressed hot with vinegar, onion, carrot and scotch bonnet so it pickles as it cools.
Caribbean
Dinner
Fish
Tacos al Pastor
Chilli-and-pineapple marinated pork, grilled hard and served in small tortillas with onion, coriander and more pineapple.
Mexican
Pork