Four delicious fall recipes 🍁

from red Tropea onions to tart seasonal apples! 🍎

The red onion from Tropea, Italy grows in a small area of Calabria in southern Italy, Capo Vaticano, near the city of Tropea. This onion has a strong and sweet aroma and the inner part is juicier and whiter than other red onions; perfect to make a jam. In March 2008, the European Union registered the DOP (Protected Designation of Origin) for the red onions produced in this area in Italy. 

When it’s time to harvest the onions (late summer to fall), stop watering them a week before harvesting. Pull the onions from the ground when their necks soften and start to fall over. Lay them in the sun for a few days then finish drying them away from direct sunlight, in a warm area, and in a single layer so air can circulate around them until the neck is dry.

Two of my favorite red onion recipes (preferably Tropea) are red onion jam, and a red onion tart. Tropea onions are ideal because of their sweeter aroma but if you can't find them choose another favorite red onion.