Onion Cipollini Red Marble
Cipollini have more residual sugar than your average onion which makes them delicious when roasted whole or caramelized in butter or oil.
Onion cipollini red marble. It was quarried in several locations on the south west coast of the greek island of euboea between the modern day cities of styra and karystos. Red marble cippolini hybrid little red cippolinis have the same flattened spherical shape as borettana cippolini but they are a wonderful rich ruby red color and their handsome dark red coloration goes deep into the rings. The 2 inch in diameter 1 inch thick glossy mini onions have fine fleshed texture and slightly pungent flavor. However it ll still produce smallish bulbs outside of this range.
A type of cipollini onion the red marble f1 is small and flat with a deep red color both inside and out. The bulb is covered in a thin ruby copper papery parchment skin that adheres tightly to the flesh. Cipollini onions also known as cipolline onions are flat shaped interesting looking semi sweet onions. This type of onion does particularly well in both intermediate and long day zones i e usda zones 2 7.
Cipollini mini gold coin onion 250 seeds current rage. Small flat red cipollini with a thin neck. Hard good storage variety. Flat onions are 1 1 2 wide and 1 high.
Cipollino marble onion stone was a variety of marble used by the ancient greeks and romans whose latin term for it was marmor carystium meaning marble from karystos. Cipollini onions are an italian variety that have a distinctive flat shape and small size about equal to a golf ball. Only 10 left in stock order soon. Red cipollini onions are small in size averaging 3 8 centimeters in diameter and have petite saucer shaped bulbs that are round and slightly flattened in shape.
Red marble s dark red color goes deep into the rings. 1 1 2 1 3 4 diameter by 3 4 1 depth. Cipollini mini red marble onion current rage. Cipollini which means little onions in italian develop small no larger than 3 in diameter flattened bulbs that can be used as fresh bunching onions or cured.
The cipollini onion is considered somewhat of an exotic food but becoming more mainstream as time goes by. Once solely the domain of fine dining or gourmet food stores they re becoming more widely available all the time.