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Round and slightly flattened white onions with dry white outer skins.

Generic white onion

White onion is a group of onion varieties with white outer coverings, including flattened and rounded bulb forms.

Identifying feature
White outer coverings
Shape range
Flattened and rounded examples

Types and forms

Bianca di Maggio

Characteristics
Flattened bulb with a silvery white covering

Bianca gigante Ingegnoli

Characteristics
Rounded bulb in the producer’s white-onion group
Bianca di MaggioBianca gigante Ingegnoli
CharacteristicsFlattened bulb with a silvery white coveringRounded bulb in the producer’s white-onion group

Try it in the kitchen

Cook sliced white onion as the base of a vegetable soup, or roast wedges beside cauliflower. Ask for a named variety when you want to repeat a particular result.

In Campania’s Genovese, white or copper onions cook slowly with meat to make a pasta sauce.

White is a variety group

Check the cultivar name as well as the colour description. Ask for the variety you want to use in the kitchen.

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