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11-06-2008, 08:33 PM
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Okay, so the recipe says use x number of shallots. Well, shallots it seems come in pods with multiple individually wrapped cloves. So when the recipe says use 1 shallot does it mean 1 whole shallot or 1 clove?
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I'd use the whole shallot, but then I like shallots! Maybe if you tell us what kind of dish you're making, it would help. You don't want to overpower a delicate main ingredient.
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Good question! I don't know the answer, but good question
I use the whole thing as 1 shallot, or as many as it takes to do 1C minced whatever. We like them and don't care if there's extra. But it'd be good to know what exactly the recipe is asking for.
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From Wikipedia: Unlike onions where each plant normally forms a single bulb, shallots form clusters of offsets, rather in the manner of garlic.
I use the whole shallot when the recipe calls for one.
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Consider each section a "clove" like a clove of garlic...if a recipe calls for "1 clove of garlic" you use one clove not the entire "bulb" same holds true for shallots. Like a garlic clove you would pick the size of the shallot "clove" by the amount of flavour you would like...
That is my take from my NECI days.
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Commerically they come packaged already seperated and peeled. The commercial recipe calls for one shallot... it means one of the cloves.
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Wow Bob I got one right!!!
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I guess I'm the odd person out. When it calls for a shallot, I use the whole thing, regardless of how many so called "cloves " are in it. I haven't ruined anything yet.
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If you like the flavour do what you enjoy and like...Lorraine, you of all people should know that one!!! You and so many more have been telling me that for more than three years between here and somewhere else on the web!!!
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Firechef,
How many TBS would you equate to one shallot?
I'm making that mushroom sauce from the Holiday book and it calls for 2 shallots. All minced up, I'm looking at 3 TSB of shallot.
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