shallot

[English] plural shallots

The shallot is a relative of the onion but with a sweeter flavour and rather milder. Shallots, like garlic, grow in heads which are then separated out into cloves. They are often covered with a golden through to red onion-paper type skin, or in the case of the griselle shallot, pinkish grey.

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