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Salad or spring onions

 Salad or spring onions
Key facts

Indispensable in the kitchen, and especially in salads.

You won't find the best kind in the supermarket, but if you are near a farm shop, tiny, thin, very young spring onions are delicious served whole with just the root trimmed.

 
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