With a similar texture and layers to peel back, you may have wondered if onions and shallots are the same, and if they can be swapped as a recipe substitute.

Here's where things get interesting: shallots, although often treated as their own species, are actually a subtype of onion.

Onions and shallots have distinct flavours and nutritional benefits. Onions possess bold flavours, making them ideal for hearty dishes, while shallots offer a milder, sweeter taste suitable for ...

The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion. Until 2010, the shallot was classified as a separate species, Allium ascalonicum, a name that is a synonym of Allium cepa, the species name of the ...