Quick Pickled Onions - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 small red onion, thinly sliced into rings
3/4 cup rice wine vinegar
1/4 cup sugar
1 -2 teaspoon coarse salt (to taste)
2 whole cloves

Preparation

Place onion slices into a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil; drain and transfer to a nonreactive bowl.
Bring vinegar, sugar, salt and cloves to a boil in the saucepan. Pour over the onion slices, and let cool.
Chill in an airtight container for at least 2 hours, or up to a month.