5 things to make with spring onions

Don't just use spring onions as a garnish - cook with them for a mellow onion flavour. - Photos JANE F. RAGAVAN

Take one ingredient and turn it into a variety of dishes. We put onion shoots to the fore.

Spring onions, known as daun bawang in Malay, scallions, green onion or eschallot, have hollow tube-like leaves and white bulbs. They are much milder in flavour than onions, although the white parts have a stronger taste than the leaves.