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Scallion

AlliumAlso called spring onion, salad onion, bunch onion and green shallot

Scallion is a vegetable whose leaves are used in cooking. Cooks use them raw or as a garnish, grill them, or add them to stir-fries; they pair with ginger and garlic.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Vegetables
Part used
Leaf
Family
Amaryllidaceae
Cooked most in
Asia, Africa, Europe
Top country
Indonesia
Scallion, whole

Photo: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use scallion

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Garnish
  • Grill
  • Raw
  • Stir fry

Preparing it

Trim the bottom half-centimetre of the root before use.

Cooking with it

Fry the white portions and chop the greens to finish a dish.

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of scallion holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 8%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 90%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of scallion, raw
Energy32 kcal · 135 kJ
Protein0.67 g
Fat0.19 g
of which saturated0.03 g
Carbohydrate7.3 g
of which sugars2.6 g
Fibre2.3 g
Sodium9.9 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of scallion, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium232 mg
Calcium59 mg
Iron1 mg
Magnesium19 mg
Zinc0.25 mg
Vitamin C19 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)50 µg
Folate64 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 170005, 2727585), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where scallion is cooked

39 dishes in the catalogue use scallion. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list scallion among their ingredients.

On the table

Dishes made with scallion

36 of the 39 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Coto makassar

    Indonesia

  • Niçard salad

    France

  • Zelekivka zlyvanka

    Ukraine

  • Vermicelle Poulet

    Senegal

  • Calulu and Funge

    Angola

  • Çoban salad

    Türkiye

  • Spicy cow foot

    Nigeria

  • Maskurolhi

    Maldives

  • Afghan salad

    Afghanistan

  • Kewa datshi

    Bhutan

  • Luwombo

    Uganda

  • Paprikash

    Hungary

  • Xidoufen

  • Pölsa

    Sweden

  • Caluk noodles

    Indonesia

  • Dibi

    Senegal

  • Otak-otak

    Indonesia

  • Rujak soto

    Indonesia

  • Tongseng

    Indonesia

  • Mie ayam

    Indonesia

  • Mi Gomak

    Indonesia

  • Mi Kocok

    Indonesia

  • Mie celor

    Indonesia

  • Sour Fish Soup

    Indonesia

  • Timlo

    Indonesia

  • Sayur besan

    Indonesia

  • Soto Madura

    Indonesia

  • Acehnese Murtabak

    Indonesia

  • Babi kecap

    Indonesia

  • Pempek lenggang

    Indonesia

  • Bakwan

    Indonesia

  • Sop senerek

    Indonesia

  • Bakso Balungan

    Indonesia

  • Egyptian martabak

    Indonesia

  • Cireng

  • Cholera

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include scallion.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: scallion in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Kinds
Welsh onion

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What scallion is called

Names in 53 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Cebolla de primavera · Cebolletas tiernas

  • French

    cébette · oignon vert · oignons de printemps · oignon nouveau

  • Italian

    cipollotto

  • Portuguese

    cebolinha

  • German

    Frühlingszwiebeln · Frühlingszwiebel

  • Dutch

    bosui · pijpajuin · lente-ui · lenteui

  • Turkish

    Yeşil soğan

  • Russian

    зелёный лук

  • Polish

    zielona cebulka

  • Arabic

    البصل الاخضر

  • Persian

    پیازچه

  • Hebrew

    בצל ירוק

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  • Afrikaans

    Stingelui

  • Armenian

    Կանաչ սոխ

  • Asturian

    cebollín · cebolleta

  • Banjar

    Daun bawang

  • Bulgarian

    Пресен лук

  • Catalan

    ceba tendra

  • Chinese

    青蔥 · 蔥

  • Czech

    jarní cibulka

  • Danish

    forårsløg · springløg · forårs-løg

  • Egyptian Arabic

    بصل اخضر

  • Esperanto

    Askolonio

  • Estonian

    Roheline sibul

  • Finnish

    vihersipuli · kevätsipuli · Allium cepa

  • Galician

    ceboliño

  • Hindi

    हरी प्याज

  • Hungarian

    zöldhagyma

  • hyw

    Կանաչ սոխ

  • Icelandic

    Vorlaukur

  • Indonesian

    daun bawang

  • Japanese

    葉タマネギ · 春タマネギ · エシャロット · スキャリオン

  • Javanese

    loncang

  • Kashmiri

    پُژٕ گنڈٕ

  • Korean

    파류

  • Malagasy

    Tongolo maitso · Dongolo ravigny

  • Malay

    Daun bawang

  • Marathi

    कांदेपात · कांद्याची पात

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    vårløk

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    vårlauk

  • Old English

    efeleac

  • Ossetic

    цъæх хъæдындз

  • Scots

    Sybae

  • Shan

    မီႇယွႆး · မီႇၶဵဝ်

  • Slovenian

    pomladna čebula

  • Swedish

    salladslök · Knipplök

  • Tajik

    Пиёзи кабуд

  • Tamil

    வெங்காயத்தாள்

  • Thai

    หอมต้นเดี่ยว · หอมต้น · ต้นหอม

  • Ukrainian

    зелена цибуля · молода цибуля · бут

  • Uyghur

    غول پىياز

  • Vietnamese

    Hành lá

  • Waray

    Ahos

Photos

More photos of scallion

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q774278

Photos

Photo: Evan-Amos · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Photo: PumpkinSky · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Kritzolina · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Daderot · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons