■Shallots have better nutrition profile than onions. Have more anti-oxidants, minerals, and vitamins on weight per weight basis than onions.
■They are also good in minerals and electrolytes than onions particularly iron, calcium, copper, potassium, and phosphorus.
■In many Asian cooking, the bulbs are being used liberally in the preparation of curries, gravy, chutney, soups, stews, and pastes.
Shallots or eschalots are long slender bulbs in the Allium family of root vegetables. In general, they differ from onions in being smaller, and grow in clusters of bulbs from each plant root system. The bulbs have less sharp in pungency than that of onions and garlic which makes them one of the favorite of chefs all around the world.
The bulb vegetable are probably originated in the Central Asian region and now grown as major commercial crop in all the continents. Botanically, the bulb vegetables belong to the Alliaceae family of the genus Allium.