Best onion ring recipe?!
Best onion ring recipe?
Answers: BEER BATTER ONION RINGS
10 oz. beer
1 egg
2 tsp. oil
2 c. flour, approx.
2 jumbo yellow onions, peeled & sliced to 3/4"
Mix first 3 ingredients. Add flour until mixture forms a paste. Batter should not be stiff. Dip and fully coat onion rings. Deep fry in hot oil, 360 degrees until golden brown. Fried Onion Rings
4 large sweet onions
milk
2/3 cup yellow cornmeal
2/3 cup all-purpose flour, sift before measuring
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons melted shortening
1 beaten egg
1 2/3 cups milk
flour
Peel onions and slice into rounds 1/4-inch thick. Separate rings; soak in milk for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, mix cornmeal, flour, salt, pepper, melted shortening, egg, and 1 2/3 cups milk to make the batter.
Drain onion rings; dip in batter then in flour. Fry onion rings in batches in deep fat at 370° to 375° for 2 to 3 minutes, or until golden brown. http://web.foodnetwork.com/food/web/sear...
(Pics:http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/im... TENNESSEE MAMA'S ONION RINGS
1 cup flour
1 cup beer (the brand of your choice since there will be some left to cool you during the cooking!)
3-4 cups shortening for frying purposes
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
seasoning salt (optional).
Combine flour and beer in a large bowl, blending thoroughly. Cover and allow batter to sit at room temperature for at least 3 hours. Afterwards, gently stir in the sugar and salt.
Cut onions into one-fourth inch or larger (depending upon preference) slices. Separate slices into rings. Heat shorting to 375 degrees F. This best of onion ring recipes says you MUST have your grease hot, or NO recipe will work! (You can determine this temperature by dropping a sample ring into the hot grease -- it should begin to immediately sizzle and quickly rise to the top or a one inch square piece of bread will brown in one minute in 375 degree oil.) Dry sliced rings and roll in flour. Then dip onion rings into batter and fry until delicate golden brown. The batter can be made thicker by adding more flour or thinner by adding more beer.
This onion ring recipe batter can also be used successfully for frying okra with a batter-that-sticks. The only complaints received were from those who let the batter stay in the bowl overnight and dry. It was said the batter sticks so well to the bowl that it has to be chiseled out!
Besides this best of the onion ring recipes, there are "everything onion" facts you're sure to want to know:
- You can dry onions in your own oven by chopping them into pieces and putting them in the oven on cookie sheets. Use the very lowest oven setting. Turn them periodically and remove them when dry, but before they get brown. Put them in airtight containers. They keep just fine on your shelf at room temperature.
- If you get a really great deal on onions, you can freeze them. Realize that freezing breaks the onion's cell membranes and changes their texture when thawed, you'll only want to freeze those you'll use in cooking.
- You can chop them up and mini-package them before you freeze them.
- You can chop them up, freeze them on cookie sheets and then package them in bulk quantities. This allows you to pull out later just what you need because the pieces are independently frozen.
- You can also freeze whole onions, chopping them up as they thaw. You cry less when you chop frozen onions because the eye-irritating oils aren't as volatile!
- If you plan on using a fresh onion raw in salads, you'll get a sweeter flavor if you chill the onion in the refrigerator for an hour before serving!
Finally, to get onion juice off of your fingers, sprinkle baking soda on them and then rub them with a piece of fresh lemon or lime!
---------------------- Amy's Best Ever Onion Rings
INGREDIENTS
* 2 cups oil for frying, or as needed
* 1 large red onion, sliced and separated into rings
* 1/4 cup seasoned salt
* 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
* salt to taste
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat the oil in a deep-fryer or heavy skillet to 365 degrees F (185 degrees C).
2. Place the onion rings in a bag or bowl. Mix together the seasoned salt and flour, and pour in with the onion. Fry in the hot oil until lightly golden brown. You may need to gently stir the rings as the fry to brown them evenly. Drain on paper towels, and season with salt to taste.
---------------- Grandma's Onion Rings (Southern Style)
INGREDIENTS
* 1 quart oil for frying, or as needed
* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 2 teaspoons salt, divided
* 2 teaspoons ground black pepper, divided
* 3 egg whites
* 1 cup milk
* 1 tablespoon white vinegar
* 3 large sweet onions, peeled and sliced into thick rings
DIRECTIONS
1. Heat the oil in a large heavy skillet over medium-high heat, or deep-fryer to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2. Place the flour in a shallow baking pan, and stir in 1 teaspoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of pepper. In a medium bowl, whisk together the egg whites, milk, vinegar, and remaining salt and pepper until frothy.
3. Dip the onion rings in the wet ingredients then into the flour mixture until coated. Then dip in the egg white mixture again, and then into the flour again.
4. Fry onion rings in the hot oil a few at a time so they are not crowded, until golden brown. Drain on paper towels, and serve immediately.
-------------ONION RING BEER BATTER
1/2 cup dark beer
1/2 cup seltzer water or club soda
1 tablespoon oil
1 egg white
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
1 cup Wondra or pastry flour
1/4 teaspoon mustard powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
Pour beer and seltzer water or soda into the bowl of a blender or food processor (or a stick blender can be used). Sprinkle in pepper, mustard, salt and onion powder and oil. Pulse until combined. Add flour last, and process only until mixed. Batter may still be slightly lumpy, but almost smooth. If too pasty, add a teaspoon of water at a time until mixture has the consistency of a pancake batter.
Whisk egg white until frothy in a shallow bowl. Gently stir in contents of food processor, mixing until combined.
Slice large sweet onions into rings. Separate rings. Soak in a small amount of milk for 10 minutes. Drain and lightly sprinkle with onion powder, then dip in batter.
Fry small batches in hot oil (365F), turning once, gently to brown evenly. Remove using a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels before serving. Season with salt and pepper (a little hot salt or cayenne, if desired) while still hot from fryer.
Serve in paper baskets lined with paper towels. Great with batter-fried fish
----------BATTER FOR ONION RINGS OR ANY
VEGETABLES
1 c. flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 egg, beaten
1 c. milk
2 tbsp. oil
Fat or oil, for deep frying
Combine above ingredients and beat until lumps are gone. Coat onion rings with batter. Fry, a few at a time, in hot fat - stirring to separate - until golden.
Drain on paper toweling. Sprinkle with salt. Fat should be 360 degrees for frying. Drakes onion ring batter mix. Substitute beer for the liquid. Use a sweet onion such as Vidalia, Bermuda or Walla Walla.
