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Beer battered onion rings made with Imperial Pale Ale. These onion rings can be enjoyed alone or on top of your favorite sandwich or burger!
Marinate onions for 1 hour in 2 cups of beer, vinegar, ¼ teaspoon of salt and ½ teaspoon of pepper.
Heat oil in heavy-bottomed pot until it reaches 365ºF. If you do not have a thermometer, test oil temperature by dropping a small amount of batter into it; if batter fries up quickly, oil is ready.
Whisk flour, cornstarch, baking powder, remaining beer, salt and pepper together to make batter.
Remove onions from marinade and dry thoroughly (batter will not stick well to wet onions). Coat each onion in batter and drop into hot oil. Cook 1–2 minutes, flip over and cook other side for 30 seconds. You will know rings are ready by their color: they should appear golden brown.
Immediately salt onion rings after removing from pot. Allow oil to heat back up and continue until all rings are fried.
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Janet Martin on 5.11.2015
You can’t brown batter by baking in the oven–or even keep it adhered to the onion rings, I suspect. Roasted onion, however is delicious or you might be able to use a crumb or cornmeal coating that would work if you cared to experiment. Nice dream, scratchcook3, but once in a while the real thing is absolutely worth the extra fat calories and kitchen mess. With the sweet Vidalias in the supermarket, right now is that perfect time–looks like next weekend might be my hubbies lucky day.
My observation has to do with the cornstarch batter. I’ve used it in the past for tempura, but it never browns for me as the gorgeous rings in your photo. Is it the hotter oil temp (I usually fry onion rings at 350), or does the ale have more sugar than the lager I typically use in my batter made with wheat flour?
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scratchcook3 on 5.10.2015
It’s a question actually. Would there be a way to bake these bad boys instead of frying them in oil? Inquiring minds want to know……..