NOTE: These crunchy battered onion rings are so good, they will be eaten before you get them on the table. Using a mixture of flour, cornmeal, and buttermilk, the batter is the best part. One giant Vidalia onion makes about 25 rings, which is a nice platter, but for a family of five or more hungry ones, you may want to double the recipe.
Ingredients:
- 1 large sweet Vidalia onion ( about 1 pound)
- 1 cup thick buttermilk
- 1 egg
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup stone ground cornmeal, medium grind
- 1 to 2 teaspoons coarse ground sea salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 teaspoon Tone's Louisiana Style Cajun seasoning
- 2 cups mild oilve oil
- salt for garnish
Cuisine: Country
Yield: Serves 4
Rating: 
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 225-degrees. Peel onion and cut tips from each end. On kitchen board, slice onion with long serated knife into 1/2 to 3/4-inch thick slices. With fingers, press the slices and rings will fall out. You may leave some rings doubled for extra thick ring.
- In medium bowl, beat together buttermilk and egg. In another bowl, place the flour, cornmeal, salt, pepper, and Cajun seasoning. Toss together until blended; set aside.
- Using a large heavy deep skillet, or Dutch oven, heat oil to a medium-high 350-degrees. The oil is ready when a sprinkle of flour dropped into the oil pops. Using a fork or tongs, drop onion rings into the buttermilk mixture and then dredge lightly in the flour/cornmeal coating. Repeat the coating by dipping the onion ring back into the buttermilk and then a second time into the flour/cornmeal to get a thick coating.
- Drop by batches into the hot oil, about 4 or 5 at a time; do not crowd. Fry about 2 minutes, turning once or twice, until golden brown. Lightly salt rings while they are frying. Remove onion rings to a paper towel-lined baking pan to drain. To keep onion rings warm and crisp, place pan in warm oven while frying the next batch. If oil gets too thick and dark, stop the process and change oil. This will prevent the onion rings getting crusted with thick brown oil.
- Remove from oven and serve plain, or with your favorite sauce. Serves 4.