Homemade Beer-Battered Onion Rings

I dear onion rings.  Always have.  Even when I was actually young, earlier I similar onions on or inward anything else, I loved onion rings.  When I was growing upwards nosotros had a niggling diner inward town that had been only about since my parents were growing up- Dave's.   They verbalize nearly going in that place during their opened upwards tiffin menstruation inward schoolhouse to purchase a burger for a quarter or something ridiculous.  When I was inward sixth grade, I recall walking yesteryear in that place later schoolhouse too stopping inward for laffy taffy from their candy bar or an H2O ice cream cone.   But what I actually loved was a double (cheeseburger) amongst ketchup too pickles, only, too onion rings... amongst a chocolate milkshake, of course.  Even equally I type it I tin odour the onion rings too burgers frying.  Hmmmm.

Dave did non brand his onion shout out upwards batter amongst beer (certainly non a Blue Moon), too he did non serve them amongst a chipotle aioli dipping sauce.  The recipe is an development of my grown-up tastes... inspired yesteryear my youth.  The breading is similar to a tempura type batter too industrial plant non bad on anything from zucchini to thick slices of portabella mushrooms.

Homemade Beer-Battered
Onion Rings


ii large Vidalia onions
1 1/2 loving cup flour
3/4 loving cup if buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon dark pepper
1 tsp body of body of water salt
3/4 loving cup beer
vegetable stone oil for frying
extra body of body of water common salt for sprinkling

Slice the onions inward thick slices, too thus carve upwards the rings.  Place them inward a large bowl.  Sprinkle them amongst 1/2 loving cup of flour too toss, coating them amongst flour. 

In a carve upwards bowl, mix together 1 loving cup flour, buttermilk, garlic powder, cayenne, pepper, common salt too beer.  Whisk together until it is smooth. 

Heat stone oil on medium high inward a deep pan for frying.  To exam the stone oil to brand sure it is hot, driblet a niggling fighting of the batter inward the oil.  If it starts to bubble immediately, the stone oil is ready.

Dip each onion shout out upwards into the batter, too thus set it into the frying pan.  Cook exclusively plenty rings at a fourth dimension thus they don't over crowd.  With tongs, one-half agency through, flip the onions thus they prepare evenly on both sides.  Remove from the stone oil too allow them drip on a newspaper towel.  Sprinkle amongst body of body of water salt.

Here are the onions tossed inward flour- it helps the batter stick to the onions.

Here I am, whisking the batter.  It should survive similar a sparse pancake batter.

Chipotle Dipping Sauce
for beer-battered onion rings 

1/2 loving cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon ketchup 1/2 chipotle pepper inward adobo sauce, minced 
1/2 teaspoon adobo sauce from can 
1/2 teaspoons chili powder 
1/4 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt

Stir together all of the ingredients inward a minor bowl.  

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