Oven-Fried Onion Rings
| Oven-Fried Onion Rings |
Recipe type: Vegetable Dishes
Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 15 mins
Total time: 35 mins
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 large egg, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- salt and ground black pepper
- 30 Saltines
- 4 cups kettle-cooked potato chips
- 2 large yellow onions, cut into 1/2-inch-thick rounds
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
Instructions
- Adjust oven racks to lower-middle and upper-middle positions and heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Place 1/4 cup flour in shallow baking dish.
- Beat egg and buttermilk together in medium bowl.
- Whisk remaining 1/4 cup flour, cayenne, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper into buttermilk mixture.
- Pulse saltines and chips together in food processor until finely ground and place in separate shallow baking dish.
- Pull apart rings in each round, discarding any that are less than 2 inches in diameter.
- Working one at a time, dredge each onion ring in flour, shaking off excess.
- Dip in buttermilk mixture, allowing excess to drip back into bowl, then drop into crumb coating, turning ring to coat evenly.
- Transfer to large plate and repeat with remaining onion rings.
- Pour 3 tablespoons oil onto each of two rimmed baking sheets.
- Place in oven and heat until just smoking, about 8 minutes.
- Carefully tilt heated sheets to coat evenly with oil, then arrange onion rings on sheets.
- Bake, flipping onion rings and switching and rotating position of baking sheets halfway through baking, until golden brown on both sides, about 15 minutes.
- Transfer onion rings to paper towel-lined plates to drain briefly.
- Serve immediately.
