Onion rings

If you want pretentious then the Gordon Ramsay ones are at the bottom.

As with most things I nicked these off a youtube vid, although they are slightly different.

Onion Rings

Ingredients:

• Onions
• Plain flour
• Yougurt
• Milk
• Water
• Tabasco sauce
• Breadcrumbs
• Seasoning:
  • Garlic powder
  • Chilli powder/cayanne pepper
  • White pepper
  • Salt

Method:

Crispy onion rings

Prepare the onions

The trick to this is to marinade the onions, the video suggests 8 hours but I've done anywhere between 10 mins and a few hours.

In a large bowl bung in some yogurt (maybe 100ml or so), then let that down with milk and water so you've got a bowl of liquid. To this add a good gob of Tabasco for flavour and the acidity helps break down the onions.

Slice your onions to the desired thickness (about 3-5 cm) and bung them in the yogurt mixture and leave them for a while.

Add the flour

In a nice flat pie tin I bung some flour, coat the onions in the flour. Don't get too much flour on at this point, less is more. Basically you want to shake the onion in the flour then knock off any excess flour. Put the onions to the side.

Breadcrumbs

Next you need to bread the onions. I use the same pie dish but this time filled with breadcrumbs. (I used both Sainsburys and the Oxo 'Southern Fried' ones, both work well).

To do this i quickly dip the onion ring back in the wet dredge then into the breadcrumbs to coat.

Freezing

If you want to freeze them, this is the time to do it.

Cooking

Deep fry the onion rings until they're golden, takes about 5 minutes in 170-180 degree oil.

Recipe: Gordon Ramsay's Beer Battered Onion

Ingredients:

• 400 g All Purpose Flour
• 400 g Rice Flour
• 2 Table spoons Baking Powder
• 2 Table spoons Salt
• 2 Tablespoons Honey
• 300 ml Gin
• 2 pints Ale (As needed)

Method for the batter :

Mix all the dry ingredients. Whisk the gin and honey together. Whisk the beer and the dry ingredients together. Stir in the gin and honey. Let stand for 30 minutes and whisk before using.

Method for the rings :

Peel the onion Slice the onion into rings and separate them Dip in batter and deep fry until gold and crispy, around 2 – 2 and a half minutes.

Enjoy .....