When we grill burgers at home, we have to make beer batter onion rings to go with them! They really are quite easy to make, using only a few ingredients. Somehow we always seem to make enough for a crowd! We use just a few spices in ours, but feel free to adjust to what you like best! We know that once you make beer batter onion rings from scratch, you will not go back to buying them frozen! So good!
What you will need to make beer batter onion rings:
- Sweet onions
- Flour
- Beer
- Baking powder
- Garlic powder
- Ancho powder
- Black pepper
- Oil
- 7 quart pot
- Metal tongs
- Metal cooling rack
- Sheet pan
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
Ingredients for onions:
- 3 Sweet onions
- ¼ cup flour
Ingredients for beer batter:
- 3 Cups all-purpose flour
- 24 ounces of beer
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon ancho powder
- Black pepper
- Oil for frying enough to come up 3 inches in pot
Instructions
- Slice sweet onions into half inch rings. Place in bowl and sprinkle with flour, tossing to coat. Set aside.
- In 7 quart pot, heat enough oil to come up 3 inches. We use a combination of canola oil and butter flavored Crisco. Use a thermometer to reach 375 F.
- While oil is heating, make the batter. Combine all the dry ingredients and pour the beer in slowly. You are looking for a batter that is a bit on the thinner side. It should coat the onion, and hang on to it, but not too heavy. More like a thick glaze, than a frosting! Ha!
- Pre-heat oven to 250F to keep onion rings warm while making them in batches.
- Using your hands, drop a bunch of onions into the batter, coating them on all sides. Pull them out a few at a time to place into the hot oil. Put in enough onions to fill, but not crowd the pan. Cook for 2 minutes, turn, and cook for 1 more minute.
- Using tongs, pull onion rings out onto a wire cooling rack that is in a sheet pan. Sprinkle with fine salt. We use popcorn salt. Place in oven to keep warm, and allow oil to come back up to 375F.
- As you do the batches of onion rings, use a strainer to remove any settlement of cooked batter. Continue the process of batches until all onions are used up.
- Onion rings will keep warm while you grill your burgers. We like to serve with ketchup, and chipotle mayo. Enjoy!
Notes
We use a combination of butter flavored crisco and canola oil. When we are finished making the rings, we allow the pan to set overnight. The crisco helps solidify it, then we can just wipe it out into the trash. The butter flavored Crisco also gives it some added flavor! You can replace ancho powder with chili powder or paprika.
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