Gluten Free Onion Rings
Servings: 6 people (depending on the size of your onions!)
Ingredients
- 3 large onions
- 250 grams gluten free self raising flour - can use plain flour
- 330 ml Skinny Lager - one bottle/can
- Sprinkle of seasoning - I like just using salt & pepper but some people add a pinch of paprika too
- 1 litre sunflower oil
Instructions
- Add the oil to pan. Heat to 180oC.>You want a deep pan - enough to get at least 3 inches of oil in there. Ideally, it shouldn’t be any more than 2/3rds full – it spits and bubbles so it’s safer this way. Also make sure your pan is immaculately clean before adding the oil otherwise that makes it spit too!>Haven't got a thermometer? Other ways to tell: (1) It takes roughly 3-5 mins on a medium heat to bring 1 litre of oil to this temperate. (2) Drop a tsp of batter into the oil – you’re looking for a sizzle (quite a few bubbles) and the underside to go brown within about 20-30 seconds. If it goes brown quicker than that, the oil is too hot turn down the heat a little and wait a few mins and repeat. If it’s slower, the oil is too cool so wait a bit longer and repeat (frying in too cooler oil means the onion rings will soak up some of the oil and be greasy)
- Peel the outside skin off an onion and chop into slices>I like each ring to be about 1cm deep.
- Break them into rings>For most of the rings, I keep 2 together to ensure you get lots of onion in the midde and it doesnt just take like batter. Hopefully you can see what I mean in the pic!
- Add the seasoning, flour and and lager to a mixing bowl and whisk (either by hand or with an electric whisk). >Make sure you get right to the bottom of the mixing bowl as the flour tends to sneakily sit there.
- Take an onion ring, dip into the batter making sure its fully coated, and carefully lower into the oil. Repeat until your pan is full.
- Leave the onion rings until JUST brown on the underside (like the pic - should take about 1 min). At this stage, flip them over and cook until brown on the other side too.
- Remove from the heat with a slotted spoon and place onto a cooling rack, allowing the excess oil to drain through the rack.
- Repeat for the rest of your onion rings!
- Eat as quickly as possible for the best crunch :) Enjoy!!