Light and Crispy Homemade Onion Rings
Delightful light and crispy homemade onion rings that make the best finger food and will win you over.
These light and crispy homemade onion rings taste so good.
In this recipe, sliced onions are soaked in a buttermilk mixture.
Then they’re dredged in a flour mixture, and then back to the buttermilk mixture they go before getting their final coating of panko breadcrumbs.
About Serving
These crispy homemade onion rings make a wonderful appetizer or side dish.
Let’s check out the ingredients.
Yellow or white onions, buttermilk, hot sauce or tabasco sauce, ground black pepper, salt, pastry flour, ground cayenne red pepper, panko breadcrumbs and canola oil
HOW TO MAKE THIS RECIPE
A printable recipe with the measurements and instructions is located at the bottom of this post.
Onions:
Peel and slice the onions into about 3/4-inch wide slices.
Separate the slices of onion into rings.
Set aside for a moment.
Buttermilk:
For the Buttermilk Mixture – In a large bowl with a flat bottom…
…or casserole dish,
…add buttermilk.
To the buttermilk, add the onion rings.
Hot Sauce:
To the bowl, add hot sauce…
or Tabasco sauce if preferred.
Seasonings:
Next add salt…
…and pepper.
Mix the onions into the buttermilk so that the onion rings are evenly coated with the mixture.
Set aside.
Flour and Spice:
For the Flour Mixture – To a medium size bowl, add pastry flour…
…and…
…cayenne pepper.
Stir together and set aside.
Panko Bread Crumbs:
To a medium size bowl, add panko bread crumbs.
Set aside.
Coat the Onion Rings:
Mix up the onion rings again in the buttermilk mixture.
Add the onion rings, one at a time to the flour bowl and cover the onion completely with the flour.
Then dip the floured onion rings (one at a time) back into the buttermilk mixture.
Next,
…dip each coated onion ring into the panko bread crumbs covering each ring completely with the crumbs.
Set the breaded onion rings aside on a plate.
Fry the Onion Rings:
Heat a large skillet on medium heat and…
…add canola oil.
Depending on the diameter of the skillet, more oil may be needed.
Try to use enough so that the oil is about an inch high from the bottom of the skillet.
To the pan, add a pinch of flour.
When it starts to bubble, it’s time to add the breaded onion rings.
To the skillet, using a cooking fork, carefully add the breaded onion rings (about 4 or 5 at a time).
Cook in batches so not to overcrowd the pan.
When the bottom side of the onion rings turn a golden color, using a cooking fork…carefully turn the onion ring over to the other side.
…carefully turn the onion ring over to the other side.
At any time, if the oil starts to get too hot (smoking; or sizzling too much), turn the heat off and move the pan onto an unused burner.
When both sides of the onion rings turn a golden color,
remove them from the pan…
…onto a paper towel-lined plate to drain off any excess oil.
Season and Serve:
Salt the onion rings to taste.
Continue the cooking process for the remaining breaded onion rings.
Serve warm (let the onion rings cool a little before eating them because the onion on the inside gets very hot).
Serve with ketchup or your favorite dipping sauce.
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Light and Crispy Homemade Onion Rings
Ingredients
- 2 medium to large round shaped yellow onions peeled and sliced in 3/4 inch wide slices
- 2-1/2 cups buttermilk
- 3 teaspoons hot sauce or tabasco sauce
- 10 dashes salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
- 2 teaspoons ground red pepper cayenne
- 2 cups panko bread crumbs
- 1 cup canola oil or more depending on the size of your skillet
Instructions
- Separate the slices of onion into rings. Set aside for a moment.
- For the Buttermilk Mixture - In a large bowl with a flat bottom or casserole dish, add buttermilk. Add the onion rings to the buttermilk.
- To the bowl, add hot sauce (or tabasco sauce), salt, and pepper. Mix the onions into the buttermilk so that the onion rings are evenly coated with the mixture. Set aside.
- For the Flour Mixture - To a medium size bowl, add pastry flour and cayenne pepper. Stir together. Set aside.
- For the Panko Bread Crumbs - To a medium size bowl, add panko bread crumbs. Set aside.
- Coating the Onion Rings - Mix up the onion rings again in the buttermilk mixture. Add the onion rings, one at a time to the flour bowl and cover the onion completely with the flour.
- Then dip the floured onion rings (one at a time) back into the buttermilk mixture.
- Next, dip each coated onion ring into the panko bread crumbs covering each ring completely with the crumbs. Set the breaded onion rings aside on a plate.
- Frying the Onion Rings - Heat a large skillet on medium heat and add canola oil.
- Depending on the diameter of the skillet, more oil may be needed. Try to use enough so that the oil is about an inch high from the bottom of the skillet.
- To the pan, add a pinch of flour. When it starts to bubble, it's time to add the breaded onion rings.
- To the skillet, using a cooking fork, carefully add the breaded onion rings (about 4 or 5 at a time). Cook in batches so not to overcrowd the pan.
- When the bottom side of the onion rings turn a golden color, using a cooking fork, carefully turn the onion ring over to the other side.
- At any time, if the oil starts to get too hot (smoking; or sizzling too much), turn the heat off and move the pan onto an unused burner.
- When both sides of the onion rings turn a golden color, remove them from the pan onto a paper towel-lined plate to drain off any excess oil.
- Continue the cooking process for the remaining breaded onion rings. Salt the onion rings to taste.
- Serve warm (let the onion rings cool a little before eating them because the onion on the inside gets very hot).
- Serve with ketchup or your favorite dipping sauce.
Serving Suggestions
Serve these onion rings as a side dish or an appetizer.
They can also be made a few at a time to add to burgers or sandwiches like in this grilled cheese sandwich “Browned Butter Grilled Cheese and Onion Ring Sandwich“, and it of course tastes divine.
Side Dish Recipes
Here are more side dishes you may like “Oven Roasted Steak Fries with Smoky Ketchup“, “French Fries with Dipping Sauces” and “Chipotle Lime Tortilla Chips“.
Appetizer Recipes
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these were so ridiculously good…. could NOT stop eating them!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Allison, so glad you liked them!
Wow you’re making me soo hungry, and it’s 12:34 AM! I’m having a sleepover this weekend, and I’ll definitely try these with my friends. Thanks soo much!!!!!
Hi Ophelia, sounds like a great late night snack for a sleepover! Have fun this weekend.
These look so good. I am going to add them to my Mouth Watering Mondays post. Come on over on check it out on Monday Cheers, Tara
Hi Tara, that would be great and I sure will be over for a visit. Thank you very much!
Hi Ann, thank you!
Made these for my husband tonight and he loved them! Infact he said they were the best he ever had…Thanks.
Hi Amber, so glad to hear that! Thank you for letting me know how they turned out. Have a great week!
These look terribly addicting and delicious 🙂
You’re right…they were for sure!
Man, I love onion rings…and these look fantastic!!!! Pinning these beauties~
Hi Liz, so glad you like these and thank you very much for the pins!
These look great. I love onion rings! The photos are outstanding!
Hi Steve, thank you very much!
delicious looking onion rings and pictures
Thank you!
I kid you not but I saw these and the song “I think I love you” from eons ago started playing in my head. I now have to go to bed with that playing in my brain all night. So thanks for that. And these killer onion rings. I think I love you!
LOL, you are so funny! Once a song gets stuck in my head it’s so hard to get rid of it….everytime the ice cream truck comes thru my neighborhood I have this problem.
These look fantastic. I have to make these for the hubby, he loves onion rings and these are the perfect crispy crunchy ticket. Photos are wonderful and I especially like the photo with the lone onion ring.
Hi Suzi, thank you very much. I definitely had fun taking the pictures of these onion rings. Thank you for stopping by!
I do have a weakness for onion rings and these sure do have all the makings of a delicious addiction. I like that there is a touch of hot sauce in there! Yes it would be hard to wait for these to cool, staring at all that crunchy goodness-yum! Have a great day!
Hi Tina, thank you and have a great day too!