I love onion rings but have a hard time letting myself eat them very often because they are fried in oil and we all know too much of deep fried foods is not good for us. So I was intrigued when I started seeing recipes for oven baked onion rings. I was a little skeptical but tried them and they are very tasty! So give them a try, you definitely will not be disappointed.
Oven Baked Onion Rings
Cooking spray
4 cups baked potato chips
1/2 teaspoon cayenne
1 cup lowfat buttermilk
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 to 2 large onions, peeled
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
Spray a baking sheet lightly with oil and set aside. Place potato chips in a bowl of a food processor and process into crumbs, about 20 seconds. Transfer to a shallow bowl, add cayenne, and set aside. In another bowl, combine buttermilk, 2 tablespoons of flour, salt and pepper and set aside. slice onions into 1/2 inch circles and seperate into rings, keeping only large, whole rings (reserve rest of onions for other uses). You should come out with about 12 to 14 rings.
Place the remaining flour in a sealable plastic bag, then add the onions and shake to coat. Dip onions 1 at a time into the buttermilk mixture, then dip into potato chip crumbs and place on baking sheet. Spray canola oil evenly over rings and bake for 20 minutes or until coating is crisp. Season with salt to taste and serve immediately.
I experimented and put a metal cooling rack on my baking sheet and then put the onion rings on top of that to bake them. It made them come out more crispy because the bottoms weren't sitting directly on a pan!
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