Healthier Onion Rings

When you think of Onion rings you would normally think of a few things: Deep fried, fat and greasy. Well….I found a recipe of the fried version and made it healthier. Enjoy!

 

Ingredients:

1 large onion, cut into 1/4 inch slices (I used what we had and it was a very small onion)

1 1/4 Cup Whole wheat flour

1 tsp Baking Powder

1 tsp Salt

1 egg

1 cup milk, I used organic 2%

2 cups dried whole wheat bread crumbs: recipe below

Olive oil

 

Dried bread crumb directions:

I did not have dried bread crumbs already so I made my own. All I did was take 2 slices of whole wheat bread, took the crust off and baked it at 350 degrees for 4 minutes. Use your own judgment on how long to bake them. You want to make sure you can crumble the bread into small crumbs.

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees
2. Separate the onion slices into rings, and set aside.
3. In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Dip the onion slices into the flour mixture until they are coated; set aside.
5. Whisk the egg and milk into the flour mixture using a fork. Dip the floured rings into the batter to coat, then place on a wire rack to drain until batter stops dripping. (I placed parchment paper under the rack to make it easier to clean up.) Put the bread crumbs in a shallow bowl and spread out. Place one ring at a time into the crumbs, flip and coat the ring. Tap the ring as you remove it from the bowl. The bread coating should cling well. Repeat with the remaining rings.
6. Lightly coat the bottom of the pan with olive oil. Place the rings on the pan side by side and drizzle olive oil over the rings.
7. Bake at 350 degrees for 5 minutes, flip the rings and bake for 5 more minutes. I then turned the oven up to 425 degrees and baked for another 5 minutes. Bake until desired crispiness.

They were so delicious! We will be making these more often 🙂

Enjoy and Live simple