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Good onion rings!

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Last week a new friend from Manila visited us here in Davao. Bob and I decided to invite them over to our house for dinner. One thing that I prepared was onion rings. They liked it a lot. He asked for the recipe, I promised him I will post it here for him. So Mr. Dave Starr here’s the onion ring recipe.

Ingredients:

  1. 2 large yellow onion, peeled, ringed sliced into 1/2 inch thick separated
  2. 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  3. 1/4 cup cornmeal or corn grits ( binlod in bisaya)
  4. 2 cups buttermilk, or 1 cup plain yogurt mixed with 1 cup milk
  5. 2-3 cups canola oil
  6. salt and freshly ground pepper

* Locally made buttermilk: 2 cups of milk mix with 4 tbsp of vinegar. Soak for at least 30 minutes before using. *

Procedure:

  1. Combine the buttermilk ( or the yogurt and milk) with the 1 1/2 teaspoons of salt and 1 teaspoon of freshly ground pepper in a large bowl. Add the onions to the buttermilk mixture and coat thoroughly. Let set for at least 15 minutes.
  2. In a separate bowl combine the flour and cornmeal or corn grits, 1 tsp. of salt and 1/2 tsp. of pepper. Set aside.
  3. Add the oil to the fry daddy or your pan (good for deep frying). You can use more oil if necessary. Heat the oil to 350 degrees Fahrenheit or if you don’t have thermometer in the house just test it with by moistening a little bit of the flour and dropping it in the pan. If it sizzles then its ready. If it burns, take the pan off from the heat and let the oil cool down a bit.
  4. Working in batches, lift some onions rings out of the buttermilk and coat them in the flour mixture. Fry until golden brown, do not crowd them in the pan. Place finished onion rings on a cookie sheet lined with paper towel to absorb the excess oil. You can keep the cook onion rings in the oven to keep it warm in 200 degrees Fahrenheit while frying the rest. Between batches, if your frying more and end up adding more oil. Let the temperature get back to 350 degrees before starting the next batch.
  5. Serve hot.

I hope that you will try this recipe and let me know what you think. Onion rings are also good for pulutan with San Miguel Beer. Did I make you guys hungry for onion rings or the San Mig?

Have fun eating!

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  1. Thanks, Feyma,

    And for those who don't realize it, these rings are special. I have always liked deep fried onion rings but I seldom eat them … or eat many of the commercial version. They are too heavy and oily. Feyma's rings are not heavy or oily at all, I enjoyed them a lot.

    For those of you who haven't tried Feymas fish recioe a few posts back I strongly urge you to give that a try too … Mita cooked fish using that recipe at her sisters last week … Mita's sister is agood cook and the family is used to lots of different foods, but they never had fried fish like that … the fish was disappearing quicker faster than it could be freid. My FIL coked fried fish tonght but his was not nearly as good. The beer and the yeast add a lightness to the batter that makes a real difference.

  2. Feyma, that sounds like a good recipe. I can't wait to visit Gensan again, just 2 weeks left. Just 12 days, and I'm done with my tax season here.

    I really hope we'll get a chance to meet. But don't worry, if ever we'll meet, I'm a very low maintenance person, so you don't have to prepare onion rings. 🙂 However, if you really insist, who am I to say no? 🙂

  3. Well Feyma I have to taste them to give you my honest unbiased starving and hungry opinion. Have you got any left?

  4. Hi Dave Starr – Thank you so much Dave. Sorry it took me a few days to give you the recipe.

    I'm really happy that you enjoyed the fish and chips recipe. Thank you for the goodies that you guys sent. We love it. Hope to see you guys soon here! 😉

  5. Hi Lea – Wow, your visiting here. Yeah hope to meet up with you sometime. I hope you have time for that.

    Sure, I can prepare the onion rings. You will just provide the drinks and others. 😉

  6. Hi John – Sure. When are you coming over? I sure would like you to try it. I really want your honest opinion on that too. 😉

    Really I will invite you sometime to taste it. I know Steve's not here to cook for you and the gang. Gosh, I missed my partner in cooking you know? 😉