Deep Fried Onions Recipe

Name: Making Fried Onions Recipe Top 3*** | Thomas Sixt Foodblog
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: onions 4-6 pc; flour 2-3 tbs; sweet pepper 1 tbs; sun flower oil 1,5 L; Salt 1 tsp

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roasted onions — Fried Onions Recipe Picture © Thomas Sixt

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Thomas Sixt is a chef, food photographer, cookbook author and blogger.
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Here you will find my recipe for fried onion rings. The delicious decoration gives the mashed potatoes a super taste kick.

We chefs like to serve them with burgers and other meat dishes. On vegetarian dishes the crispy fellows conjure up a hearty finish.

What do you want to serve the crispy onions for? I would be happy if you leave us a comment at the bottom of the page.

I will be very happy to answer your cooking questions. Maybe you also find it exciting to discover new ideas and let all chefs participate here 🙂

Let us now ask ourselves how the onions succeed perfectly in the preparation process.

I have put together a lot of photos and instructions for you to answer this question. For now, I wish you a lot of fun while reading and good luck later on!

Table of Contents

1. Attunement and Ingredients for Fried Onions
2. Recipe Fried Onions Rings
3. Calories and Nutritional Values
4. What do the Fried Onions go with
5. More Cooking Tips for your Kitchen

1. Attunement and Ingredients for Fried Onions

There was a landlord in our village, in my Bavarian homeland. Ingrid, the innkeeper’s wife, cooked the meals in the kitchen. Ingrid was a wonderful cook. The food was simple, traditional and always well seasoned. There was no fuss on the plate – it was simply excellent home cooking.

I still remember her Viennese schnitzel and the stuffed breast of veal from her kitchen. The crowning glory was always the steaks that the “Berg” – that was the name of the innkeeper – kept in the cold store and carefully brought to the kitchen according to their degree of ripeness. They were the perfect team.

By the way, this was a time in my youth when vegetarian cooking did not play any role at all. No one had given it any thought then, and there were no people with food intolerances or other “culinary” problems. Sometimes I feel a real longing for that time. There were no hostility at the table, the good food was served and we could enjoy. It was uncomplicated and beautiful.

The steaks from the Ingrid were at least as good as everything I later tried in the starred kitchens of this world. The Ingrid made her roasted onions fresh every day. There we have the first secret:

Fresh and crispy fried onions taste best. You can also keep the onions warm.
Preparation tip from chef Thomas Sixt

To prepare the fried onions you need

Frying fat: —————-> Use a refined sunflower oil for frying.
Onions: —————–> medium size onions are ideal for onion rings!
Flour and paprika: ——> wheat flour or wheat flour as well as peppers sweet as a nut.
Salt: ————————> Use unpurified primal salt, which contains 80+ minerals and is healthy.

The onion rings are coated with flour and paprika to give them an initially dusty and later crispy coating. Let’s have a look at some photos to get to the preparation very quickly.

fried fried onions — Frying is best done at a temperature of 175°C. Pay attention to the colour of the onions and use a deep-frying basket.

The optimum temperature for frying the fried onions is approx. 170°C
Tip from chef Thomas Sixt

2. Recipe Fried Onions Rings

Deep Fried Onions

Cooked, photographed and written down by chef Thomas Sixt.

Servings 4

Calories 406

Preparation Time 15 Min.

Cook Time 15 Min.

Total Time 30 Min.

Simple step by step tutorial on how to make deep fried onion rings.

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Ingredients

4-6	pc	onions (I use medium yellow onions)
2-3	tbs	flour (I use gluten-free flour)
1	tbs	sweet pepper
1,5	L	sun flower oil
1	tsp	Salt (I use primal salt)

Instruction

Prepare the onions

Preparation step 1

Cut the onion rings — Cut or slice the peeled onion into rings.

Prepare onion

Peel the onions and cut them into 2 mm thick rings with a chef’s knife or plane.

Preparation step 2

Onion rings

Prepare the onion slices in a bowl and pick them into individual rings with your hands.

Preparation step 3

Onion rings adding flour and paprika — Mix the onion, cut into rings or grated, with the flour and paprika. Please do not water the onions as this will make them sweet.

Add flour

Add sifted flour and paprika to the onion rings.

Preparation step 4

Prepare onion rings for deep-frying — You do the mixing with flour and paprika shortly before deep-frying. The rings will then be crispier and will not draw any water. So heat up the fat beforehand. Deep-frying goes in the pot or in the deep fryer.

Mix onions

Mix the onion rings with flour and paprika.

Prepare fried onions

Preparation step 5

Fry the onion rings — Make fried onions yourself and fry them yourself.

Fry onions

Heat the oil to 175°C and put the onion rings coated with flour into the deep-frying basket and shake them out. Then deep-fry in the hot oil.

Preparation step 6

Drain Onions

Drain the crispy light brown fried onions in a frying basket.

Preparation step 7

Season salt

Season the crispy onions with salt and serve to taste or use as an ingredient or for decoration as in the contribution.

Tip: For especially fine gourmet roasted onions you can use shallots as a base!

3. Calories and Nutritional Values

4. What do the Fried Onions go with

I will leave some ideas for the use in your kitchen orchestra 🙂

Potato puree: Best sprinkled on top as decoration and flavour component
Cheese spaetzle: Fold in the onions and sprinkle over the cheese.
Potato cheese: Fold in as decoration and for the taste.
Vegan lard: Brings the hearty touch with marjoram.
Potato goulasch: Fry the parsley as well, the combination with onions is delicious.
Fried dumplings: The onions give variety and a great mouth feel.
Veal liver: Gladly sprinkle with the sauce or pimp the side dishes!