Leek Rings

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So good. I never would have thought of this idea. This will be a favorite of mine.

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I wanted to try leeks so I went ahead and made this. It was OK. I did add more seasoning to the flour mixture. I can say though, I tried leeks and will stick to onions. Just not enough bite for me.

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They are pretty plain, but just add a few spices to your flour mixture and they're perfect for an appetizer or side dish. I made these to go with some fried flounder and they were great because they didn't have a strong onion taste. They were very light and delicate...perfect for someone who loves onion rings but gets annoyed when the soggy onion slips right out of the fried batter!

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This isn't as hard to make as some reviewers have said. I agree with the review submitted by Robert, I prefer onion rings. The leek rings are very milld to the point of near blandness.

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Never having tried leeks before and an ardent fan of the onion ring, I decided to give this recipe a try. As other reviewers commented, they are a bit tedious to make. I dispensed with the silliness of the two glove dipping stradegy Alton used and went straight for a simple pair of blade tongs. They made coating the small rings much easier and could be used to turn them in the fryinig pan as well.

They tasted wonderful but the egg/flour batter Alton suggested didn't stay crisp for long .After 20 minutes or so they began to get somewhat "stale" so I tried it again the next day with a commercial Vidalia coating and was delighted with the outcome. The coating was crunchier and held up much longer than the egg/flour combo.

As a final test I used the same coating on some good old fashioned sweet onions and found the taste better than the leeks altogether. Considering the extra price of the leeks and the sweeter taste of the "sweet" onions I think I'll leave the leeks for applications other than onion rings.

As a side note, I found that the leeks irritated my eyes almost as much as regular onions while the sweet onions did not bother me at all.

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Rather than flour in the last dredging station, I used Panko bread crumbs, and it came out even better than I anticipated. The only problem I ran into was that the egg dredge was a little thin and the Panko didn't stick too well, so next time I believe I will try flour, egg, flour, egg, then the Panko.

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This is the first time I have ever eaten leeks, and I trusted Alton to guide me through it. Very tasty - they are indeed better than onion rings!!

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The Recipe was pretty great! I added bread crumbs to the dry mixture and it was a great addition.

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The recipe was wonderful and very simple to follow. However, I did not have Alton's art of preparing as I ended up with a club hand and a club fork. Tried every which a way and still had a mess. LOL. However, the recipe was very good. Maybe I just need more practice.

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We really enjoyed making and eating these, although the kids were afraid we had made them calamari when they saw the heaping plate of fried squiggly thing.