Ingredients
- Peanut oil, for frying
- 1 cup whole buttermilk
- 1 large egg
- 1 sleeve soda crackers, crushed (recommended: Saltine)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black chipotle chili pepper
- 2 large onions, cut into 1/4-inch thick slices and separated into rings
Directions
In a deep-fryer or Dutch oven, heat 4 inches of peanut oil to 360 degrees F.
In a shallow dish, whisk together the buttermilk and egg until combined.
In a separate shallow dish, combine the crushed crackers, flour, salt, and chili pepper.
Dredge the onion slices into the buttermilk mixture, then in the cracker mixture. Fry, in batches, if necessary, for 2 to 3 minutes per batch. Remove from the oil, and drain on paper towels. Transfer to a serving platter and serve immediately with dipping sauce, if desired.
Chipotle Cream Dipping Sauce: (May/June 06, pg. 72)
- 1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
- 1/2 chipotle pepper in adobo sauce, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon adobo sauce from can
- 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream
- 2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
- 1/2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
In a small bowl, combine all the ingredients; cover and refrigerate until using.
Yield: 1 1/4 cup
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By misshana33
Spanish Fork, UT
on May 01, 2012
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Vadalia onions made it taste better than a restaurant!!
By christy b
altus, ok
on March 01, 2012
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This is an excellent recipe! I never have buttermilk so I made my own. I let the onion rings set in the buttermilk for 4 hours, added the egg then did the dredging process. I also added some chipotle powder to the dry mixture.
By oiateone2
on December 15, 2011
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Taste delic! Had trouble with the saltines & flour not sticking to the buttermilk batter.... and onion. I did use a powdered buttermilk, because i do not always have fresh buttermilk handy. Maybe it is thinny mixing the canned powdered buttermilk then using fresh store bought. Very lite batter tough and I fried what i needed in a cast iron skillet. Worked great. Next time i will try using fresh buttermilk and cut back on the flour to 3/4 cup or less.
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