# Insane Onion Rings

A recipe for crispy onion rings made with a wet-dry-wet-dry batter method and fried to perfection.

- Total time: 4 min
- Cuisine: Mexican
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- onion
- buttermilk
- hot sauce
- garlic powder
- smoked paprika
- chipotle chili powder
- all-purpose flour
- cornstarch
- panko breadcrumbs
- hot oil
- flaky salt

## Instructions

1. Slice your onion down from the root, turn it around and slice the top.
2. Gently peel the onion, including taking off the membrane if you can find it.
3. If the onion is pretty flat, slice it in half.
4. Cover the onion rings in buttermilk and splash with a little hot sauce.
5. Add garlic powder, smoked paprika, and chipotle chili powder to the buttermilk-covered onions.
6. Very carefully try not to break the onion rings while mixing.
7. In a separate bowl, combine all-purpose flour with about 30-40% cornstarch and the same spices used for the buttermilk mixture.
8. Let the onions drip off all their excess moisture.
9. Instantly throw the onions into your flour mixture and let them dry out.
10. Go back into the wet batter.
11. Gently and carefully toss the onions into some panko breadcrumbs.
12. Very carefully, toss them into some hot oil set at 350 degrees.
13. Fry for about 4 minutes until incredible.
14. Hit them with a little bit of flaky salt.

## Tips

- Gently peel the onion and remove the membrane.
- Use a medium-sized onion for a good batter to onion ring ratio.
- Be careful not to break the onion rings while mixing with spices.
- Let the onions drip off excess moisture before adding to flour mixture.
- The batter method is wet, dry, wet, dry.

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdH6kbHJ/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/5e0a1e75-3b25-4337-9170-f6e1ce37aabe
- Extracted: 2026-04-26

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