What is Jia Cooking? Pt 4.
Guinness Beer Battered Onion Rings
ZOMG. Ever since going to Brocach (which by the way is an excellent restaurant) over a week ago, I have been admiring the simple deliciousness of beerbattered food. Though I dislike the taste of beer, only the good flavors remain once food is beer battered. I thought this was worth it enough to purchase a case of Guinness and start experimenting. Per Joe's request, I took some intermediate step photos.
Serving: serves 2-4 ppl as an appetizer. Prep: 10 min. Cook: (depends on capacity of deep fryer) 30 min - 1.5 hr
Level of delciousness and impressiveness: High. Once you make this, you'll never want to return to the frozen crap again.
Borrowed from the recipe from the Food Channel.
Ingredients
1 sweet onion - try to keep it BIG, like, size of two fists or more big
1 c buttermilk (alternatively substitute with 1 c milk and 1 TBSP white vinegar, mix ... weird how the world of cooking works, huh?)
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp brown sugar
2 tsp salt
3/4 c. flour
3/4 c. flour
3/4 bottle of Guinness, Extra Stout
oil to fry (~3-4 c depending on the size of your deep frying pot of choice; I know this isn't kosher, but I just used a tall saucepan)
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1) Peel and slice onion to ~ 1/2inch to 3/4 inch rings; separate rings
2) Add vegetable oil to deep fryer, heat to 350 degrees (If you do not have a thermometer... our electric stove had to be turned to high for 8 min and down to medium for the remainder of the time once we started cooking)
3) Submerge all onion in buttermilk (you may need an additional cup of buttermilk) for at least 5 min
4) While waiting, mix pepper, garlic powder, brown sugar, salt, and 3/4c. flour in second bowl
5) Whisk beer and 3/4 c. flour in 3rd bowl. You should have something like this:
6) Depending on the capacity of your deep fryer, start getting ready with your first batch of rings as follows:
Make sure to shake off excess (1) buttermilk before you dip into spiced flour (2) spiced flour before you dip into beer batter (3) beer batter before you lower into deep fryer.
7) Be sure to carefully lower the ring into the deep fryer. You don't want to be splashing around 350 degree oil!
8) Fry and turn periodically for 2 min.
9) Drain on plate and enjoy!!! (Additional sprinkling of salt may be needed).
Note: One thing I realized after making this: It is essential that you follow the soak with the dry flour step before batter, no matter how tedious. That's how you can get the batter to fluff and "wrap around" a sweet and soft (result of the buttermilk bath! :P) onion ring instead of sticking to it.
Guinness FTW!
ZOMG. Ever since going to Brocach (which by the way is an excellent restaurant) over a week ago, I have been admiring the simple deliciousness of beerbattered food. Though I dislike the taste of beer, only the good flavors remain once food is beer battered. I thought this was worth it enough to purchase a case of Guinness and start experimenting. Per Joe's request, I took some intermediate step photos.
Serving: serves 2-4 ppl as an appetizer. Prep: 10 min. Cook: (depends on capacity of deep fryer) 30 min - 1.5 hr
Level of delciousness and impressiveness: High. Once you make this, you'll never want to return to the frozen crap again.
Borrowed from the recipe from the Food Channel.
Ingredients
1 sweet onion - try to keep it BIG, like, size of two fists or more big
1 c buttermilk (alternatively substitute with 1 c milk and 1 TBSP white vinegar, mix ... weird how the world of cooking works, huh?)
1/2 tsp pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp brown sugar
2 tsp salt
3/4 c. flour
3/4 c. flour
3/4 bottle of Guinness, Extra Stout
oil to fry (~3-4 c depending on the size of your deep frying pot of choice; I know this isn't kosher, but I just used a tall saucepan)
---
1) Peel and slice onion to ~ 1/2inch to 3/4 inch rings; separate rings
2) Add vegetable oil to deep fryer, heat to 350 degrees (If you do not have a thermometer... our electric stove had to be turned to high for 8 min and down to medium for the remainder of the time once we started cooking)
3) Submerge all onion in buttermilk (you may need an additional cup of buttermilk) for at least 5 min
4) While waiting, mix pepper, garlic powder, brown sugar, salt, and 3/4c. flour in second bowl
5) Whisk beer and 3/4 c. flour in 3rd bowl. You should have something like this:
6) Depending on the capacity of your deep fryer, start getting ready with your first batch of rings as follows:
Make sure to shake off excess (1) buttermilk before you dip into spiced flour (2) spiced flour before you dip into beer batter (3) beer batter before you lower into deep fryer.
7) Be sure to carefully lower the ring into the deep fryer. You don't want to be splashing around 350 degree oil!
8) Fry and turn periodically for 2 min.
9) Drain on plate and enjoy!!! (Additional sprinkling of salt may be needed).
Note: One thing I realized after making this: It is essential that you follow the soak with the dry flour step before batter, no matter how tedious. That's how you can get the batter to fluff and "wrap around" a sweet and soft (result of the buttermilk bath! :P) onion ring instead of sticking to it.
Guinness FTW!