Baked Onion Rings
Ditch the deep fryer and the grease in favor of these easy and delicious Baked Onion Rings! These rings are crispy and full of flavor!
If you love onion rings but don’t love the hassle of deep frying or feeling guilty from consuming all that extra grease, then these Baked Onion Rings are just what you need! They are an easy and indulgent way to enjoy your favorite side dish, but without all the guilt and frying nonsense.
Baked onion rings get their heavenly crispy crust from being coated in a mixture of flour, seasonings, and Panko breadcrumbs. After being thoroughly coated, they are then placed onto a sheetpan and baked until they are nice and golden brown. Dip them in some fry sauce and you’ll transcend into crunchy onion ring heaven!
Few things are better than a lightened-up version of a typically calorie-filled classic. Especially when the new version tastes just as good, if not better, than the unhealthy version. So, what are you waiting for? Heat up that oven and get to baking up this show stopping Baked Onion Rings!
INGREDIENTS
Just a few simple ingredients are all you need for these delicious Baked Onion Rings!
- Onion: sliced into thin rings.
- Flour and seasonings: to get that yummy, flavorful coating.
- Eggs: to help bind and hold the coating onto the rings.
- Panko breadcrumbs: to create that coating nice and crispy.
THE BEST DIPPING SAUCES FOR ONION RINGS
Try my fry sauce recipe here: Utah Fry Sauce. This amazing stuff is a dipping sauce that’s used to dip just about anything in. We use it on burgers, sandwiches, corn dogs, chicken nuggets, fries, and onion rings (just to name a few)! It’s so simple, yet SO tasty.
DIPPING ALTERNATIVES
If fry sauce doesn’t sound like a sauce you’d like, then no worries! Here’s a few other dipping options that are just as tasty:
Ranch: keep it simple and dip your onion rings in some ranch! You can never go wrong with this dipping classic.
Onion sauce: this is a sauce that many of you will recognize from Outback! It does contain horseradish though, so it will have a little kick to it.
BBQ sauce: another dipping classic, but with a smokier taste.
Ketchup: you can’t go wrong with some classic ketchup!
Honey Mustard: this one is tasty and has a slight sweetness to it that pairs deliciously with the onion rings!
ENJOY THIS RECIPE? HERE ARE A FEW MORE YOU MAY LIKE:
Garlic Parmesan French Fries – double-fried French fries topped with freshly grated parmesan cheese and garlic.
Parmesan Ranch Potato Chips – crispy potato chips covered in parmesan cheese and full of ranch flavor.
Cheesy Bacon Rotel Cups – gooey cheese, crispy bacon, tomatoes, and green chilies stuffed inside a pastry cup that are baked to perfection!
Mexican Layer Dip – traditional layered dip with refried beans, sour cream, guacamole, fresh salsa and more!
Baked Onion Rings
Ingredients
- 1 large yellow onion
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons seasoning salt
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 2 large eggs
- 2 ¼ cups Panko breadcrumbs
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees F. Spray a large rimmed baking sheet generously with nonstick spray. Set aside.
- Peel off the outer layer of the onion. Cut off the ends and slice the rest of the onion into thick rings. Separate the rings and place in a bowl of water.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, seasoning salt, and chili powder.
- In a separate bowl, whisk the eggs together.
- In a third bowl, add the Panko breadcrumbs.
- Taking one onion ring at at time; toss it in the flour mixture, coating very well. Then dunk it in the eggs, being sure to coat all sides. Toss the ring in the Panko crumbs to coat. Place coating rings on the prepared baking sheet. Repeat process with all remaining rings.
- Bake for 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown. Remove from oven and serve warm with your favorite sauces. Enjoy!
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I love homemade onion rings! They can never compare to Outback’s bloomin’ onion, but at least I don’t feel the need to work out and then feel guilty about never getting around to it.
I’m watching the awards now, and wishing that I had some of these lovely onion rings to munch on! Onion rings are a weakness of mine, and yours look so nice and crispy I know I’d never resist them. 🙂
How Cute! Fry Sauce! Never heard of it. But I know people living in this here house will love it. Gonna mix me up some Fry Sauce this week! As for those onion rings….they look wonderful. You know I’ve never made homemade onion rings, and now there’s no excuse. Great post sweets, thanks!
Nice! And I definitely like that they are baked – not fried. I have had horrible experiences trying to fry onion rings and keep the breading on…lol.
Those look wonderful and I love that they are baked.
Yum, Yum, YUMMY!
I will definately need to try these since my beer battered onion rings are deep fried and bad for the thighs, lol!
my Mom used to make ones like this. Really yummy!
These look delicious! They don’t have fry sauce where I live, but I often mix mayo and ketchup on my own for fries. What I love even more with onion rings are spicy horseradish based sauces (like the Outback steakhouse kind!)
– Maggie
im making these tonight!! 🙂
Now these look waaaaay good! I LOVE onion rings! And these seem healthier by baking them. Good idea to add corn flakes to the mixture!
Ooo Onion Rings that won’t make me feel quite so guilty!! Sign me up 🙂
I saw these on TK, looks wonderful! ~Megan
I need to try these! I love onion rings but would feel guilty eating them if they were fried. Baked = no guilt! And it even counts as a serving of vegetables, right? Right??? 😉
You these look great! I always make my own fry sauce whenever I have fries or onion rings!
Oh yum. I totally had other plans for making dinner tomorrow night but now I think I need to change the menu so that baked onion rings will fit in!
Holly, these onion rings look so fun. I love onion rings but hate the greasy spoon feel. Definately going to try these.