Oven Baked Onion Rings
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Oven Baked Onion Rings – Baked, not fried! Serve them up with a spicy dipping sauce for the perfect party appetizer or game day snack!
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My first-favorite side option for a hamburger is french fries, hands down. I just love them soooo much! Slathered in fry sauce ideally. (If you don’t know what fry sauce is, you are really missing out and need to visit Utah. No, it is not ketchup. Ketchup is ketchup. Fry sauce is fry sauce)
Ha, speaking of fry sauce… when my husband I were first married we traveled for about six weeks for his work. We stayed in Chicago Illinois, Dallas Texas, and Washington D.C. and I embarrassed my brand-new husband by asking for fry sauce in every single state. They had no idea what I was talking about. How do you people live without fry sauce???? Seriously.
So, french fries are my first-favorite hamburger-side dish (or really my favorite side dish for any dish, ever) but, onion rings are probably second or third on the list. If they are made right. If they are crunchy and seasoned properly (meaning, seasoned at all because sometimes they just have breadcrumbs and no seasoning which is not acceptable) and they must have a rockin dipping sauce. Ketchup will not do. I must have something more.
Thus far, I have never fried in my house. Crazy right? I just don’t fry. But sometimes a girl’s gotta have onion rings. Especially around football time. The oven is often very underestimated in its ability to do more than produce a batch of cookies or a cheesy breakfast casserole. Ovens can also deliver the most delicious, crispy baked-not-fried onion rings. These ones are perfect! Just enough crunch, but there’s still onion in there you know? I’ve ordered onion rings a few times that came so deep-fried that there was only the empty shell left, the onion had disintegrated. True story. But these crispy Oven Baked Onion Rings come out with a crunchy outside and a juicy onion inside. So good! And the dipping sauce? Heaven. So simple yet so amazing! These Oven Baked Onion Rings are game day approved so plan on making a batch pronto!
More Recipes to Try
- Winger’s Sticky Fingers – the perfect iconic copycat, ready in just 30 minutes!
- Best Potato Wedges Recipe – crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside.
- Homemade Baked Corn Dogs – a healthier twist but just as crispy and golden!
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Oven Baked Onion Rings
Ingredients
- 1 large white or yellow onion, peeled, sliced, and separated into rings
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tablespoons milk
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 cups bread crumbs
- ⅓ cup flour
- salt + pepper, to taste
- cooking spray
Sauce
- ⅓ cup mayo
- ¼ cup ketchup
- 1 teaspoon Sriracha
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450. Line a baking sheet with foil and spray heavily with cooking spray.
- In a bowl whisk together egg whites and milk. Place breadcrumbs in a second bowl. Add flour, salt and pepper to taste, cayenne pepper, and garlic powder in a large zip lock bag, seal and shake to mix seasonings.
- Open the bag and add the onion rings. Seal and shake to coat the rings well. Take onion rings out and one at a time, dip into egg-milk mixture making sure to coat all sides, then into the breadcrumbs, also coating all sides.
- Place rings in a single layer on prepared baking sheet. Spray heavily with cooking spray. Bake 20-25 minutes (depending on how crispy you want them).
- While onion rings are baking, prepare the dipping sauce. Mix together mayo, ketchup, and hot chili sauce. Chill until ready to serve.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
How did you get the onions to have that shell? When I baked them, they didn’t expand or anything and just stayed very small…
Great recipe and I love the Thousand Island dressing recipe you included. This is also good with fried green tomatoes. They could be made according to this recipe too. Thanks!
This recipe is great. I love onion rings!
Here is a recipe for healthy baked onion rings which you might like.
Thanks for Sharing.
Sally
made these tonight. Used panko instead of regular bread crumbs. Oh.my.god.these.are.so.yummy. They were gone in minutes. Thanks 🙂
Made Them, Loved Them, Ate Them ALL!
And they’re baked, can’t get better than that!
These look soooooooooo good! I can’t wait to try them.
Our whole family loves onion rings. Knowing I can make
really good ones without frying is fantastic. The sauce looks
amazing. We love spicy!
Thanks Tiffany.
Love how crispy these look! Definitely need to try these. Pinned. 🙂
This recipe looks easy and sounds delicious! But the sequencing seems a little off. Onion rings into bag with flour and spices before putting them into the liquid? And there is no mention of when you put them in the breadcrumbs?? Really want to try these but want to get them right!
Hi Laurie! This recipe really is a piece of cake and so yummy! I double checked the recipe but it’s correct! I know it seems a little strange to put the onions in the flour mixture first but the onions have enough moisture already on their own that they do well in the flour. Then place them in the egg mixture, then in the breadcrumbs! I hope you love these! 🙂
Thanks Tiffany! The original recipe doesn’t mention when to put them in the breadcrumbs, that’s the part that was confusing. Will give these a go today!
The sequencing is correct. You must’ve misread the instructions. She does mention putting the rings in the breadcrumbs after the wet mixture.
Looking so great. i love this food.Great idea.
These onion rings look so good! Crispy, golden, and perfect with that fry sauce. I too am a huge fan of fry sauce, once you have it you’ll never go back to ketchup!
It’s so true, ketchup just won’t do the trick after you’ve tried fry sauce you will never go back haha! Thanks Danae!