Crispy tobacco onions. Crispy tobacco onions, very easy, very tasty, beat onion rings anytime. The crispy tobacco onions go best with steak, chops or burgers - but you might just polish them on their own given a. An onion (or two, or four), halved and sliced very thinly, cayenne pepper, sweet paprika, garlic granules, old bay seasoning - optional, plain flour, groundnut or sunflower oil for deep frying.
Tobacco onions are deep fried onion rings which are spiced with cayenne.
When cooked they look like shredded tobacco.
Very flavourful and a great snack or side dish!
You can cook Crispy tobacco onions using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Crispy tobacco onions
- You need of an onion (or two, or four), halved and sliced very thinly.
- It's of cayenne pepper.
- Prepare of sweet paprika.
- Prepare of garlic granules.
- You need of Old Bay Seasoning – optional.
- Prepare of plain flour.
- You need of groundnut or sunflower oil for deep frying.
This is "Crispy tobacco onions" by allrecipes uk on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. These are a little more flavoursome than typical fried onions and go a little further. A side dish for any main meal but mainly used for any dish that goes well with chips, such as steak. Tobacco Onions comprise a sliced large onion soaked in buttermilk.
Crispy tobacco onions instructions
- Feel free to experiment with spices. If you like more kick, add some chilli powder. There should be enough of it altogether to colour the coated onions, at least 1-2 tsp of each..
- Put the sliced onions into a bowl and sprinkle with salt, separating into feathers. Leave for a few minutes so that they soften. In another bowl mix flour with the spices. Heat the oil to 200C in a deep fat fryer or a pan large enough to contain your amount of onions..
- Toss the onions in the flour mix so that they are all well coated. When the oil is hot enough, fry them until dark brown and really crisp – you might have to do it in batches..
- Drain on paper towels, serve and watch them disappear….
Drenched in a spicy flour mixture it is then fried until golden and crispy. Toss the sliced onions in the batter, then with tongs or a fork lower small blobs of the oniony mixture into the oil. Peel and slice onions thinly, separate into rings. Mix flour and seasonings in a medium bowl. Dredge onion rings in seasoned flour, shake off excess.
