An onion ring, also called a French fried onion ring, is a form of
appetizer
An hors d'oeuvre ( ; french: hors-d'œuvre ), appetiser or starter is a small dish served before a meal in European cuisine. Some hors d'oeuvres are served cold, others hot. Hors d'oeuvres may be served at the dinner table as a part of the m ...
or
side dish in
British and
American cuisine
American cuisine consists of the cooking style and traditional dishes prepared in the United States. It has been significantly influenced by Europeans, indigenous Native Americans, Africans, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and many other cultures a ...
. They generally consist of a cross-sectional "ring" of
onion
An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus '' Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the on ...
dipped in
batter or
bread crumbs
Bread crumbs or breadcrumbs (regional variants including breading and crispies) consist of crumbled bread of various dryness, sometimes with seasonings added, used for breading or crumbing foods, topping casseroles, stuffing poultry, thicken ...
and then
deep fried; a variant is made with onion paste. While typically served as a side dish, onion rings are often eaten by themselves.
History
A British recipe from 1802 calls for cutting onions into slices, dipping them into a batter, adding Parmesan cheese, and deep frying them in lard. It suggests serving them with a sauce of melted butter and mustard.
Recipes for and references to deep-fried battered onion slices or rings are found across the 20th century: one in
Middletown, New York in 1910; another in a 1933 advertisement for
Crisco.
Various restaurants claimed to have invented onion rings, including the
Kirby's Pig Stand restaurant chain, founded in
Oak Cliff, Texas in the early 1920s.
Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
)
Food chemistry
The cooking process decomposes
propanethial oxide in the onion into the sweet-smelling and tasting
bispropenyl disulfide, responsible for the slightly sweet taste of onion rings.
See also
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Blooming onion – a whole onion that is cut into a flower shape that fans out
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Fried onion
Fried onions are slices of onions that are either pan fried (sautéed) or deep fried — and consumed as a popular snack food, Garnish (food), garnish, or vegetable accompaniment to various recipes.
Sautéed onions
Common fried onions are cooked ...
s
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Funyuns – an onion flavored, corn based snack food, shaped like onion rings
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List of deep fried foods
This is a list of deep fried foods and dishes. Deep frying is a cooking method in which food is submerged in hot fat, such as cooking oil. This is normally performed with a deep fryer or chip pan, and industrially, a pressure fryer or vacuum ...
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List of hors d'oeuvre
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List of onion dishes
References
External links
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