Rojo Onion Rings

Total Time: 23 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 cups canola oil
• 1/2 cup hot sauce (recommended -- sriracha)
• 2/3 cup ketchup
• 1 teaspoon water
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 cups panko breadcrumbs, bread crumbs
• 2 large sweet onions, peeled and cut into 3/8-inch thick rings, discarding cores
• 1 teaspoon sea salt

Recipe

• 1 in a heavy bottom skillet or deep-fryer, heat the oil to 370 degrees f.
• 2 combine the hot sauce, ketchup and water in a shallow bowl until incorporated. in 4 separate, shallow bowls or pie pans, separate the buttermilk, flour and panko and put all the bowls in this work order: buttermilk, flour, hot sauce mixture, panko bread crumbs.
• 3 dip the onion rings into the buttermilk, then in the flour, then into the hot sauce mixture and finish them with the panko.
• 4 submerge the rings in batches and deep-fry until bright red and starting to brown, about 2 to 3 minutes, turning as needed. once fried, remove them from the oil to a plate lined with a paper towel and sprinkle with sea salt.