Description
This batter-fried onion and a spicy dipping sauce will get your party going any day!
Ingredients
- ½ cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon ketchup
- 2 tablespoons cream-style horseradish sauce
- ⅓ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ⅛ teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 pinch ground black pepper
- ⅓ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 egg
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ⅓ teaspoon dried oregano
- ⅛ teaspoon dried thyme
- ⅛ teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 large sweet onion
- ¾ cup vegetable oil for frying
Instructions
- Make sauce: Mix mayonnaise
- horseradish
- ketchup
- paprika
- cayenne
- salt
- oregano
- and black pepper together in a medium bowl until well combined. Cover and store in the refrigerator until needed.
- Make coating: Beat milk and egg together in a medium bowl until well combined. Mix flour
- salt
- cayenne pepper
- paprika
- black pepper
- oregano
- thyme
- and cumin together in a separate bowl. Set both bowls aside.
- Prepare onion: Slice 1 inch off of the top and bottom of onion and remove the papery skin. Remove a 1-inch diameter core from middle of onion
- leaving the very bottom of the root end intact. Use a large
- sharp knife to slice down center of onion about 3/4 of the way down; turn onion 90 degrees and slice again. Keep slicing each section in half until you have 16 sections
- being careful not to cut through bottom of onion.
- Spread “petals” apart. (To help keep them separate
- you could plunge onion into boiling water for 1 minute and then into cold water to stop the cooking.)
- Dip onion into milk mixture and then coat well with seasoned flour mixture
- separating the petals and sprinkling the flour mixture between them. Dip onion back into milk mixture
- then coat with flour mixture again to ensure all pieces are well coated.
- Heat oil in a deep fryer or deep pot to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Make sure you use enough oil to completely cover the onion when it fries.
- Lower onion
- cut-side up
- into the hot oil and fry until golden brown
- about 10 minutes. Drain on a rack or on paper towels.
- Open center of onion wide enough to fit the bowl of dipping sauce and serve.
Servings: 6