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This easy recipe for sweet cornmeal onion rings uses slender slices of Vidalia onions in a cornmeal coating for the lightest and most flavorful onion rings ever. Bet you can’t eat just one! I have very specific feelings when it comes to onion rings.  If they are the kind of onion rings that are thickly sliced and batter-coated – you know the kind where sometimes the onion part slides out and the batter coating is left standing intact – I’m not even tempted.  But if they are the kind that are thin and lightly covered with a crunchy cornmeal coating…well then, I am powerless and must Eat Them All.  Which is why I only make these every once in a blue moon…they are that kind of good.  Ready for light and crunchy  sweet cornmeal onion rings?  Let’s make them!

Now, my absolute favorite sweet onion in the whole wide world is the Vidalia onion, and that’s not just because they are from the Southern husband’s home state of Georgia.  Nope, it’s because they are light and gently sweet and cook up into tender perfection.  Most Vidalia onions are grown on family farms across Georgia, and I do love anything and everything that supports family farms. And we are currently smack in the middle of Vidalia onion season, which runs from April through August, so prepare yourself for a few more Vidalia onion recipes in the weeks to come, because I got me a nice big bowl-full of them.  And I made the very first two into these delectable onion rings.

This easy recipe for sweet cornmeal onion rings uses slender slices of Vidalia onions in a cornmeal coating for the lightest and most flavorful onion rings ever. Bet you can't eat just one! #recipeClick To TweetYou want to peel them, and then cut them into the skinniest rings you can manage.  I aim for about a quarter inch or so.  Then I cover them with lots of buttermilk and pop them in the fridge for a good 24 hours or so.

When onion ring making time rolls around, I mix up some flour and cornmeal and salt, drain the buttermilk off of the onions, and coat them in that cornmeal mixture. Then I pop them in a pot full of hot vegetable oil until they are golden brown, scoop them out onto paper towels, sprinkle them with salt and let the eating begin.  In this case the eating was delayed while I took their picture for you. Side note: that is my new haircut that I am testing out for mother-of-the-bride purposes.  It’s a subtle version of a stacked bob, and I’m eager for opinions.  Meantime, while I was making onion rings, the Southern husband was outside cooking a steak to go with them. That is the picture of an utterly relaxed hound dog luxuriating in the mistaken belief that the steak sizzling away on the grill is for dogs.  Hey, we all gotta have dreams.  Mine is that at least a few more times between now and August, I will be eating handfuls of glorious sweet cornmeal onion rings.  And I hope you do too! 







*The Vidalia onions used in this recipe were provided courtesy of Porter Novelli.  All opinions and commentary are our own.




