Onion ring success!

After thinking about my onion rings a bit, I started questioning myself.  My biggest question was "What seasonings are there in a usual fried onion ring recipe?"  I found a recipe online that used just salt for seasoning.  As I was reading the reviews (there were at least 600, and the recipe still had 5 stars), I saw someone wrote that they had followed the fried onion ring recipe and baked it instead!  I was sold!  With my final vidalia onion, I embarked upon what would later be called a successful gastronomical (Yeah, that is a real word. Look it up) journey.

Onion Rings 3.0

1 vidalia onion
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup egg (or egg substitute)
2 T milk (I used 3T and that was too much)
1/2 cup bread crumbs (Which was my final 1 1/2 high fiber hamburger buns)

Preheat the oven to 400 F.  Grease a cookie sheet with cooking spray.  Cut ends off onion.  Slice into 1/4-3/8" rings.  Put onion rings, flour, baking powder, and salt all in quart to gallon sized zipper bag. Shake to coat.  Pour out flour into small bowl. Add egg and milk and mix well.  Pour back into the zipper bag and fully coat rings.  Set up a wire rack over paper towels (I just put it over my plastic cutting board since it is washable).  Place all rings on the rack and allow to drip.  Once they stop dripping, toss in the bread crumbs.  Lightly coat tops of rings with more cooking spray.  Bake 12 to 13 minutes, flip, and bake another 12 to 13 minutes, until golden brown and delicious.

***  First thing I noticed:  These actually smelled like real onion rings!  Second thing: They taste like them, too.  I think that next time I will add 1/2 teaspoon salt to the bread crumbs.  I made up a batch of zesty sauce for these, but realized that took away from the flavor.  They were awesome on their own.  Very delicate, though.  I will make these in the future!  Maybe tomorrow.  I just need to run to Meijer first and stock up on more hamburger buns (or bread) and onions! ***

The onion ring blogging chapter of my life is over.  I feel a little sad now.  What is next?  Give me ideas!