I have been craving onion rings lately…But I dont like the idea of deep fried food. So I made a research on fried and baked onion rings, and I came up with this recipe that makes a really crunchy and tasty onion ring thats low in fat, vegan and healthy!
You need :
-2-3 onions chopped in 1 cm circles
-2 tbsp flaxseeds
-1/3 cup water
-1/2 cup beer
-5 tbsp wholemeal pastry flour
-3 tbsp all purpose flour
-2 tbsp nutritional yeast
-1 tsp salt -1/2 tsp paprika
-1/2 cup fat-free breadcrumbs
- Olive oil spray
First grind your flaxseeds as fine as possible. Its ok if its chunky. Now place them in a small mixing bowl with 1/3 cup water and leave for 20 min or until the water become slimy/sticky (thats our egg white sub) When flax egg is ready combine with beer and gradually add whole wheat flour stirring. In a separate mixing bowl combine breadcrumbs, nutritional yeast, salt and paprika. And in another mixing bowl place white flour (I know it sounds like a lot of work, but its not).
In the picture you see the three mixing bowls : white flour, flax egg beer batter and breadcrumbs. Arrange them in this order and dip each onion rings one by one first in the white flour, then dip it completely in the batter and toss it in breadcrumb mix to cover it copletely. Oil a baking dish and place onion rings inside one next to the other. Spray with more oil over onion rings.
Preheat oven at 190C and bake for 30 min or until golden brown and crispy. Serve them with sour cream dip (recipe on sour cream jacket potato). If you have a lot of leftover batter store in the fridge to reuse within a week.
I have been craving onion rings lately…But I dont like the idea of deep fried food. So I made a research on fried and baked onion rings, and I came up with this recipe that makes a really crunchy and tasty onion ring thats low in fat, vegan and healthy!
You need :
-2-3 onions chopped in 1 cm circles
-2 tbsp flaxseeds
-1/3 cup water
-1/2 cup beer
-5 tbsp wholemeal pastry flour
-3 tbsp all purpose flour
-2 tbsp nutritional yeast
-1 tsp salt -1/2 tsp paprika
-1/2 cup fat-free breadcrumbs
- Olive oil spray
First grind your flaxseeds as fine as possible. Its ok if its chunky. Now place them in a small mixing bowl with 1/3 cup water and leave for 20 min or until the water become slimy/sticky (thats our egg white sub) When flax egg is ready combine with beer and gradually add whole wheat flour stirring. In a separate mixing bowl combine breadcrumbs, nutritional yeast, salt and paprika. And in another mixing bowl place white flour (I know it sounds like a lot of work, but its not).
In the picture you see the three mixing bowls : white flour, flax egg beer batter and breadcrumbs. Arrange them in this order and dip each onion rings one by one first in the white flour, then dip it completely in the batter and toss it in breadcrumb mix to cover it copletely. Oil a baking dish and place onion rings inside one next to the other. Spray with more oil over onion rings.
Preheat oven at 190C and bake for 30 min or until golden brown and crispy. Serve them with sour cream dip (recipe on sour cream jacket potato). If you have a lot of leftover batter store in the fridge to reuse within a week.