Beer-Battered Onion Rings

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2009, Cook's Country TV

The soggy, doughy reality is that onion rings fried in beer batter are rarely good. We hoped to improve the odds.

SERVES 4 to 6

TIME 1 hour, plus 30 minutes soaking

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Tasters preferred the gentle flavor of sweet onions to any other kind for our Beer-Battered Onion Rings. After testing many different batters, we settled on a beer, flour, salt, pepper, baking powder, and cornstarch batter. The beer gave th...

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