Framing your latkes with onions rings is the absolute best way to upgrade your latkes.
Last year, we saw Mandy Silverman of @mandyliciouschallah create this cool onion ring-latkes mashup. We loved the twist. It was fun and totally in the spirit. After all, while you’re frying latkes, framing them with an onion ring completely made sense. As soon as we started planning our Chanukah content this year, we reached out to Mandy and asked if we could share this fabulous concept with our readers. She was more than happy to share!
Mandy made her own onion rings and filled them with latke mix (which she personally prefers for many reasons. For example, she likes the texture, etc).
While we were very attached to our perfected homemade latke recipe, we were still inspired. We wanted to try Mandy’s technique using our own onion rings and latkes.
They were a huge hit! Then we thought…if we were making BCP readers make latkes from scratch here, was there a way to save them a step? Would this perhaps work using frozen store-bought onion rings?
We tried it and yes! This shortcut also works perfectly.
These are very worth it. They might be your favorite fried item you enjoy over the whole Chanukah.
Cut the onions into ½-inch rounds.
Separate the rings. If your onions have very thin layers, keep two rings together. You don’t want your onion rings to be limp.
Combine batter “the glue” ingredients. And coat outside of the ring with the batter.
Coat with panko crumbs
Heat oil and place onion in hot oil. This is our favorite sauté pan/frying pan.
Spoon the latke mixture in the middle of the onion.
Fry for 2-3 minutes, until latke is set. Flip over to the other side.
When fried,
drain on a cooling rack or paper towel
Serve with sweet chili sauce or your favorite dipping sauce.
Onion Ring Latkes
Ingredients
- store-bought frozen onion rings OR
- 2 medium onions
- ½ cup cornstarch
- ¼ cup flour
- ½ tsp paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 ½ tsp salt
- pinch coarse black pepper
- ½ cup water
- 1 ½ cups panko crumbs
Latkes:
- Your favorite potato latkes ingredients OR Between Carpools potato latkes
Instructions
- Peel and slice onions into ½-inch rounds. Separate the rings. If your onions have very thin layers, keep two rings together. You don’t want your onion rings to be limp.
- In a shallow bowl, combine cornstarch, flour, paprika, garlic powder, salt, and pepper. Stir in water to form a thick paste (resist the temptation to add more water). It will look like a glue. Place the panko crumbs into a second shallow bowl.
- Add an onion ring to the batter and use a spoon to help coat the outside ring. Dip onion ring in the panko crumbs and use a spoon to help coat completely.
- At this point, prepare your potato latkes mixture as per your favorite recipe.
- Heat an inch of oil in a saucepan. When oil is hot, add onion rings and spoon the latke mixture in the middle of the onion and fry for 2-3 minutes, until latke is set. Flip over to other side. Drain on a cooling rack or paper towel. Serve with sweet chili sauce or your favorite dipping sauce.
Looks yum!
I’ve never bought premade onion rings – am I correct that the dipping/battering is only for the raw rings?
Yes!
Oh no! I’m going to have to make this! And eat it!
Did anyone try this with store bought onion rings AND store bought latke batter? Please let us know how it came out! If no one else does I might have to be the first to try it…