This recipe provides instructions for making homemade beer battered onion rings using ale for the batter rather than lighter beer. The key steps are to slice onions and dredge them in flour, then coat in a beer batter made with eggs, flour, baking powder, salt and shortening before deep frying until golden brown. The homemade rings are a quick and easy alternative to buying onion rings.

1. Beer Battered Onion Rings
There’s no need to buy onion rings when homemade rings
are so quick and easy to prepare. Be sure to use ale, rather
than a lighter beer.
Difficulty Level: Average
Cooking Time: 20 min
Servings: 4
Ingredients:
 Vegetable oil
 1 sweet onion (peeled and sliced)
 ½ cup + 2 cups all-purpose flour
 2 eggs
 1 teaspoon celery salt
 3 teaspoons baking powder
 ½ teaspoon salt
 2 tablespoons shortening
 1 cup ale
Cooking Instructions:
 Pour the vegetable oil into a Dutch oven until its 4 inches up the sides of the pan. Heat the
oil to 375 degrees F.
 Pour ½ cup flour into a baking dish and dredge the onion slices in it.
 In a mixing bowl, blend together the eggs and celery salt. Add 2 cups flour, baking powder,
salt, and shortening and stir until blended. Add the ale. Batter should be lumpy.
 Shake the onion slices to remove any excess flour and dredge in the batter.
 Using tongs drop the onion slices into the hot oil and fry for 4 to 6 minutes. Drain on paper
towels.
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