Healthy Onion Ring Recipe

This is the best onion ring recipe if you love onion rings but want to eat healthy.

Grilled Onion Rings

Prep:  15 minutes     Yield:  4 to 8 servings

Grilled onions are unusually sweet, slightly smoky, and versatile.  Serve them in salads, over burgers, salmon fillets, lamb chops, or stuffed in omelets.  Leftovers are great served over or under poached or fried eggs for breakfast, with a side of leftover cooked kale, collards, broccoli, or Brussels sprouts or over a green salad with leftover meat in a pack lunch!  If you don’t have a covered grill or porch (for winter grilling), cook the onions in a grill pan or George Foreman-type grill indoors. If you are looking for a recipe for onions, these grilled onion rings are not only healthy but delicious.

Basic ingredients:
4  medium-large red onions
Olive oil, to coat
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper, to mre if desired
1 tablespoon coarsely ground rosemary, sage, thyme, dried parsley or your favorite blend, to taste
1/2 to 1 teaspoon finely ground sun-dried, mineral rich sea salt (Celtic®, Real Salt®, or Malden Salt®) (optional)

1.    Cut ends off of onion, then peel back and remove skin.  Slice onions into rounds, about 1/3-inch thick.  (Thin slices are apt to stick, burn, or fall through grill grates.)
2.    Brush both sides of onion slices with olive oil and dust with herbs, spices, and sea salt if desired.  Place on grill grates and cook approximately 6 minutes per side, or until onions darken around edges and rings start to separate.
3.    Remove from grill and serve warm, or refrigerate in a Pyrex bowl with a lid and serve cold or at room temperature in a salad on omelet. Use within 3 to 4 days for optimal freshness, flavor, and nutrition.

Variations:

*    Onion Rings in a Grill Pan:  Lightly brush grill pan with olive oil; warm on moderate heat and until piping hot.  Cut onion rings 1/4-inch thick.  Lightly brush with oil and dust with herbs and spices as desired. Cook for approximately 4 to 5 minutes per side, until slightly charred, soft, and rings start to separate.  Hope you enjoy this grilled onions recipe!

Thanks to my friend Chef Rachel for this awesome recipe.

Source of recipe: The Garden of Eating: A Produce Dominated Diet & Cookbook by Rachel Albert Matesz & Don Matesz (Planetary Press, 2004)

Available on this site: http://www.thegardenofeatingdiet.com/

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