Spiced Fried Onion Rings

Name: Spiced Fried Onion Rings
Yield: Serves 4 as a snack
Ingredients: Black Pepper Crème Fraîche to serve; onions 1 red and 1 white, each sliced horizontally into 1cm/½in thick rings; groundnut oil for deep-frying; white peppercorns 1 tsp; black peppercorns 1 tsp; sea salt flakes 1 tsp, plus extra for sprinkling; Sichuan pepper 1 tsp; self-raising flour 125 g/4½ oz, plus extra for dusting; water 300 ml/½ pint; cumin seeds 2 tsp

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a snack

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pepper

By Christine McFadden

Published 2008

About

These are extremely addictive – thickly sliced red and white onions dipped in a tongue-tingling peppery batter and fried until golden and crisp.

Ingredients

cumin seeds 2 tsp
black peppercorns 1 tsp
white peppercorns

Snack
Vegetarian
Spicy

Method

Grind the cumin, peppercorns and sea salt together using a mortar and pestle, until you have a coarse powder.

Pour the water into a shallow dish. Gradually add the flour, shaking it through a sieve and beating with a fork. Stir in the ground spices and salt mixture.

Separate the onion slices into rings. Spread them out on a tray and lightly dust with flour, shaking off any exces