Funion Rings

What do you do when someone gives you an onion the size of your head? We’re talking 3.6 kilos of pure onion, that’s 8 pounds if you don’t do euro. It’s a lot of onion. And about the only thing you can make with a lot of onion is… onion soup, right? Wrong! You can pimp the biggest onion rings you’ve seen this side of Texas.

The giant onion came from a friend of a friend who has an allotment. Long story. Not the sort of thing you’ll find in Sainsburys, in fact you’ll have to trawl a fair few agricultural shows if you ever want to try this recipe.

You’ll need: 1 giant onion, 2 eggs, 1.5 cups of flour, 1 cup of milk, a teaspoon of salt and a lot of vegetable oil.

Table salt, flour, milk and an egg beside an onion bigger than the milk bottle

Start by mixing the eggs, flour, milk and salt until it forms a batter. If your courage fails you, you can make pancakes with this mix 🙂

Batter being whisked in a bowl from flour, milk and two egg yolks

Now peel the onion. You will need a very large knife and a box of tissues. Big onion, big bloody smelly onion. We had to keep it in the shed after we got it. And the outside bits got a bit gooey, eeeugh. Nevertheless, we soldiered on.

Hands stripping the dry papery outer skin off the giant onion with a knife

The onion peeled down to shiny white flesh, held in both hands with a knife alongside

Cutting an oversized onion is actually quite tricky. Not much to grip on. We recommend a very large, very sharp knife. Et voila! It’s onion, it’s a ring! Now for the deep frying…

One huge onion ring held up beside the halved onion and a normal-sized onion