Baked onion rings.

116 kcal for half or 77 kcal for 1/3

Recipe found here

 

Recipe:

3/4 cup crushed corn flakes cereal

1 teaspoon granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon garlic

1 large sweet onion, peeled, cut into 1/2 inch thick slices

2-3 egg whites

 

Mix together the cereal, sugar, paprika, garlic powder, and seasoned salt.

Separate onion slices into rings.

Beat egg until foamy in a small bowl.

Dip onion rings into first the egg, then coat with seasonings

(you may need another egg or a little extra seasoning mixture if your onions are particularly large).

Set on greased baking sheets in one layer.

Bake in a preheated oven at 190ºC for about 15-20 minutes

or until coating is crispy and onions are tender.

 

Cookbook:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Real life:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I ended up with two times this (my dad ate the other half).

Obviously they don't look like the picture

(mostly because onion rings are rarely perfect thin circles like on the picture

and because it would've taken hours to get the cereal completely ground

without the proper tools, so I ended up half-assing that part,

as I'm sure most people would).

Still, they don't look too bad.

 

BUT... As you can see, I ended up with about 10 onion rings in total.

So that's 116 kcal for FIVE onion rings.

Sure, it's probably less than five deep-fried onion rings, but think about this:

One of these:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is 95 kcal, about 20 kcal LESS than those 5 measly onion rings.

 

And according to the recipe, one serving is one THIRD of those ten rings,

so about three onion rings.

 

 

So, my opinion on this:

 

Difficulty:

★ ★ ★

Mostly because you have to get the cereal properly ground and the eggs beaten,

both of which are difficult without the proper tools.

 

Taste:

★ ★ ★

My dad liked these, but I wasn't a big fan myself.

 

Serving size:

★ ★

There just isn't enough food to make those 116 calories acceptable.

 

Conclusion: I'm sure there is someone, somewhere who spend two hours

on these and made them absolutely perfect and who is

fine with the serving size since they don't eat all that much to begin with

and they're full easily, but that person is (obviously) not me.