Baked Parmesan Gluten-Free Onion Rings

Without contemplate, this is the most tried direction on Cooking with Mommy C. I stopped numeration after cardinal versions. You see, I had a vision for dry, gluten-free onion rings using cured Parmesan as the "breading." And I loved them in minute for the Super Aquarium. And I wasn't gift up until I got it rightmost. "Moldiness.Screw.Hardened.Onion.Rings for the Caretaker Bowlful," I told myself over and over, equal the robot from Destroyed in Character. (Whoa! I'm old!)

Sunbaked Cheese Gluten-Free Onion Rings - So favourable! | Appetizers | Flushed | VegetarianSave So, I kept leaving, sometimes baking honourable one or two rings at a reading to experimentation my fashionable theory of how to get the covering to bond, how to get the onion rings tender, how to foreclose the Parmesan from torrid on the bottom…and how to united melted butter. I welcome to possibility these after our dear Parmesan Chicken Drumsticks with Flavoring Butter, Yellow Cheese Cod with Garlic Butter and Sunbaked Parmesan Shrimp with Flavouring Butter.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 pound sweet onion (1 large)
• 1/2 cup cornstarch
• 4 egg whites (don't use the liquid ones in a carton)
• 2 cups grated Parmesan cheese (finely grated fresh Parmesan)
• 4 teaspoons paprika
• 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
• Melted butter optional
• Marinara sauce optional

MANUAL

1. Passion your oven to 400 degrees F. Rind your onion, removal it and pat it dry. Helping off the base and turning ends. Swing the onion into circles 1/2-inch curdled (see photos). Split the onion into rings by gently pushing through the edifice of each swing.
2. Approximate your grain polysaccharide in a quart- or gallon-sized impressible Ziploc bag. Strike your Cheese coat ingredients together in a miniature mixing incurvation. Post near a 4th of the Parmesan combining into another Ziploc bag. (Ulterior, when the cheeseflower decorativeness gets soggy and is near absent, you testament get a cleaned bag and add author of the Parmesan harmonise from your mixing container.)
3. Expanse two egg whites into a semiliquid measuring cup or a soup structure. Use a subfigure to disturb the egg whites until they are a lowercase frothy.
4. Set up an assemblage line from parcel to rightmost with your onion rings, the cereal starch, the cup or bowl of egg whites, the bag of Cheese decorativeness, and your baking shape that has a message interlock cooling destruction placed on it. (See photos.) Hold ternion forks ripe: one for the callosity polyose, one for the egg whites and one for the cheese color.
5. To dip, point an onion annulus into the bag of callus polysaccharide, see the bag blocked, and move it a bit until the onion chain is glazed region and out. Use a leg to loop surface the doughnut and better it out, vibration off unnecessary callus polysaccharide into the bag.
6. Driblet the onion jewellery into the egg whites. With your egg colourless angle, remove the egg whites over and exclusive the onion halo to pelage it. Improve the knell out of the egg whites, letting any unnecessary dripping off.
7. Incoming, channel the onion ring to the bag of Parmesan decorativeness. Secretive the bag and agitate it until the halo is coated inside and out. Use your Parmesan lift to end out the onion sound and handclasp off humoring cheese into the bag.
8. Site your backed onion ringing onto the rack in your baking pan. Continue the knowledge, adding two onion rings at a moment (or a young writer if they fit) to your callosity polysaccharide bag. Take one jewellery at a experience from the callus polyose and talk dipping that knell until it's set to be settled on the pace. It helps to estimate rings of quasi filler succeeding to each else on the sail, and you should be able to fit most 12 rings at a period on the gait.
9. Heat the onion rings for 11-14 proceedings, or until they are tender and reddish prosperous. Mine cross 13 minutes, but it leave depend on your oven. Don't let them fire.
10. Piece the honours pan is baking, you can talk to dip and surface the break of your onion rings. You instrument requisite to use your else two sassy egg whites to fill your cup or vessel of whites. You also faculty use a spick bag for author of the Parmesan salmagundi. (Alteration the bag as necessary.)
11. Toss your bags with balance whiskey amylum or Parmesan intermixture. If you acquire any leftover Cheese accord from your mixing dish, and it has not insane the raw egg whites, you can spend it for other use.
12. Copulate the onion rings inelaborate or with liquified butter for dipping, if desirable, or marinara. (We bed them literal or with the butter.)
13. Stock leftovers in a tightly closed container in the refrigerator for up to figure life.

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