These crispy little Os combine the best qualities of mashed potatoes, french fries, onion rings, and homemade potato chips. In other words, all the good things you can't share with your cardiologist. We've found our weekend project!
The recipe comes from the creative and beautifully photographed (and new to us) blog spoonforkbacon. It involves a bit of work, yes, but you get fried potato rings out of it.
Essentially you make mashed potatoes—with caramelized onions in them, yum—then spread them out and refrigerate until they're firm enough to cut into doughnut shapes. Once they're cut and coated in the batter, you freeze them. The rings are frozen solid when you drop them into the hot oil, which helps them keep their shape.
• Get the recipe: Potato Rings with Homemade Buttermilk Ranch, at spoonforkbacon.
The ranch dipping sauce looks like a great recipe to have on its own for chips, vegetables, burgers... all kinds of goodies.
Related: 10 Ways to Eat a Potato (and Just a Potato) for Dinner
(Image: Teri Lyn Fisher, used with permission)
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Similar to pommes dauphine. Not sure which would be more work though. For pommes dauphine you basically mix choux (cream puff) pastry with mashed potatoes and drop or pipe it into oil to fry. The result is crunchy puffs with creamy potato insides.
LORD HAVE MERCY!
Cool! This recipe reminds me of a traditional South Indian snack my mom makes called "vada." </a href> The base for vada is usually lentil flour, though, as opposed to potato.
happycamper2168...that's what I was thinking!
/sweet jeebus!!!!!!!!!!!!
//falls out of chair
Yep, this is the thing that can entice me to waste that much cooking oil. I normally bypass fried recipe for that reason alone. This will be worth it. Lord.