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Beer Battered Onion Rings

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Oh My. The goodness that you can get from this:

Combined with this:

These are so good. Here’s what you’ll need:

2 1/2 cups of flour
1 and 2/3 bottles of dark beer (I use Shiner Bock and believe it makes the BEST batter)
3 tablespoons of Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning, plus more for salting onions once cooked
1/2 tablespoon of Cayenne pepper
2-3 large yellow onions, sliced and separated in rings (Vidalia works best)
2 quarts of vegetable oil for frying

I like to slice my onions thick, and typically I pop out the smallish ends and save them for another dish.

Here’s what you’ll do:

Whisk together dry ingredients
Add one beer, and then as much of the second beer as you need to reach the consistency of pancake batter.
Dip onions in batter and cook until golden. Shake off excess oil.
If desired, salt again with more Creole Seasoning. They’re excellent both ways!

Here’s what they’ll look like finished:

Good stuff, right? This will make a plate big enough to serve 6-8 people.

Like any good Southerner, I serve them with ranch dressing, but it doesn’t stop these crazy South Dakotans from eating them with no sauce, or *gasp* (at the horror), KETCHUP!

I’m just kidding, y’all. They’re great no matter how you serve them!

Beer Battered Onion Rings
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These are so good. Here's what you'll need
  1. 2 1/2 cups of flour
  2. 1 and 2/3 bottles of dark beer (I use Shiner Bock and believe it makes the BEST batter)
  3. 3 tablespoons of Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning, plus more for salting onions once cooked
  4. 1/2 tablespoon of Cayenne pepper
  5. 2-3 large yellow onions, sliced and separated in rings (Vidalia works best)
  6. 2 quarts of vegetable oil for frying
  7. I like to slice my onions thick, and typically I pop out the smallish ends and save them for another dish.
Here's what you'll do
  1. Whisk together dry ingredients
  2. Add one beer, and then as much of the second beer as you need to reach the consistency of pancake batter.
  3. Dip onions in batter and cook until golden. Shake off excess oil.
Notes
  1. If desired, salt again with more Creole Seasoning. They're excellent both ways!
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Jenn Zeller is the creative mind and boss lady behind The South Dakota Cowgirl. She is an aspiring horsewoman, photographer, brilliant social media strategist and lover of all things western.

After a brief career in the investment world to support her horse habit (and satisfy her mother, who told her she had to have a “real” job after graduating college), she finally took the leap and stepped away from a regular income; trading the business suit once and for all for cowgirl boots, a hat, and jeans. She has not looked back.

When Jenn first moved to The DX Ranch on the South Dakota plains, she never imagined she’d find herself behind a camera lens capturing an authentic perspective of ranching, and sharing it with others. Jenn has always been called to artistry, and uses music, writing, images, home improvement, and her first true love of horses to express her ranching passion.

Horses are the constant thread and much of her work centers around using her unique style of writing to share her horsemanship journey with others in publications such as CavvySavvy, the AQHA Ranching Blog, the West River Eagle, the family ranch website, and her own website.

Using photography to illustrate her stories has created other opportunities -- Jenn’s brand “The South Dakota Cowgirl” has grown to the level of social media “Influencer”. This notoriety has led to work with Duluth Trading Company, Budweiser, Wyoming Tourism, Vice, Circle Z Ranch and Art of the Cowgirl, to name a few. She also serves as a brand ambassador for Woodchuck USA, Arenus Equine Health, Triple Crown Feed and Just Strong fitness apparel. Her photography has been featured by Instagram, Apple, TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Oprah Magazine. Jenn’s work has been published internationally, has been seen in several books and has graced the covers of several magazines.

Jenn became a social media influencer by accident when she started to explore Instagram as a way to share her life on the ranch with folks that don’t get to experience it. It’s grown into an incredible platform that she uses to empower women, create an environment for self improvement and share life on the ranch.

When she’s not working, she loves to drink coffee, play with her naughty border collie named Copper, start ranch colts, and run about the country chasing cans. Her mother still thinks she doesn’t have a “real” job.

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