Bacon Bangles – The Keep At Residence Chef

We’ve taken the basic onion ring and leveled it up for the final word onion ring. Loaded with sausage and wrapped in bacon, these onion rings are the proper appetizer! And don’t overlook our home made Maple Cracked Pepper Dipping Sauce—belief me, this makes the dish! Chef Cayt created this appetizer for meat lovers, naming them “Bacon Bangles” after her youngsters tried to place them on their wrists as little bangle bracelets—they couldn’t hold their palms off them, and neither can we!

For all of the bacon lovers on the market, attempt our Bacon Jam, Spicy Maple Candied Bacon, and Bacon Wrapped Water Chestnuts.

This appetizer is such a crowd pleaser! These meaty onion rings are enjoyable to make and much more enjoyable to eat. Good for recreation day, New 12 months’s Eve, or any enjoyable occasion, this recipe is bound to impress with its inventive twist on a basic. We love this recipe for its dynamic flavors—equal components savory, smoky, and candy. The meat lovers in your life will thanks!

Ingredient Notes

• Giant Yellow Onions: Be certain that your onions are massive since you’re stuffing them with the sausage in between two layers of onion, and the outer onion ring must be large enough to carry all the things collectively.
• Breakfast Sausage: We selected breakfast sausage to pair completely with the candy and smoky flavors.
• Bacon: Skinny-sliced bacon is essential since you want to have the ability to wrap all of it the way in which across the onion ring. A lighter possibility: sub bacon for Prosciutto.
• Maple Syrup: This might be added to the mayo-based dipping sauce. You’ll be able to select any maple syrup from the grocery retailer or stage it up with Chef Cayt’s favourite, Bourbon Maple Syrup.
• Cracked Pepper: You’ll need freshly cracked pepper for the dipping sauce to essentially carry out the spice and stand out among the many mayo and candy, maple syrup.

Onion Should-Is aware of

You need the largest onions you’ll find for onion rings. Yellow onions are preferrable for this, however a white onion can work too.

To chop the onions, place them on their aspect and use the tip of your knife to anchor them, simply to the aspect of the middle. You’ll be utilizing two rings, one bigger and one smaller.

The width of those onion rings must be about 1/2-3/4 inch thick, so chopping simply to the aspect of the middle (after which chopping the identical distance on the opposite aspect) ensures that your onion rings are each thick and large enough to carry a smaller onion inside.

Use the surface ring as the big ring. The smaller ring must be a couple of 1/2 inch smaller, so you might have a 1/2 inch hole for the sausage filling.

Wrapping the Bacon

It’s essential that you simply use normal thin-sliced bacon for this recipe so the bacon is ready to stretch and canopy the floor space of the onion. Absolutely overlaying the onion with bacon provides the onion taste and ensures that it cooks evenly.

Make it possible for your bacon is chilly, proper out of the fridge, so the fats hasn’t softened to the purpose the place it’s slippery and laborious to work with. Chef Cayt additionally cuts the ends off of the bacon so that you simply’re not getting inconsistent, laborious texture.

Serving and Presentation

These meaty onion rings are the proper appetizer however even higher in a burger! As an alternative of including an onion ring and bacon to your burger, add a Bacon Bangle.

One other enjoyable approach to serve these onion rings: stack them on high of one another for a fairly show. You’ll be able to stack vertically making one massive, restaurant-style onion tower, or just layer them on high of one another on a plate or serving platter.

It’s also possible to drizzle our home made sauce on high, or pair with just a few dipping sauce cups.