-- CRISPY CRUNCHY ONION RINGS --
Recipe adapted from 'Orville Redenbacher's Popcorn Cookbook'

Ingredients:

1 extra-large sweet onion (Vandalia Onions taste the best)

2 ½ cups of Aunt Em's Tender White Popcorn (finely crushed)

¾ cup of all-purpose flour

½ teaspoon of baking powder

¼ teaspoon of garlic powder

¼ teaspoon of paprika

1-cup buttermilk

Salt to taste

Vegetable oil for frying

Directions:

* Pour 1 ½" of vegetable oil into a 4-quart saucepan and heat to 350° F (if the oil starts smoking, you need to turn down the heat).

* Cut onion into thick slices and separate into rings.

* Mix together remaining ingredients except buttermilk in a medium-mixing bowl.

* Pour buttermilk into a wide rim flat bottom bowl.

* Dip onions, one at a time, into the flour mixture, then into the buttermilk, and finally back into the flour mixture.

* Fry onions a few at a time until golden brown (if you put to many into the pan at one time, they will stick together and not cook evenly).

* Serve warm either straight up or with the condiment of your desire.

Additional popcorn side dishes and Appetizers

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