Unbelievable Onion Rings

My husband was looking for some hearty, all American food. We haven't had onion rings in the longest time, so I was up for the challenge.

Menu: Italian Sausage with Onions and Peppers, Unbelievable Onion Rings (pg. 249) and Grilled Broccoli Salad (pg. 250).

The Italian sausage always goes over well. I buy the hot for my husband and I and the mild for the kids. Everyone eats it, although the girls will not touch the onions nor the peppers.

The broccoli salad has a very strong flavor (it has sesame oil in it) but it was good. Really good. Kids were not huge fans so next time I will just set some plain broccoli aside for them, but we will have this again.

The onion rings came out amazingly well. I changed a number of things in the recipe so I was worried, but wow. Definitely on for a repeat. I will post the original and my changes.

Unbelievable Onion Rings

3 medium vidalia onions (I bought 2, but after slicing one, left it at that. It made a ton of rings and my kids don't eat onions)
1 c. Atkins bake mix - I don't have any clue where to find this, so what I did was combine 1/2 c. almond meal and 1/2 c. soy flour
2 Tbsp Atkins cornbread mix - again, can't be found. I used cornmeal. I am not that worried about 2 tablespoons of cornmeal within an entire recipe.
1/4 c. oat flour
1 tsp seasoned salt
2 eggs
12 oz light beer. I use Budweiser Select 55 which is pretty much the lowest carb beer out there. Not the greatest for drinking but not too bad and works well for this.
Salt

Preheat deep fryer to 375. I almost never fry food, so we don't have one. I heat oil in a deep pan and throw a candy thermometer in it. Unfortunately, it makes it really hard to keep a steady temperature, so if you have access to a fryer, by all means, use it.

In bowl mix the baking mixes, or their substitutes, the oat flour, and the seasoned salt. Basically, all the dry ingredients.

Add the eggs and the beer, and whisk well.

When the oil is up to temp, dip the onions in the batter and let them fry. I recommend not doing too many at once because it doesn't take much more than a servings worth to make the oil temp start dropping fast.

Fry until golden. Pull them out and let them drain on paper towels. Salt. Enjoy.