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- [Narrator] Welcome to BBQPitBoys.com.
Today we're cooking up some bacon onion rings on the grill,
and of course it's easy to do.
All right, here I have some regular cut pork belly bacon.
You know all about that, man.
You want to get a good quality bacon for this recipe.
All right, first thing you want to do here
is we're gonna cut up some rings, all right?
Onion rings, and you might know how to do this,
but if you don't, this is how you do it.
You just skin the outside of that onion,
and what you want to do is cut, oh,
half-inch to one-inch slices.
Either or, works really well in this recipe.
Just give it, cut off the ends on the onion.
And cut off the outer ring.
And it's ready for slicing.
You know how to do that.
(chuckles) All right.
Now, if you've never had these bacon onion rings before,
you've definitely gotta check this out.
This is some real good eatin' at the pit.
You're gonna want to make a bunch of 'em.
All right.
We've sliced our onions here, and now we're making rings,
and they're easy to do.
You just push a little bit on the inside and push out
and you've got yourself a bunch of rings.
Simple enough.
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Now, this is what it's all about.
It's a technique here more than a recipe, all right,
and let me show ya how to wrap these rings.
You start from underneath and you get your first wrap
and then you drop the slice down through the center
like that, and you just keep wrapping.
You can tug on the bacon a little bit to tighten it up.
You'll get it.
Just do a little practice, all right?
Plan on using about two slices per ring
and no matter how big the ring is,
generally two slices of bacon will do.
On a large ring, you might need three slices of bacon,
but you'll know, all right.
Make sure you cover the entire onion if possible.
See that?
Real simple.
There's a ring.
Now, let's do one real close up.
I got the time if you've got the time.
This is again how it's done.
You want to keep your bacon slice flat against the ring.
You just keep twisting.
Oh baby.
It looks good enough to eat already.
(laughs) Oh yeah.
Now like I said,
it takes about two slices of bacon per ring.
Be generous.
Again, you'll start from underneath,
and then you flip over the top.
Just like that.
Whoa.
And through the miracle of time,
we've done a bunch of these rings.
And now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna put 'em on the grill.
We're gonna cook 'em fairly slow,
about 275 to 300 degrees fahrenheit,
indirect, opposite the coals.
You know all about that, right?
It's gonna take about an hour and a half to do,
maybe two hours, and this'll give it plenty of time
for this bacon to constrict around this onion. (inhales)
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All right, we'll put the cover on.
Nothing to do now but just kick back and wait.
Now, about an hour has gone by
and what we're gonna do is flip these rings.
Oh man, they're looking good.
Let's give 'em a flip.
We'll get some even cooking going on.
I'm using a wooden skewer here
because they're real delicate, so use a skewer like this.
It works real good.
Yeah, can you smell that?
It smells good! (laughs)
Well maybe another half hour, 45 minutes to go.
All right.
Take a look at that.
Oh man.
We're gonna pull 'em off the grill now,
and we want them to cool a bit so they stiffen up,
because we're not finished with these bacon onion rings yet.
Now the hardest part about this recipe
is giving 'em time to cool.
Lord have mercy.
I do believe we've got a baker's dozen here.
(laughs) Oh yeah.
We'll probably give them a half hour
to 45 minutes to cool, because what we're gonna do now
is we're gonna make a batter.
You bet.
These here are gonna be fried bacon onion rings,
although like I said, you can eat those rings
just the way they are, but nah,
you want to take them to the next step.
Here I'm just gonna make a simple batter.
I just poured in a couple scoops of semolina flour
and a couple scoops of all-purpose flour,
but you make the batter the way you like.
Just use a simple batter,
and ours is gonna be a beer batter.
Mm.
Of course you want to season your flour.
Here I've got a little bit of salt
and a little bit of garlic powder in there.
Like I said, use your favorite batter.
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Because this is a beer batter,
we're just gonna pour in some beer.
Use a good beer, all right?
Now with the amount of flour I was using,
it's probably gonna take a couple bottles of beer to do it,
but you get the consistency the way you want it,
but for these bacon onion rings,
we like the batter fairly thick.
Yep, just dip it in there.
Shake off the excess.
And drop it in some oil.
We're using some corn oil here.
We've got the temp about 380 degrees fahrenheit.
Spin it a little bit with this wooden skewer.
You probably know all about frying, right?
But let me show you a little bit how we do it.
It only takes a few minutes to get 'em golden brown.
Oh baby.
Yeah.
Flip 'em over a little bit.
Spin the ones like that.
Spins them around and gives them a little bit of shape.
All right, that one needs to come out.
It's done.
All right, those bacon onion rings are done.
They're gonna be nice and crisp.
With that bacon and onion inside, it'll be real tender.
Mm.
And let me warn you again,
you need to make a bunch of these.
I'll show you one more time.
I kind of like doing this.
Dip that ring in the batter and drop it in that oil.
We're talking tailgating food right here.
You could be doing this during halftime.
Make some rings just before you serve some steak.
You do it the way you want.
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