Baked Keto Onion Rings

Here’s a low carb recipe for baked Keto Onion Rings, the perfect burger side. And each serving has just 175 calories and 4g net carbs.

Greetings onion ring enthusiasts.

Boy howdy do I have a good recipe for you today. It's a delicious plate of baked Keto Onion rings, one of America's favorite foods.

Where did Onion Rings come from?

These breaded and fried onion sides come to us from Texas, as it turns out. They were invented in 1921 at the country's first drive-thru restaurant, called the Pig Stand. For the first time ever, folks could drive up, eat and leave, all without leaving their motor cars. When customers pulled into the Pig Stand parking lot, teenagers hot footed over to their cars, hopped up onto the running board and took their orders. Hence the nickname "carbhops".

Are Onion Rings Keto?

Classic Onion Rings, no. Traditional Onion Rings are just rings of onions coated in batter or breading and fried. So good. But these Keto Onion Rings are a close second. And the low carb version has just 4g net carbs.

How do you bread these Keto Onion Rings?

These are pork rind crusted onion rings, so you'll use pork rinds that you've broken up in a blender. You dip the onion rings in heavy whipping cream, dredge them in coconut flour, dip them in an egg and cream mixture, then bread them with crushed pork rinds. This will give the Keto Onion Rings a nice crispy low carb breading that holds on to the onion.

And my low carb onion ring recipe is baked, not fried in oil.

This keeps the fuss and mess down to a minimum. It also means that they only have 175 calories.

But what if you like the fried taste better and want to use an air fryer?

Not a problem. Just make the recipe up to the point where you cook the Keto Onion Rings. Then spray the inside of the air fryer with cooking spray. Place a single layer of the onion rings into the air fryer basket and spray the tops with cooking spray. Cook on 375 degrees F for 10 minutes, flipping each ring halfway through the cooking time. 

And that's all there is to making Keto Onion Rings.

Soon you'll have a low carb batch of onion rings with just 175 calories and 4g net carbs.

So hop to it!

If you liked this low carb appetizer recipe, then you might like my recipes for Keto Buffalo Cauliflower, Keto Queso Cheese Dip or Keto Fried Pickles.