Onion Ring Chips

Name: Onion Ring Chips
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 2 unit medium yellow or sweet onions; 6 oz finely shredded Parmesan cheese; 1 tbsp olive oil; ½ tsp garlic powder; ½ tsp paprika; ¼ tsp black pepper

Vegetables & Salads · American

6 ingredients · 35 minutes · 2 servings

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489kcal34.5g protein31.6g fat18.1g carbs~$2.53/ serving*

Contains dairy

Restrictions

ContainsdairyIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.

Diets

VegetarianPescatarianNo porkNo alcohol

Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.

Ingredients

Servings:

2 unit	medium yellow or sweet onions
6 oz	finely shredded Parmesan cheese
1 tbsp	olive oil
½ tsp	garlic powder
½ tsp	paprika
¼ tsp	black pepper

Steps

Slice6 min
onion rounds uniformly about 1/8 inch thick
Slice the onions into very thin even rounds, ideally with a mandoline, and separate only loose rings. Uneven slices shed moisture at different rates and leave some pieces soft before others brown.
Assemble3 min
Parmesan forms a thin even sheet with minimal gaps
On a parchment-lined sheet pan, spread the Parmesan into a restrained single layer roughly matching the area the onions will cover. Thick piles melt oily before they can form a crisp lace.
Assemble3 min
onion rounds lie flat in one non-overlapping layer
- paprika
- black pepper
Arrange the onion slices over the Parmesan without overlapping, then brush or drizzle very lightly with olive oil and season with garlic, paprika and pepper. Too much oil slows dehydration.
Bake20 min
cheese deeply golden and onion edges browned
- finely shredded Parmesan cheese
Bake at 400°F until the Parmesan is deeply golden and the onion moisture has visibly cooked away. Judge by browning rather than the clock because cheese moisture and slice thickness vary.
Cool7 min
cheese sheet firm and crisp enough to lift
Leave the pan undisturbed after baking. The cheese matrix crisps dramatically as it cools; handling it hot bends or tears chips that would otherwise set cleanly.
Cut2 min
crisp Parmesan-onion pieces separate cleanly
Break or cut the cooled sheet into chip-sized pieces. The crispness comes primarily from browned Parmesan surrounding a dehydrated onion slice, not from pretending the onion itself becomes a potato chip.