Oven Baked Onion Rings – Baked, not fried! Serve them up with a spicy dipping sauce for the perfect party appetizer or game day snack!

My first-favorite side option for a hamburger is french fries, hands down. I just love them soooo much! Slathered in fry sauce ideally. (If you don’t know what fry sauce is, you are really missing out and need to visit Utah. No, it is not ketchup. Ketchup is ketchup. Fry sauce is fry sauce)

Ha, speaking of fry sauce… when my husband I were first married we traveled for about six weeks for his work. We stayed in Chicago Illinois, Dallas Texas, and Washington D.C. and I embarrassed my brand-new husband by asking for fry sauce in every single state. They had no idea what I was talking about. How do you people live without fry sauce???? Seriously.

So, french fries are my first-favorite hamburger-side dish (or really my favorite side dish for any dish, ever) but, onion rings are probably second or third on the list. If they are made right. If they are crunchy and seasoned properly (meaning, seasoned at all because sometimes they just have breadcrumbs and no seasoning which is not acceptable) and they must have a rockin dipping sauce. Ketchup will not do. I must have something more.

Thus far, I have never fried in my house. Crazy right? I just don’t fry. But sometimes a girl’s gotta have onion rings. Especially around football time. The oven is often very underestimated in its ability to do more than produce a batch of cookies or a cheesy breakfast casserole. Ovens can also deliver the most delicious, crispy baked-not-fried onion rings. These ones are perfect! Just enough crunch, but there’s still onion in there you know? I’ve ordered onion rings a few times that came so deep-fried that there was only the empty shell left, the onion had disintegrated. True story. But these crispy Oven Baked Onion Rings come out with a crunchy outside and a juicy onion inside. So good! And the dipping sauce? Heaven. So simple yet so amazing! These Oven Baked Onion Rings are game day approved so plan on making a batch pronto!

What people are saying about these Oven Baked Onion Rings

“Made Them, Loved Them, Ate Them ALL! And they’re baked, can’t get better than that!” – Ana

“These were great!!! I’m not sure if you changed the instructions by now or not, but I wasn’t confused at all. I made them gluten and dairy free and they were amazing!!! I think I’ll omit the cayenne next time though lol, not because I didn’t like it, but my little siblings are weird with “spicy” things. I’ll make this again though for sure, they were WAY better than the fried onion rings I’ve tried to make” – Jen

“Made these tonight. Used panko instead of regular bread crumbs. Oh.My.Goodness.These.Are.So.Yummy. They were gone in minutes. Thanks ” – Kitten

“Great recipe and I love the Thousand Island dressing recipe you included. This is also good with fried green tomatoes. They could be made according to this recipe too. Thanks!” – Fortuna