From time to time I’d like to share some of my all-time favorite recipes with a couple of caveats:

1.     I’m no chef – I’m NOT a great cook, but I love great food.  Therefore, I only prepare recipes that are easy and taste great.

2.     I’m NOT on the Cleanse all the time. Therefore, I eat low fat and mostly vegetarian, but these recipes are NOT from the Cleanse. For those, you need to download my Cleanse Guide.

Okay, so the other day I saw Rocco Di Spirito on Rachel Ray, and I paused (only because he’s cute – Rachel Ray annoys me for some reason.)  He was promoting his new book on healthy comfort food recipes and made onion rings on her show. They looked awesome, and I remembered that I have an easier recipe for low-fat onion rings that ROCKS, so I’m sharing it with you.

Ingredients

2 large onions, sliced ¼ inch thick, rounds separated

1 cup buttermilk

Nonstick cooking spray

½ cup all purpose flour

1 teaspoon paprika

½ teaspoon salt

4 egg whites, beaten

1 ½ cups cornflake crumbs (you can find them in the baking aisle)

Directions

Mix onion rings with buttermilk in a large, shallow bowl. Set aside for 20 minutes.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Spray a baking sheet (you might need more than 1) with cooking spray.

Combine flour, paprika, and salt in a shallow small bowl.

Put egg whites in a second shallow bowl and cornflake crumbs in a third.

Dip each onion ring in the flour, egg, and cornflake crumbs.

Place each onion ring on the baking sheet.

Spritz onion rings with cooking spray before baking.

Bake15 minutes until brown.