If french fries and onion rings ever got together and had a love child, I think it would be something like this…a light and crispy on the outside + creamy and luscious on the inside potato ring! Two things I can’t stress enough is: 1) the importance of having the potatoes completely coated; no holes please, or the mashed potatoes will pour out of the holes once they hit the oil and you’ll be left with nothing but a mess. 2) the importance of the rings being frozen solid before entering the oil…it just helps with the frying, that’s all.
We made a simple and delicious buttermilk ranch dipping sauce bc let’s face it, ranch is pretty much good with anything, amirite? It only seemed natural to pair these savory, fried treats with a quick and easy homemade ranch sauce. Enjoy!
xx Jenny
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Potato Rings with Homemade Buttermilk Ranch Dipping Sauce
INGREDIENTS
- 3 large russet potatoes, cleaned peeled and chopped into large pieces
- ⅓ cup plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- ¼ cup unsalted butter (½ stick), softened
- ½ cup caramelized yellow onions, chopped
- 3 tablespoons chives, thinly sliced
- ⅔ cup all purpose flour
- ⅓ cup rice flour
- 2 tablespoons garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 2 eggs, lightly beaten
- salt and pepper to taste
- 2 quarts vegetable oil
buttermilk ranch sauce
- ½ cup light mayonnaise
- ¼ cup low-fat buttermilk
- 1 ½ teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons flat leaf parsley, minced
- 1 tablespoon chives, thinly sliced
- 1 teaspoon dill, minced
- ½ teaspoon dry mustard
- salt and pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place the potatoes in a large pot and fill with water.
- Bring to a boil on medium-high heat and cook until the potatoes are fork-tender, 20-25 minutes.
- Drain the potatoes into a colander and pour back into the pot.
- Pour the cream and butter over the potatoes and mash with a potato masher until smooth (Add more cream 1 tablespoon at a time, if needed).
- Fold in the caramelized onions and chives until fully incorporated. Season with salt and pepper and stir.
- Spread the mixture onto a sheet pan, about ½ inch thick and place in the refrigerator until the mixture has cooled down and hardened, 4-6 hours.
- While the potato mixture cools place both flours, garlic powder, onion powder and smoked paprika into a shallow dish and stir together until fully combined. Set aside.
- When the potato mixture has cooled, remove from the refrigerator and using 1-1 ½ inch circle cutters, cut out as many circles as possible (usually makes about 32-40).
- Using a ½ inch circle cutter, cut out a ½ inch circle from every 1-1½ circle, creating a small donut shape.
- Dip the potato rings into the flour mixture followed by the egg mixture and finally again in the flour mixture (make sure the rings are completely coated).
- Place the coated rings onto a clean sheet pan, lined with parchment paper and place in the freezer and allow the rings to freeze completely, 4-6 hours.
- Once the potato rings are frozen, preheat the oil, in a large pot, to 375°F.
- While the oil heats up, place the ingredients for the dipping sauce into a mixing bowl and whisk together. Season with salt and pepper.
- When the oil is hot, carefully drop a few of the rings into the oil and fry for 4-6 minutes or until golden brown.
- Drain onto a large plate lined with paper towels and season with salt with pepper.
- Repeat with the remaining potato rings and serve immediately with the dipping sauce.
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um hello! why hasn’t anyone thought of this before??? amazing!!!
Look like these could be a perfect World Series snack as we watch the Cardinals! Since I love spice I think I might make a chipotle ranch dipping sauce and maybe add some cheddar to the mashed potatoes. Thanks!
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Hi – greetings from England – I’ve just returned from Marrakech and had something very similar to this out there – delicious! The pototoes were ball shaped and the menu described them as Dauphinoise Potatoes – I prefer this deep fried version and will definitely try your recipe.
These look wicked. Wicked good.
Oh YUM! I will have to give these a go, can I also say – your photography is amazing, I wish I could get my photo’s to look like that… Just sensational.
Oh YUM! I will have to give these a go, can I also say – your photography is amazing, I wish I could get my photo’s to look like that… Just sensational.
Hi! I just shared this recipe and photos with my readers! I am sure they will love it!
I love your blog! Beautiful graphic and fantastic photos.
I love your potato rings. Awesome!
I am absolutely dying over this recipe. I am from the south, so I love any kind of potato. I will have to try this for sure. And the food styling is gorgeous! I will have to feature this on my blog for sure!
Do french fries and onion rings HAVE to get married to have a baby? couldn’t they have a slutty one night stand love child?
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love this comment! Slutty potato rings sound delish
These are brilliant! ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
I live out in the middle of nowhere-land where the stores don’t carry such exotic things as rice flour. Can I substitute more all purpose flour?
Hi Val! Yes, you can definitely sub the AP flour for the rice flour and get great results!
what about tapioca flour? or cornstach instead of the rice flour??
I want those now! No like really, I dont really ever eat junk food but I LOVE fries and I LOVE Ranch dressing. Though I would never have ranch on a salad. Only on some sort of crispy yummy blackened chicken sandwich, potato skins and french fries dipped into its creamy goodness. I think this is the ultimate hung over food and I will try them one day when I am feeling super naughty :) xx
Quick question. I noticed that there wasn’t a measurement specified for the flour. 2/3 all purpose flour 1/3 rice flour. These look delicious, but I try to follow recipes because I’m not a natural in the kitchen. I’d love the specifics for the flour if you will.
Thanks!
The measurement is for “cups”…it’s all fixed now! Thanks for catching that!
i am officially in love with this food blog! thank you for existing. :)
Delicious! Have you ever experimented with a sweet potato version?
Hi Katherine! I haven’t experimented with sweet potatoes yet, but that sounds like the best idea ever! The closest thing I’ve done with sweet potatoes is this…
http://jennyparkfoodstyle.com/#/Recipe%20Development/Recipe%20Development/2/
I’ll definitely have to try making sweet potato rings, yum!
Great idea! Good way to use left over mashed potatoes. A deep fried fest sounds like my kind of party! A friend just told me about a fried hamburger. No not just the meat ..the entire burger with bun, lettuce, tomato & thousand island dressing.
NOT healthy – but oh so good-looking. Love the intro about vegetables getting it together!
That’s totally rad. I’m just questioning how many of these I’d actually eat. My guess? Too many. And that sauce? Crazy delicious looking.
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What a great idea! Love your food styling! Cheers from Germany, Susanne
OMG!!!! This is really really genius and weird. I dig it. And I want to bathe in that buttermilk ranch dressing. UGH!
Very fun! These look great.
Crazy! This looks awesome! Bonus points for creativity. This will be certainly going on my list of things to make whilst watching football, or baseball, or Modern Family – well let’s be honest, I’m sure these things will be good regardless of what you’re watching. But I have to ask, what about bacon? Lil pieces chopped up inside… could be good – just saying…
Mmmmm bacon
sorry do not know how to post in this but try this step by step did not work!!!
Can I ask you which part was the issue for you? Perhaps we can problem solve together! I love this recipe and want you to as well! :)