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Tequila Battered Onion Rings with Honey Lime Yogurt Sauce

These onion rings are everything onion rings should be: fried, decadent and super scrumptious (plus there’s booze in them)! A honey lime yogurt sauce lightens these rings up, though, and adds a pop of freshness.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 13 ingredients
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Tequila Battered Onion Rings with Honey Lime Yogurt Sauce

Why it works: Honey and yogurt work together. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity. The science ↓

Tequila Battered Onion Rings with Honey Lime Yogurt Sauce

Serves 4
Prep45 min
Cook25 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1065Calories
40 gProtein
37 gFat
144 gCarbs

Counts 10 of 11 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 10 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Vegetable1 tbsp (14g)120
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Yogurt170g plain Greek100
Honey1 tbsp (21g)64
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Vinegar1 tbsp (15ml) distilled3
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Saucenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Honey + yogurttop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  2. Milk + honeytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,336 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  3. Onion + canola oiltop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Apple cider vinegar + honeytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together169 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

  5. Apple cider vinegar + yogurttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together58 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, apple cider vinegar, canola oil, flour, honey, lime, yogurt):

  1. Sweet potatofits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Shallotfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, apple cider vinegar, canola oil, flour, honey, lime, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.