Menu Prices AUBattered Onion Rings, Hungry Jack’s Style
Hungry Jack's copycat · ⏱ 35 mins · Difficulty: Medium · Serves 4 · By Sophie Bernard
Thick-cut onion rings in a seasoned 3:1 flour-to-cornstarch batter, double-fried until golden. The real Battered Onion Rings are ≈ $5.20 at Hungry Jack’s (menu-page guide price — the ordering app never rendered, so no pickup store could be set, so kJ is marked ≈). Copycat method adapted from the Hungry Jack’s onion rings guide (spice.alibaba.com, Jan 2026).
The Original
Battered Onion Rings
Price: ≈ $5.20 (pickup)
Energy: ≈ 1,390 kJ (332 cal)
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Ingredients
Home-kitchen amounts for 4 — standard home-cooking quantities for this dish, not the chain’s recipe (chains do not publish theirs). Difficulty: Medium.
- 2 large sweet onions (Vidalia or Spanish)
- 1 cup (150 g) plain flour
- ½ cup (75 g) cornflour
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- ½ tsp fine salt
- 1 cup (250 ml) cold water or cold beer
- 1 egg
- Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
Method
- Cut the onions into rings about 1 cm thick and separate them. Keep the big outer rings; save the small centres for another dish.
- Whisk the flour, cornflour, paprika, garlic powder and salt with the egg and cold water into a thick batter. Chill 30 minutes — cold batter sticks better.
- Heat the oil to 175°C. Dip each ring in the batter, let the excess drip off, and fry in small batches.
- First fry 2 minutes until set, rest 1 minute, then fry again 1–2 minutes until deep golden and crisp. Drain on a rack.
- Salt lightly and serve at once. Tip: the double fry is the Hungry Jack’s trick — the first fry sets the batter, the second makes it shatter — and the batter must be cold, or it slides off the onion.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How close is this to the real Battered Onion Rings?
This is a home-kitchen copycat, not the chain’s recipe — the chain does not publish its recipe. It is built to sit beside the original: the real Battered Onion Rings is ≈ $5.20 for pickup with ≈ 1,390 kJ (332 cal). Compare the two before you cook — the home version trades the chain’s equipment for a frypan and an oven.
How long does it take, and how hard is it?
About 35 minutes, rated Medium difficulty, serving 4.
What do I need to make it?
The ingredients are listed below — starting with 2 large sweet onions (Vidalia or Spanish), 1 cup (150 g) plain flour, ½ cup (75 g) cornflour, and 6 more. Quantities are home-kitchen amounts, written to serve 4.
What does the original cost at Hungry Jack's?
The real Battered Onion Rings is ≈ $5.20 (pickup), ≈ 1,390 kJ. Prices vary by location and delivery is higher.
Where can I check the original dish?
On its own dish page — open the Battered Onion Rings at Hungry Jack's page for the price, kJ and calories.
Is this recipe the chain’s official recipe?
No — no Top 10 chain publishes its recipes. Every recipe on this site is a copycat written from the dish’s published description and the home-kitchen method below, and the comparison box shows the real dish’s price and kJ so you can judge it yourself.
Written & checked by Sophie Bernard
Sophie reads every menu directly from each chain’s official Australian ordering site and records the store and price basis on the page. No price is published without a source.