I have been seeing a cool recipe floating around for Cheeseburger Onion Ring Bites and thought they sounded good. I decided I was going to do it my way with bacon, pepperoncinis and garlic. I mixed all of that with the pickles and ground beef.

I sliced an onion into 1 inch rings and soaked them in buttermilk until I was ready to fill them. I filled them about half way with the beef mixture and placed in chunks of habanero cheese.

They were then topped and filled with the beef mixture.

Time to bread these monsters. I seasoned both sides with a little S&P then I used flour that I seasoned with just some salt and pepper, an egg wash with eggs and buttermilk, salt and pepper and seasoned breadcrumbs since I did not have any panko.

I pan fried these in a little vegetable oil heated over medium…