French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. French Onion Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Stay warm with this GREAT French onion soup! With beef stock base, slow-cooked caramelized onions, French bread, gruyere and Parmesan cheese. French onion soup (French: soupe à l'oignon [sup a lɔɲɔ̃]) is a type of soup usually based on meat stock and onions, and often served gratinéed with croutons or a larger piece of bread covered with.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
  1. Prepare The Stock
  2. Prepare 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
  3. Make ready 2 onions, halved
  4. Make ready 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
  5. Make ready 2 celery stalks
  6. Prepare bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
  7. Get 10 cups water
  8. Make ready For the Onions and Soup
  9. Take 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
  10. Get 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
  11. Prepare 1 tsp salt
  12. Prepare 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
  13. Make ready 3 Tbsp flour
  14. Make ready 1/2 cup dry white wine
  15. Get The strained Stock
  16. Make ready to taste salt and pepper
  17. Prepare 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
  18. Get 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
  19. Get Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
  20. Get Cook and assemble

But only a handful of frugal ingredients make up this restaurant favorite. Our French onion soup is deliciously rich and easy to make at home. This savoury soup is perfect for using up a garden glut and great for dinner parties. French Onion Soup is easier than you think to make at home so you can cuddle up with a big bowl Just the name "French Onion Soup" blankets me in warmth - and has me drooling.

Steps to make French Onion Soup:
  1. Heat oven to 450F. Arrange the meat, bones, onions, and carrots in a cast iron pan. Place in the middle portion of the oven and roast for 30-40 minutes, turning occasionally until nicely browned.
  2. Remove from the oven and drain fat out of roasting pan. Transfer into an 8 or 10 quart soup kettle. Pour a cup or two of the water to the pan, set over heat (or back in the still hot oven). Scrape up all the brown bits at the bottom. Pour all that into the kettle.
  3. Tie the Bousquet garni in a coffee filter or cheese cloth.
  4. Cover ingredients with 10 cups water. Bring to a simmer, skim and add the salt, celery and bouquet garni. Simmer the stock for 4 to 5 hours. Strain the stock out of the kettle into a bowl.
  5. ONIONS, COOKING AND FINAL ASSEMBLY
  6. Melt butter, add oil to a large pot. Add sugar and onions, cover and cook on low for 30 minutes.
  7. Raise heat and cook, stirring often on medium until golden, around 45 minutes
  8. Stir in flour, cook for a minute and add stock and wine. Partially cover and simmer gently for one hour.
  9. Add Cognac, ladle into oven proof soup bowls, add bread slice and cover with cheese.
  10. Bake at 400 degrees until lightly brown.

French Onion Soup is essentially caramelised onion in soup form topped with cheesy bread. French Onion Soup is probably one of the most epic soups in this whole wide world. A hot bowl of french onion soup is the perfect meal on a crisp, cool day. I especially love it when there's a thick chunk of French bread topped with glorious melted cheese floating in the middle of the. I've adapted this French Onion Soup recipe from Julia Child's magnificent book, Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

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