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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 cheese floating on top.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- Make ready The Stock
- Prepare 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Prepare 2 onions, halved
- Get 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
- Get 2 celery stalks
- Prepare bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Take 10 cups water
- Take For the Onions and Soup
- Make ready 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Take 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Get 3 Tbsp flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Prepare The strained Stock
- Take to taste salt and pepper
- Make ready 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Get 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Get Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Take Cook and assemble
French onion soup is a bistro classic, the most homey and delicious example of good café cooking. 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.
Steps to make French Onion Soup:
- 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.
- 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.
- Tie the Bousquet garni in a coffee filter or cheese cloth.
- 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.
- ONIONS, COOKING AND FINAL ASSEMBLY
- Melt butter, add oil to a large pot. Add sugar and onions, cover and cook on low for 30 minutes.
- Raise heat and cook, stirring often on medium until golden, around 45 minutes
- Stir in flour, cook for a minute and add stock and wine. Partially cover and simmer gently for one hour.
- Add Cognac, ladle into oven proof soup bowls, add bread slice and cover with cheese.
- Bake at 400 degrees until lightly brown.
Look, French Onion Soup a challenging soup to eat: chunks of chewy cheese and soggy bread floating on top.but it's supposed to be that way. I often suggest additions or subtractions to a recipe. 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. French onion soup can be a little fussy, time-consuming, and tear-inducing, but if you've got a few hours on a rainy Saturday, there are few better ways to spend it than in the pursuit of this classic. This french onion soup recipe is made with perfectly caramelized onions, fresh thyme sprigs It's just your classic, traditional French onion soup.
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