French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Melt the stick of butter in a large pot over medium heat. After ordering this soup many times at restaurants, this recipe reproduces precisely what French Onion Soup is supposed to taste like. 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. French onion soup gets its rich flavor and color from the cooking of the onions.

French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. French Onion Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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

Arrange the bowls on a baking pan. There are two essential components of a good French onion soup. Your soup will only be as good as the stock you are using. This soup traditionally is made with beef stock, though sometimes a good beef stock can be hard to come by and expensive to make.

Instructions 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.

Your soup will only be as good as the stock you are using. This soup traditionally is made with beef stock, though sometimes a good beef stock can be hard to come by and expensive to make. French Onion Soup is such a classic and SO easy to make! Onions are slowly caramelized until soft and sweet, simmered with beef broth, thyme, and just a touch of sugar. It's topped with a crispy crouton, loads of shredded gruyere cheese and broiled into a crispy, cheesy oblivion.

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