French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

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Compare Prices on Crocks For French Onion Soup in Kitchen & Dining. Melt the stick of butter in a large pot over medium heat. Ladle soup into oven safe serving bowls and place one slice of bread on top of each (bread may be broken into pieces if you prefer). French onion soup gets its rich flavor and color from the cooking of the onions.

French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

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

It's topped with a crispy crouton, loads of shredded gruyere cheese and broiled into a crispy, cheesy oblivion. French Onion Soup is essentially caramelised onion in soup form topped with cheesy bread. Caramelising onions calls for patience, but it's worth it. You'll be rewarded with deeply golden, intensely sweet onions that forms an incredible flavour base for this French Onion Soup.

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.

Caramelising onions calls for patience, but it's worth it. You'll be rewarded with deeply golden, intensely sweet onions that forms an incredible flavour base for this French Onion Soup. 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.

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