Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. French onion soup is a bistro classic, the most homey and delicious example of good café cooking.
French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- Get The Stock
- Get 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Prepare 2 onions, halved
- Get 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
- Get 2 celery stalks
- Take bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Take 10 cups water
- Get For the Onions and Soup
- Prepare 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Get 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Get 3 Tbsp flour
- Get 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Prepare The strained Stock
- Take to taste salt and pepper
- Get 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Get 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Take Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Get Cook and assemble
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 one of my favorite comfort foods. For years, I haven't been able to find a good vegetarian version of it, because it's traditionally made with beef broth.
Instructions 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.
French onion soup is one of my favorite comfort foods. For years, I haven't been able to find a good vegetarian version of it, because it's traditionally made with beef broth. Making truly authentic French Onion Soup is easier than you think! This wonderful, simple and flavorful soup is the perfect warm dish for winter! French onion soup is a hearty dish made with the comforting flavors of onions, beef stock, bread and cheese.
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