Recipe: French onion soup
Summary: Classic french onion soup.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 pounds Onions
- 3 Tbsp. Butter
- 3 Tbsp. Olive oil
- 2 cloves Garlic (chopped)
- 8 slices French bread toasted
- 1/2~1 cup Gruyère, Swiss or Emmental cheese, shredded
- 4 cups Beef stock 1/2 cup White wine salt and pepper to taste.
Instructions
- Slice the onions thinly.
- Add the butter, oil and onions to a pan heated on medium-low to low. Cook onions for about an hour, stirring occasionally. At first the onions will be quite large in volume but will reduce substantially and should fit in your pan. In the last 15 minutes of cooking add the chopped garlic. Cooking the onions this long caramelizes them.
- In a saucepan add the broth and caramelized onions and simmer for about 20 minutes. In oven safe bowls add the hot broth, top with the toasted french bread and then with the shredded cheese, enough so the bread is covered.
- Set the oven to broil and put your bowls in the oven until the cheese is a little golden brown-ish.
Quick Notes
Make sure to taste the broth before adding salt as some prepackaged broths are already salty enough. If you have a large deep pan you can do the soup in that. This way you can just add the broth to your caramelized onions and simmer it.
This soup is also a great way to use up old stale breads as they are dryer and soak up even more broth.
Variations
Instead of french bread you can also use croutons.
Cooking time (duration): 80
Number of servings (yield): 4
Meal type: dinner
Culinary tradition: French
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