French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our 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. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
  1. Prepare The Stock
  2. Take 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
  3. Get 2 onions, halved
  4. Get 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
  5. Make ready 2 celery stalks
  6. Make ready bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
  7. Prepare 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. Get 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
  11. Take 1 tsp salt
  12. Make ready 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
  13. Make ready 3 Tbsp flour
  14. Make ready 1/2 cup dry white wine
  15. Take The strained Stock
  16. Get to taste salt and pepper
  17. Get 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
  18. Take 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
  19. Take Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
  20. Get Cook and assemble

It's easy to make, full of amazing flavor, and can be made vegetarian by using vegetable stock. A French Onion Soup recipe we heard you say!? No problem, French Guy Cooking to the rescue. Sweet onions, melted cheese and finished with a gnarly top.

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.

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 a deeply flavorful blend of onions caramelized in butter and slow simmered in a rich medley of beef broth and white wine, then finished with a splash of Cognac and topped with. 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. French onion soup is a bistro classic, the most homey and delicious example of good café cooking.

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