French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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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 cheese floating on top.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
  1. Take The Stock
  2. Take 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
  3. Make ready 2 onions, halved
  4. Take 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
  5. Make ready 2 celery stalks
  6. Prepare 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. Get 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. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  12. Get 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. Get The strained Stock
  16. Take to taste salt and pepper
  17. Make ready 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
  18. Get 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
  19. Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
  20. Prepare Cook and assemble

French onion soup is a bistro classic, the most homey and delicious example of good café cooking. But only a handful of frugal ingredients make up this restaurant favorite. Learn how to make French onion soup with this classic French onion soup recipe! It's easy to make, full of amazing flavor, and can be made vegetarian by using vegetable stock.

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.

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