Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:

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

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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