Steps to Make Gordon Ramsay French Onion Soup

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French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

After ordering this soup many times at restaurants, this recipe reproduces precisely what French Onion Soup is supposed to taste like. 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. Instant Pot French Onion Soup: Convenient, yes, but you'll want to give the onions more time to caramelize to get the color and flavor that are are the hallmarks of French onion soup. Vegan French Onion Soup: A classic preparation, but with vegan-friendly ingredients.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Prepare 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
3. Prepare 2 onions, halved
4. Prepare 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
5. Prepare 2 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 10 cups water
8. Get For the Onions and Soup
9. Take 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
10. Get 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
11. Get 1 tsp salt
12. Make ready 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
13. Take 3 Tbsp flour
14. Make ready 1/2 cup dry white wine
15. Prepare The strained Stock
16. Prepare to taste salt and pepper
17. Make ready 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
18. Make ready 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
19. Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
20. Take Cook and assemble

DIRECTIONS SOUP: In dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat. In a large pot over medium-high heat, melt butter. There are two essential components of a good French onion soup. Your soup will only be as good as the stock you are using.

Instructions 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.

There are two essential components of a good French onion soup. Your soup will only be as good as the stock you are using. This soup traditionally is made with beef stock, though sometimes a good beef stock can be hard to come by and expensive to make. Melt butter in a heavy soup pot or Dutch oven over medium-low heat. Place soup pot into the oven with the lid slightly ajar to ensure the onions will brown.

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