Steps to Prepare Ultimate French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

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. We have been trying French onion soup in restaurants for years and my family and friends agree none can compare to my recipe for taste and simplicity of preparation.

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

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:

1. Make ready The Stock
2. Take 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
3. Get 2 onions, halved
4. Make ready 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
5. Take 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. Take 10 cups water
8. Take For the Onions and Soup
9. Take 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
10. Make ready 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. Take 3 Tbsp flour
14. Get 1/2 cup dry white wine
15. Prepare The strained Stock
16. Take 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

And yet, the soup itself is made with very few core ingredients: butter, onions, flour and stock/broth. 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. Most people think of French onion soup as "restaurant food" but it actually originated as a simple peasant dish made from onions, stale bread, and water.

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.

But only a handful of frugal ingredients make up this restaurant favorite. Most people think of French onion soup as "restaurant food" but it actually originated as a simple peasant dish made from onions, stale bread, and water. Modern versions of onion soup are more. French onion soup is one of my favorite comfort foods. For years, I hadn't been able to find a good vegetarian version of it, because it's traditionally made with beef broth.

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