Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
French Onion Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. French Onion Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have french onion soup using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- Get 4 Tbsp butter
- Prepare 4 Tbsp olive oil
- Make ready 7 cups sliced onions (about 7 medium onions)
- Prepare 3 Tbsp flour
- Get 8 cups beef broth (I use 8 cups water and 8 packets beef bovril)
- Prepare 1 clove garlic sliced
- Make ready 1 tsp sugar
- Take 1 cup dry white wine
- Get 1 stick French bread sliced into 1/2 or 3/4 inch thick pieces
- Get Swiss gruyere or mozzarella cheese (thinly sliced or grated)
And yet, the soup itself is made with very few core ingredients: butter, onions, flour and stock/broth. 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. There are two essential components of a good French onion soup.
Steps to make French Onion Soup:
- Melt butter in large sauce pan then add 2 Tbsp olive oil.
- Stir in onions, garlic and sugar.
- Cook uncovered over low to medium heat, stirring occasionally for 20 to 30 minutes or until onions are golden brown.
- Sprinkle flour over onions and cook for another 1 or 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Add beef stock and wine and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, partially covered for another 30 to 40 minutes.
- While the soup simmers, prepare the bread.
- Brush bread slices lightly with remaining olive oil on both sides and put on pan in 350 degree oven. Lightly toast each side (turn part way).
- Ladle soup into individual oven proof bowls and top with 2 or 3 slices of French bread followed by the cheese.
- Put oven proof bowls on a baking pan and bake in 350 degree for 10 to 20 minutes until cheese is melted.
- Enjoy!
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. If you use boxed stock, taste it first! Meanwhile, lightly toast bread under a broiler; set aside. Ladle hot soup into six ovenproof bowls.
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