French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
  1. Make ready The Stock
  2. Get 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
  3. Get 2 onions, halved
  4. Take 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
  5. Make ready 2 celery stalks
  6. Take 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. Get 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
  11. Make ready 1 tsp salt
  12. Make ready 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
  13. Get 3 Tbsp flour
  14. Get 1/2 cup dry white wine
  15. Get The strained Stock
  16. Prepare to taste salt and pepper
  17. Take 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. Take Cook and assemble
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.

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