Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
Ladle soup into oven safe serving bowls and place one slice of bread on top of each (bread may be broken into pieces if you prefer). Melt the stick of butter in a large pot over medium heat. French onion soup gets its rich flavor and color from the cooking of the onions.
To begin with this particular 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 that.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- Make ready The Stock
- Prepare 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Get 2 onions, halved
- Get 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
- Make ready 2 celery stalks
- Take bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Get 10 cups water
- Take For the Onions and Soup
- Take 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Take 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Make ready 3 Tbsp flour
- Prepare 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Get The strained Stock
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Prepare 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Prepare 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Get Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Prepare Cook and assemble
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. 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.
Instructions to make French Onion Soup:
- 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.
- 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.
- Tie the Bousquet garni in a coffee filter or cheese cloth.
- 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.
- ONIONS, COOKING AND FINAL ASSEMBLY
- Melt butter, add oil to a large pot. Add sugar and onions, cover and cook on low for 30 minutes.
- Raise heat and cook, stirring often on medium until golden, around 45 minutes
- Stir in flour, cook for a minute and add stock and wine. Partially cover and simmer gently for one hour.
- Add Cognac, ladle into oven proof soup bowls, add bread slice and cover with cheese.
- Bake at 400 degrees until lightly brown.
If you use boxed stock, taste it first! Meanwhile, lightly toast bread under a broiler; set aside. Ladle hot soup into six ovenproof bowls. Arrange the bowls on a baking pan. In a large Dutch oven or soup pot, melt the butter over medium heat.
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