Hey everyone, it is Jim, 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. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Stay warm with this GREAT French onion soup! With beef stock base, slow-cooked caramelized onions, French bread, gruyere and Parmesan cheese. 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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Take The Stock
- Make ready 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Take 2 onions, halved
- Prepare 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
- Get 2 celery stalks
- Prepare bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Take 10 cups water
- Make ready For the Onions and Soup
- Prepare 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Prepare 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
- Take 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Get The strained Stock
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Take 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Prepare 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Take Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Make ready Cook and assemble
French Onion Soup is essentially caramelised onion in soup form topped with cheesy bread. French Onion Soup is probably one of the most epic soups in this whole wide world. French Onion Soup is a deeply flavorful blend of onions caramelized in butter and slow simmered in a rich medley of beef broth and white wine, then finished with a splash of Cognac and topped with. French Onion Soup is a classic soup recipe for good reason!
Steps 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.
Sweet caramelized onions are Broiling: French onion soup can be broiled in almost any bowl on low. A French Onion Soup recipe we heard you say!? No problem, French Guy Cooking to the rescue. Sweet onions, melted cheese and finished with a gnarly top. I use a French Onion Soup recipe of an old ballet friend's mom as a guide, then tweak things a little here and there.
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