Simple Way to Make Quick French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

After ordering this soup many times at restaurants, this recipe reproduces precisely what French Onion Soup is supposed to taste like. 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. 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.

French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. French Onion Soup is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this 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:

1. Prepare The Stock
2. Make ready 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
3. Get 2 onions, halved
4. Take 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
5. Prepare 2 celery stalks
6. Prepare bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
7. Make ready 10 cups water
8. Prepare For the Onions and Soup
9. Make ready 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
10. Get 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
11. Take 1 tsp salt
12. Take 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
13. Make ready 3 Tbsp flour
14. Take 1/2 cup dry white wine
15. Get The strained Stock
16. Make ready to taste salt and pepper
17. Get 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
18. Prepare 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
19. Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
20. Make ready Cook and assemble

It's topped with a crispy crouton, loads of shredded gruyere cheese and broiled into a crispy, cheesy oblivion. 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.

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.

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. French Onion Soup is essentially caramelised onion in soup form topped with cheesy bread. Caramelising onions calls for patience, but it's worth it. You'll be rewarded with deeply golden, intensely sweet onions that forms an incredible flavour base for this French Onion Soup.

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