Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Low Prices on French Onion Soup. Melt the butter with the olive oil in a large heavy-based pan. French Onion Soup There are few things more comforting than making a real French onion soup - slowly cooked, caramelised onions that turn mellow and sweet in a broth laced with white wine and Cognac. The whole thing is finished off with crunchy baked croutons of crusty bread topped with melted, toasted cheese.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook 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
- Prepare 2 onions, halved
- Get 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
- Make ready 2 celery stalks
- Prepare bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Prepare 10 cups water
- Take For the Onions and Soup
- Take 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Make ready 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Prepare 3 Tbsp flour
- Get 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Prepare The strained Stock
- Take to taste salt and pepper
- Prepare 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Get 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Get Cook and assemble
Ladle into ovenproof bowls and top each with two croutons and a mound of cheese. Grill until the cheese is molten and. Add the flour and stir to coat the onions. Make sure you give your onions time to caramelise as it really adds to the flavour and the gruyere cheese on toast.
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.
Add the flour and stir to coat the onions. Make sure you give your onions time to caramelise as it really adds to the flavour and the gruyere cheese on toast. Head chef Ben Dineen opts for Spanish onions. "We. Melt the butter and oil in a deep saucepan. Add the onion and fry over high heat for few minutes.
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