Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Stay warm with this GREAT French onion soup! With beef stock base, slow-cooked caramelized onions, French bread, gruyere and Parmesan cheese. French onion soup (French: soupe à l'oignon [sup a lɔɲɔ̃]) is a type of soup usually based on meat stock and onions, and often served gratinéed with croutons or a larger piece of bread covered with. French onion soup is a bistro classic, the most homey and delicious example of good café cooking.

French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:

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

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. I often suggest additions or subtractions to a recipe. French onion soup is one of my favorite comfort foods. For years, I haven't been able to find a good vegetarian version of it, because it's traditionally made with beef broth.

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.

French onion soup is one of my favorite comfort foods. For years, I haven't been able to find a good vegetarian version of it, because it's traditionally made with beef broth. Making truly authentic French Onion Soup is easier than you think! This wonderful, simple and flavorful soup is the perfect warm dish for winter! French onion soup is a hearty dish made with the comforting flavors of onions, beef stock, bread and cheese.

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