Simple Way to Prepare Favorite French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:

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