Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. French Onion Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first 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:
- Make ready The Stock
- Take 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Make ready 2 onions, halved
- Take 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
- Get 10 cups water
- Prepare 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
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Get 3 Tbsp flour
- Get 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Prepare The strained Stock
- Make ready to taste salt and pepper
- Prepare 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Take 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Take Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Prepare Cook and assemble
If you use boxed stock, taste it first! French Onion Soup is probably one of the most epic soups in this whole wide world. And yet, the soup itself is made with very few core ingredients: butter, onions, flour and stock/broth. French onion soup gets its rich flavor and color from the cooking of the onions.
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.
While they simmer, the flavors become intense, making this soup a savory delight. French onion soup is a perfect comfort-food dinner, served with a side of bread for dipping and topped with a decadent layer of cheese. Melt the butter with the olive oil in a large heavy-based pan. Melt butter in a heavy soup pot or Dutch oven over medium-low heat. It is a cold winter in Los Angeles.
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