Mike's French Onion Soup
Mike's French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mike's french onion soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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. Great recipe for Mike's French Onion Soup.

Mike's French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Mike's French Onion Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have mike's french onion soup using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's French Onion Soup:
  1. Prepare 2 EX LG Vidalia Onions [no substitutions]
  2. Prepare 2 Coves Garlic [smashed & fine chopped]
  3. Get 1/3 Cup Green Onions [small chop]
  4. Get 1/2 Stick Unsalted Butter
  5. Make ready 1 LG Bay Leaf
  6. Prepare 3/4 teaspoon Dried Thyme
  7. Get Cracked Black Pepper [to taste]
  8. Prepare 32 oz Box Beef Broth [low sodium]
  9. Take 1/2 Cup Dry White Wine [chardonnay]
  10. Take 1 LG Baguette Bread
  11. Prepare Garlic Butter [as needed - for bread]
  12. Make ready 1 Gruyère Cheese [4 slices or 1 brick - you can substitute Swiss if in a pinch]
  13. Get 1 1/2 tbsp AP Flour
  14. Make ready Fresh Parsley [for garnish]
  15. Prepare 1/2-3/4 Packet Lipton Onion Soup Mix
  16. Make ready 2 LG Oven Safe Ramikins

Classic French Onion Soup comes with beef broth, sherry, garlic, and caramelized onions. Topped with French bread crostini, Swiss and Parmesan cheese. Growing up, my mother always made French onion soup on special occasions. It might seem like an odd thing to include on the Thanksgiving table, but it was my father's favorite soup.

Steps to make Mike's French Onion Soup:
  1. Add butter to a large pot. Slice onions thin and place in pot. Also, add your green onions, garlic, thyme, black pepper and bay leaf. Simmer onions for 25+ minutes until onions are limp and translucent. Stir regularly.
  2. Add white wine and simmer 5 minutes longer to burn off alcohol. Pull bay leaf.
  3. Dust onion mixture with your flour and cook for about 5 to 7 minutes to cook out any flavor of flour. Stir constantly. Add minimal amounts of butter to pot if your flour begins to seize up and is too difficult to stir. Or, if you feel it's in danger of burning.
  4. Add your broth and 1/2 to 3/4 package of Lipton Onion Soup Mix. I use 2/3's packet for the additional sodium & onion flavors. It really does balance the sweetness of the Vidalia Onions quite well. Simmer 10 minutes longer. Stir occasionally.
  5. Here's your desired outcome.
  6. Slice your Baguette Bread into 4 pieces. Cut more if you'd like to serve additional slices for dipping. Coat slices with garlic butter. Place in a 350° preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes - or, until baguettes are browned and crispy.
  7. Ladle your hot soup into your Ramikins. Place Ramikins on a lifted edge cookie sheet. These can easily overflow. In fact, it's desired that they do! Just not today in my new oven.
  8. Place 2 toasted garlic Crustinis in each of your your Ramikins.
  9. Slice your Gruyère Cheese and place on top of your toasted Crustinis.
  10. Turn on your ovens broiler.
  11. Place Ramikins in oven for 5 minutes. Or, until your cheese is fully melted and browned.
  12. Garnish with fresh parsley. Allow dish to sit for 3 minutes. Then serve. Enjoy!

Since the onions required hours of babysitting to prevent them from burning, Mom was only willing to make the dish a few times a year! Even a handful of boiled potatoes and fresh noodles would work well with French onion soup. Steak is also a good dish to pair with French onion soup. You'll have a complete meal when you serve French onion soup with a meat course like steak. Then have a slice of toasted French bread and you'll have a very filling lunch or dinner.

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