Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- Make ready The Stock
- Make ready lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Get onions, halved
- Prepare scrubbed quartered carrots
- Get celery stalks
- Prepare bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Prepare water
- Prepare For the Onions and Soup
- Take or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Get Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Get salt
- Get ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Get flour
- Take dry white wine
- Make ready The strained Stock
- Get salt and pepper
- Prepare tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Take rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Get Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Take Cook and assemble
Add the flour and stir to coat the onions. Melt the butter and oil in a deep saucepan. Add the onion and fry over high heat for few minutes. Remove the lid, sprinkle in the sugar and.
Instructions 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 onion and fry over high heat for few minutes. Remove the lid, sprinkle in the sugar and. Now served without the beef, the quality of the onions is crucial. You want both high acidity and high sugar levels to create a fully-flavoured soup. Make sure you give your onions time to caramelise as it really adds to the flavour and the gruyere cheese on toast.
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