Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to 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 in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- Prepare The Stock
- Get 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Prepare 2 onions, halved
- Make ready 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
- Get 2 celery stalks
- Take bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Make ready 10 cups water
- Make ready For the Onions and Soup
- Take 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Make ready 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Make ready 3 Tbsp flour
- Make ready 1/2 cup dry white wine
- Take The strained Stock
- Prepare to taste salt and pepper
- Prepare 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Make ready 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Make ready Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Take Cook and assemble
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. Add the flour and stir to coat the onions. Melt the butter and oil in a deep saucepan.
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 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. Sometimes you just can't beat a classic French onion soup that is hearty, flavoursome and warms you up from the inside out.
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