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French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
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 can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- Take The Stock
- Take lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Prepare onions, halved
- Make ready scrubbed quartered carrots
- Get celery stalks
- Get bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
- Prepare water
- Make ready For the Onions and Soup
- Prepare or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Prepare Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Get salt
- Make ready β4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Take flour
- Prepare dry white wine
- Take The strained Stock
- Take salt and pepper
- Get tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Make ready rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Make ready 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. French onion soup On a chilly winter's day a bowl of soup really hits the spot. Make sure you give your onions time to caramelise as it really adds to the flavour and the gruyere cheese on toast. Add the brandy to the soup, and check and adjust the seasoning, if necessary.
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