How to Prepare Homemade French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

Browse Our Fast & Easy French Soup Recipes Collection. Melt the stick of butter in a large pot over medium heat. Ladle soup into oven safe serving bowls and place one slice of bread on top of each (bread may be broken into pieces if you prefer). Instant Pot French Onion Soup: Convenient, yes, but you'll want to give the onions more time to caramelize to get the color and flavor that are are the hallmarks of French onion soup.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook french onion soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:

1. Make ready 1/2 cup unsalted butter
2. Prepare 4 onions, sliced
3. Get 2 garlic cloves, chopped
4. Prepare 2 bay leaves
5. Make ready 2 fresh thyme sprigs
6. Make ready Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
7. Take 1 cup red wine, about 1/2 bottle
8. Prepare 3 heaping Tbsp all-purpose flour
9. Take 2 quarts beef broth
10. Get 1 baguette, sliced
11. Prepare 1/2 pound grated Gruyere

Add the oil, onions, salt, pepper, and sugar. Melt butter in a heavy soup pot or Dutch oven over medium-low heat. Place soup pot into the oven with the lid slightly ajar to ensure the onions will brown. There are two essential components of a good French onion soup.

Steps to make French Onion Soup:

1. Melt the stick of butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onions, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, and salt and pepper and cook until the onions are very soft and caramelized, about 25 minutes. Add the wine, bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer until the wine has evaporated and the onions are dry, about 5 minutes. Discard the bay leaves and thyme sprigs.
2. Dust the onions with the flour and give them a stir. Turn the heat down to medium low so the flour doesn't burn, and cook for 10 minutes.
3. When you're ready to eat, preheat the broiler. Arrange the baguette slices on a baking sheet in a single layer. Sprinkle the slices with the Gruyere and broil until bubbly and golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
4. Ladle the soup in bowls and float several of the Gruyere croutons on top.
5. Alternative method: Ladle the soup into bowls, top each with 2 slices of bread and top with cheese. Put the bowls into the oven to toast the bread and melt the cheese.

Place soup pot into the oven with the lid slightly ajar to ensure the onions will brown. There are two essential components of a good French onion soup. Your soup will only be as good as the stock you are using. This soup traditionally is made with beef stock, though sometimes a good beef stock can be hard to come by and expensive to make. Place onions and butter in saucepan.

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