French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. French Onion Soup is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
  1. Get The Stock
  2. Prepare lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
  3. Take onions, halved
  4. Take scrubbed quartered carrots
  5. Get celery stalks
  6. Get bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
  7. Make ready water
  8. Take For the Onions and Soup
  9. Get or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
  10. Make ready Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
  11. Take salt
  12. Prepare ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
  13. Take flour
  14. Make ready dry white wine
  15. Make ready The strained Stock
  16. Prepare salt and pepper
  17. Take tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
  18. Take rounds of hard-toasted french bread
  19. Make ready Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
  20. Take Cook and assemble
Steps to make French Onion Soup:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Tie the Bousquet garni in a coffee filter or cheese cloth.
  4. 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.
  5. ONIONS, COOKING AND FINAL ASSEMBLY
  6. Melt butter, add oil to a large pot. Add sugar and onions, cover and cook on low for 30 minutes.
  7. Raise heat and cook, stirring often on medium until golden, around 45 minutes
  8. Stir in flour, cook for a minute and add stock and wine. Partially cover and simmer gently for one hour.
  9. Add Cognac, ladle into oven proof soup bowls, add bread slice and cover with cheese.
  10. Bake at 400 degrees until lightly brown.

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