Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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
- Get lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
- Prepare onions, halved
- Get 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
- Take water
- Make ready For the Onions and Soup
- Prepare or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
- Take Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
- Take salt
- Get ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
- Take flour
- Take dry white wine
- Take The strained Stock
- Get salt and pepper
- Take tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
- Get rounds of hard-toasted french bread
- Make ready Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
- Prepare Cook and assemble
Steps 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.
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