French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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French Onion Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
  1. Take The Stock
  2. Make ready 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
  3. Make ready 2 onions, halved
  4. Take 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
  5. Prepare 2 celery stalks
  6. Take bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
  7. Take 10 cups water
  8. Take For the Onions and Soup
  9. Prepare 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
  10. Take 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
  11. Take 1 tsp salt
  12. Take 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
  13. Get 3 Tbsp flour
  14. Make ready 1/2 cup dry white wine
  15. Prepare The strained Stock
  16. Get to taste salt and pepper
  17. Make ready 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
  18. Prepare 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
  19. Get Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
  20. Make ready 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. Sometimes you just can't beat a classic French onion soup that is hearty, flavoursome and warms you up from the inside out. The best French onion soup is made by creating layers of flavour, starting with a good quality beef stock, then adding caramelised onions and wine.

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.

Sometimes you just can't beat a classic French onion soup that is hearty, flavoursome and warms you up from the inside out. The best French onion soup is made by creating layers of flavour, starting with a good quality beef stock, then adding caramelised onions and wine. My version uses Essential Cuisine's Veal Jus, which adds a luxuriously rich flavour boost to the finished soup. Served with melting Gruyere toasts, this is the ultimate winter comfort dish. French onion soup On a chilly winter's day a bowl of soup really hits the spot.

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