Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. French Onion Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we must first 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:
Make ready The Stock
Get 4 lb lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
Take 2 onions, halved
Make ready 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
Take 2 celery stalks
Take bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
Make ready 10 cups water
Make ready For the Onions and Soup
Take 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
Take 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
Get 1 tsp salt
Make ready 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
Make ready 3 Tbsp flour
Prepare 1/2 cup dry white wine
Make ready The strained Stock
Prepare to taste salt and pepper
Make ready 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
Get 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
Get 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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