Easiest Way to Make Homemade French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, french onion soup. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. 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. Get The Stock
2. Get lbs. cracked beef bones/soup bones w/o meat
3. Make ready onions, halved
4. Get scrubbed quartered carrots
5. Prepare celery stalks
6. Get bouquet garni:0.25 tsp. thyme, 1 bay leaf, 6 parsley sprigs, 2 unpeeled garlic cloves, 2 whole cloves
7. Get water
8. Take For the Onions and Soup
9. Get or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
10. Take Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
11. Prepare salt
12. Prepare ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
13. Get flour
14. Make ready dry white wine
15. Take The strained Stock
16. Take salt and pepper
17. Make ready tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
18. Get rounds of hard-toasted french bread
19. Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
20. Make ready Cook and assemble

Instructions 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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