Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade French Onion Soup

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook french onion soup using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

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. Prepare 2 onions, halved
4. Prepare 2 scrubbed quartered carrots
5. Get 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. Make ready 10 cups water
8. Take For the Onions and Soup
9. Make ready 1 1/2 lbs or about 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onion
10. Take 3 Tbsp Tbs butter+1 Tbs Oil
11. Make ready 1 tsp salt
12. Prepare 1 ⁄4 tsp sugar (helps the onions to brown)
13. Get 3 Tbsp flour
14. Prepare 1/2 cup dry white wine
15. Prepare The strained Stock
16. Get to taste salt and pepper
17. Get 2 Tbsp tbs Cognac, brings the flavors together
18. Get 4 rounds of hard-toasted french bread
19. Prepare Grated good Swiss Cheese to cover
20. Prepare 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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