Easiest Way to Make Favorite French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, french onion soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. French Onion Soup is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook french onion soup using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:

1. Prepare 1/2 cup unsalted butter
2. Get 4 onions, sliced
3. Take 2 garlic cloves, chopped
4. Get 2 bay leaves
5. Make ready 2 fresh thyme sprigs
6. Get Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
7. Prepare 1 cup red wine, about 1/2 bottle
8. Take 3 heaping Tbsp all-purpose flour
9. Prepare 2 quarts beef broth
10. Get 1 baguette, sliced
11. Take 1/2 pound grated Gruyere

Steps to make French Onion Soup:

1. Melt the stick of butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the onions, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, and salt and pepper and cook until the onions are very soft and caramelized, about 25 minutes. Add the wine, bring to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer until the wine has evaporated and the onions are dry, about 5 minutes. Discard the bay leaves and thyme sprigs.
2. Dust the onions with the flour and give them a stir. Turn the heat down to medium low so the flour doesn't burn, and cook for 10 minutes.
3. When you're ready to eat, preheat the broiler. Arrange the baguette slices on a baking sheet in a single layer. Sprinkle the slices with the Gruyere and broil until bubbly and golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
4. Ladle the soup in bowls and float several of the Gruyere croutons on top.
5. Alternative method: Ladle the soup into bowls, top each with 2 slices of bread and top with cheese. Put the bowls into the oven to toast the bread and melt the cheese.

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