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French Onion Soup
Serves:
4
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Difficulty:
medium
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Step 1
Ingredients
¼ cup
Unsalted Butter Quarters
4-5
large yellow onions (about 3 pounds), peeled and thinly sliced
4
garlic cloves, chopped
1 tsp
kosher salt
¾ tsp
black pepper
2 quarts (8 cups)
beef stock
1 cup
dry white wine
1 Tbsp
all-purpose flour
1
bay leaf
2 sprigs
fresh thyme (or ½ tsp dried thyme)
baguette, cut into ½-inch slices
2 cups
Swiss Finely Shredded Cheese
½ cups
Parmesan Finely Shredded Cheese
fresh thyme, for garnish
Instructions
Melt butter in a heavy Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onions, garlic, salt, and black pepper. Stir and cover, letting onions soften for 5 minutes. Remove lid and allow onions to cook over medium-low heat, stirring about every 5 minutes initially, then about every minute once the onions begin to caramelize to prevent burning. Watch the heat on this step, as you don’t want them to brown too quickly!
(This caramelization process may take up to 45 minutes.)
Once the onions are caramelized, mix in wine. Allow this mixture to come to a boil. Whisk in flour and cook for about 5 minutes, letting mixture thicken and to cook out the raw flour taste.
Slowly add the beef broth to the onion mixture. Add in bay leaf and thyme, then bring mixture to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to a simmer. Cook for 12 minutes, then remove bay leaf and thyme sprigs. Taste the soup and salt and pepper it to taste.
Heat the broiler. While it is warming up, ladle mixture into individual casseroles/crocks/oven-safe soup cups and place on baking sheet. Top with bread slice(s). Sprinkle Swiss and Parmesan cheeses generously on top of the bread. Broil for a minute for two until melted and lightly browned. Watch closely to prevent burning.
Top with fresh thyme and serve immediately.