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French Onion Soup Recipe – a Perfect Fall Comfort Food!

I love French Onion Soup.  Love.  It is so delicious and rich and reminds me of autumn – my favorite season! Plus, it makes the easy dinner recipes list! So I set out to find the perfect recipe for it.  And I couldn’t find quite what I was looking for.  So I took different elements from different recipes, and made it my own.  And, not to toot my own horn or anything, it turned out just as I wanted it to.  I’ve made a French Onion Soup believer out of my husband.  My toddler (who I admit is strange in his food tastes – only turning his nose up at cotton candy – what the heck?) loves it, too.  Mmm…my mouth is watering just thinking of this!  So without further ado, here it is.  Go give it a try!

French Onion Soup Recipe - a Perfect Fall Comfort Food!

Ingredients: 

  • 5 med. onions
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 3 tbsp. butter
  • 1/2 tsp. dried thyme
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 1/2 tbsp. flour
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1/2 tsp. sugar
  • 1/2 c. dry cooking sherry
  • 6 c. beef stock
  • 1 baguette
  • swiss or gruyere cheese
Thinly slice onions and saute in olive oil & butter until clear. Add salt, pepper, & sugar – carmelize onions (takes quite a while with how many onions there are – you want it to look delicious and golden, not burnt and brown, so take it slow). Add thyme & flour and cook for a few minutes. Add a bay leaf & cooking sherry to deglaze the pan. Cook for 7-9 minutes. Add beef stock and bring to a boil. Simmer until ready to eat.
French Onion Soup
Cut 12 slices of baguette, 1/2″ thick, and butter on one side. Toast in oven under broiler. Cut into chunks (usually quarters, depending on the size of the baguette). Ladle soup into oven-proof bowls, add toasted bread & swiss cheese and broil until melted and brown.
French Onion Soup Recipe - a Perfect Fall Comfort Food!
 
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Ingredients:
  • 5 med. onions
  • 2 tbsp. olive oil
  • 3 tbsp. butter
  • ½ tsp. dried thyme
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1½ tbsp. flour
  • salt
  • pepper
  • ½ tsp. sugar
  • ½ c. dry cooking sherry
  • 6 c. beef stock
  • 1 baguette
  • swiss or gruyere cheese
Directions:
  1. Thinly slice onions and saute in olive oil & butter until clear. Add salt, pepper, & sugar - carmelize onions (takes quite a while with how many onions there are - you want it to look delicious and golden, not burnt and brown, so take it slow).
  2. Add thyme & flour and cook for a few minutes. Add a bay leaf & cooking sherry to deglaze the pan. Cook for 7-9 minutes.
  3. Add beef stock and bring to a boil. Simmer until ready to eat.
  4. Cut 12 slices of baguette, ½" thick, and butter on one side. Toast in oven under broiler.
  5. Cut into chunks (usually quarters, depending on the size of the baguette).
  6. Ladle soup into oven-proof bowls, add toasted bread & swiss cheese and broil until melted and brown.

Delicious!  Happy Fall!

For another perfect fall recipe, try this hearty chili!

Liz Neal

Thursday 24th of January 2013

Love French Onion Soup. Thanks for the recipe.

Kelly Nicholson

Tuesday 22nd of January 2013

This stuff is goooood!

Kelly Nicholson

Thursday 17th of January 2013

i can eat a pot of that..thanks

Lisa R

Monday 14th of January 2013

is it really that easy to make. I love onion soup especially when it has the cheese melted over the cup.............delicious sibabe64 at ptd dot net

jerseygirl137

Friday 11th of January 2013

This really sounds good and easy to make.

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