French Onion Soup Recipe – a Perfect Fall Comfort Food!

ByJamie
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I love French Onion Soup. 聽Love. 聽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. 聽And I couldn’t find quite what I was looking for. 聽So I took different elements from different recipes, and made it my own. 聽And, not to toot my own horn or anything, it turned out just as I wanted it to. 聽I’ve made a French Onion Soup believer out of my husband. 聽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. 聽Mmm…my mouth is watering just thinking of this! 聽So without further ado, here it is. 聽Go give it a try!

French Onion Soup Recipe - a Perfect Fall Comfort Food!

Ingredients:聽

  • 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! 聽Happy Fall!

For another perfect fall recipe, try this hearty chili!

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  4. is it really that easy to make. I love onion soup especially when it has the cheese melted over the cup………….delicious
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  20. My hubby loves French Onion soup. The recipe looks simple even for me since he is the cook in the family and I am not. I am going to surprise him this weekend by preparing this for dinner

  21. My family loves French Onion Soup. It sooo reminds me of when my hubby and I first got married almost 25 years ago and went to Germany. We had some in a small cafe, and it was the first time I had ever had it. I’ll never forget it! Brings back good memories!

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