Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, classic french onion soup. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Melt the butter with the olive oil in a large heavy-based pan. The onions should be really golden, full of flavour and soft when pinched between your fingers. What you'll need to make French Onion Soup How To Make French Onion Soup.
Classic French Onion Soup is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Classic French Onion Soup is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have classic french onion soup using 10 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic French Onion Soup:
- Take 400 gram white onions
- Take 1 dollop of unsalted butter
- Get 300 ml vegetable/chicken stock
- Take as needed Mixed Herbs
- Prepare 1 Bay leaf
- Make ready to taste Salt and crushed black pepper to season
- Prepare 300-350 gm grated gruyere/parmesan cheese
- Make ready Slices French Baguette to top
- Prepare 2 tablespoon plain flour
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Apple cider vinegar/1.5 tablespoon white wine
Now sprinkle the grated Gruyère thickly over the croutons and place the whole lot under the grill until the cheese is golden brown and bubbling. Slices of French baguette form the base of the classic topper for French onion soup gratinée: crusty bread and melted cheese. And, if your bread happens to be slightly stale, that's even better! A lightly toasted or slightly stale piece of bread will absorb just enough of the broth without becoming a soggy mess by the time the soup is on the table.
Steps to make Classic French Onion Soup:
- Peel and slice the onions thin and lengthwise
- Melt the butter in a pot
- Add and sauté the onions on low heat
- Keep stirring in between as the onions brown to avoid burning them
- Meanwhile, bring the stock to a boil in another vessel and add the herbs and Bay leaf
- Strain the stick after 3-4 minutes
- Once visibly brown, add the flour and mix for a few seconds
- Next goes in the cider vinegar/ wine
- Add and sauté the onions for a few seconds
- Add the stock and bring to a boil
- Reduce heat and allow the soup to simmer while you season it with salt and pepper
- Mix and take off heat
- Spoon the soup equally into oven safe bowls
- Top with baguette slices and spread a generous amount of cheese covering the surface well
- Microwave till the cheese melts / even browns a bit
- Let the bowl cool off slightly till you can handle it
- Serve while the soup is warm. Enjoy!
- Watch full recipe video at: https://youtu.be/yWb4ygzX77I
There are a lot of French Onion Soup recipes on Zaar, but I think that this very authentic version deserves a place on the list. After making many of the existing recipes with success, I wrote down this recipe while watching Julia Child in a very old episode of "The French Chef". It takes a little longer, but the time is very well spent. It is also more detailed than others and includes fool. Butter a rimmed baking sheet and arrange the baguette slices on the sheet in a single layer.
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