How to Cook French Onion Soup
Serves: 8
Preparation time: 5 mins
Cooking time: 1 hour 15 mins
Ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup:
- 4 lb onions, thinly sliced
- 8 country bread slices, each ½’’ thick and halved diagonally
- 2 cups gruyere cheese, grated
- 2 cups low sodium beef broth
- 1 cup dry white wine
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves, chopped
- 6 tbsp unsalted butter, diced
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Cooking instructions for French Onion Soup:
- Toss the butter chunks into a skillet and melt it over moderately high heat.
- Throw in the onions and season with ¼ tsp of black pepper as well as 1 ¼ tsp salt
- Saute them for about 12-15 minutes, stirring at times, until they soften.
- Lower the heat slightly and continue to cook, uncovered, for another hour, while stirring the mixture occasionally, until the onions caramelize.
- Add a splash of white wine and give it a good stir until before cooking it further for a couple of minutes or until it thickens slightly.
- Pour in the beef broth, followed by 6 cups of water and heat the mixture until it starts boiling.
- Reduce the mixture to a simmer and continue to do so for about 15 minutes at moderately low heat.
- Meanwhile, warm up your broiler.
- Arrange the bread slices on a heat-proof baking sheet and broil each side for a minute or two, until they turn crispy golden brown.
- Top each slice with grated cheese and toast further for another couple of minutes or until the cheese melts.
- Ladle the soup into serving bowls and divide the toast between each serving.
- Garnish with chopped thyme and serve hot.
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