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Stay warm with this GREAT French onion soup! With beef stock base, slow-cooked caramelized onions, French bread, gruyere and Parmesan cheese. Stay warm with this GREAT French onion soup!
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook french onion soup with parmesan/cheddar croutons using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make French Onion Soup with Parmesan/Cheddar Croutons:
- Get 4 large Yellow onions, finely sliced
- Take 4 Red onions, finely sliced
- Take 1 Leek, finely sliced and washed
- Take 5 clove Garlic, minced
- Prepare 40 grams Butter
- Prepare 2 tbsp Olive oil
- Get 1 Dried bay leaf
- Prepare 1 bouquet garni of parsley, thyme and oregano
- Prepare 1 3/4 Litre, good quality chicken stock
- Take 1 cup Red wine
- Get 1 Splash of cider vinegar
- Prepare 1 Grated cheddar & Parmesan to serve
- Prepare 1 Salt and pepper to taste
- Make ready 1 French stick, sliced thickly diagonally
- Take 1 Grated cheddar and Parmesan
I don't make onion soup at home partly because I lack the flameproof bowls that chefs run under the broiler to melt the cheese. The more I pondered this, the more I wondered if I could skip those individual bowls, layer the croutons and cheese directly into the soup pot, and just broil the whole. French Onion Soup is easier than you think to make at home so you can cuddle up with a big bowl of hot, herby beef broth loaded with deeply flavorful caramelized onions and ooey gooey Gruyere croutons any night of the week! I've included detailed instructions, tips for perfect caramelized.
Steps to make French Onion Soup with Parmesan/Cheddar Croutons:
- Slice all onions and leeks.
- Heat a large heavy base melt butter and add olive oil- high heat. Add onions and leek. You want to sweat down onions slowly for around and hour. Stir occasionally, and return lid so that it 3/4 covers pot- allowing steam to escape.
- You will have to turn temp down whilst cooking onions, you don't want to burn or over do them. - Meanwhile, gather herbs and tie together with string to make bouquet garni.
- Deglaze pot with wine and vinegar. Add stock and herbs. Bring to the boil- reduce heat and simmer for a further 1/2 hour. Check and adjust seasoning if needed.
- Now to get croutons ready. Heat oven to 160*C. Slice French stick. Grate cheddar and Parmesan over bread. Grate extra cheese to add to soup.
- Bake until golden brown an cheese has melted. Remove and set aside.
- Serve soup in a bowl with a sprinkle of cheese and top with croutons. - Yum!
This french onion soup recipe is made with perfectly caramelized onions, fresh thyme sprigs, crusty baguette slices and two It's just your classic, traditional French onion soup. With the most perfect caramelized onions in a cozy stock with fresh thyme sprigs, finished off with crusty French baguette. French onion soup (French: soupe à l'oignon [sup a lɔɲɔ̃]) is a type of soup usually based on meat stock and onions, and often served gratinéed with croutons or a larger piece of bread covered with cheese floating on top. French Onion Soup is a deeply flavorful blend of onions caramelized in butter and slow simmered in a rich medley of beef broth and white wine, then finished with a splash of Cognac and topped with toasted croutons and bubbly Gruyere cheese. I've adapted this French Onion Soup recipe from Julia Child's.
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