Рецепт Homemade French Onion Soup
Homemade French Onion Soup
March 16, 2015Leave a Comment
Homemade French Onion Soup is one of my favorite recipes of all time. I don’t know why a soup that is so simple in the ingredients tastes wonderfully complex and rich. You can make this soup, it may take a little extra time, but once you make this, you will never buy this in a can any longer.
Growing up for special occasions my family would go out to a nice steakhouse for a fancy dinner. Being a child of the 1980s this meant you could order French Onion Soup in a fancy restaurant. This was a soup my mother never made. So for me, it was a treat only available at a restaurant. When I grew up as a young adult a dinner at a steak restaurant meant I would order a bowl of this soup.
This soup has a few key ingredients. You will need real butter, this will help the onions caramelize very well. I like to use white onions for this recipe. Yellow onions will work well, but I tend to like the flavor of the white onions best. We will also use cloves, a couple of bay leaves, dry Sherry, flour, beef stock, and Gruyere or Provolone cheese as well as a baguette if you desire.
I suggest using dry Sherry because it is going to pick up the browned bits of the onion that will appear in your pan. This is where the flavor comes from. I like to use a dry Sherry because it is a fortified wine. A fortified wine is great to have around because you can use it when you need a little something extra in a dish. Regular wine isn’t fortified so it will oxidize and go bad, where a fortified wine won’t oxidize so you can use it anytime.
So this soup isn’t hard to make at all, so I encourage you to give this recipe a try.
French Onion Soup
Prepare this easy to make French Onion soup at home.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter
- 2 pounds white onions sliced fine
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped coarsely
- 2 bay leaves
- french ground black pepper
- 1 cup dry Sherry
- 3 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
- 2 quarts of beef stock
- 1 baguette, sliced if desired
- 1/2 pound cheese Provolone and/or Gruyere cheese
Instructions
Melt the butter in a large heavy bottomed pan over medium heat. When the butter has melted add onions and salt. Cook the onions stirring occasionally until they have browned. This will take about 30 minutes. About halfway through the onions browning add the garlic and bay leaves. Add the dry Sherry and scrape up the browned bits on the bottom of the pan. When the Sherry has evaporated add the flour, and stir well.
Cook the flour into the onions until you can detect a faint smell of pie dough. This will take about five minutes. The flour must cook thoroughly. Add the beef stock and turn down the heat to a simmer. When the soup has heated through you may serve the soup.
About Stephanie
I recreate your favorite restaurant recipes, so you can prepare these dishes at home. I help you cook dinner, and serve up dishes you know your family will love. You can find most of the ingredients for all of the recipes in your local grocery store.
Stephanie is the author of CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home, and CopyKat.com's Dining Out in the Home 2.