French Onion Soup
🍳 CookingБГ
Prep20 min
Cook90 min
Total110 min
Onions cooked down for an hour into something almost black and sweet, under a raft of toast and melted Gruyere.
Ingredients
Serves:4
Ingredients
- 1.2 kg onions, thinly sliced
- 60 g butter
- 1.5 l beef stock
- 200 ml dry white wine
- 8 pieces baguette slices
- 200 g Gruyere, grated
- 4 pieces thyme sprigs
- 1 pieces bay leaf
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 2 tbsp brandy
- to taste salt
- to taste black pepper
Nutrition (estimated)
medium confidence439kcal · per serving
13.7g
Protein
60.7g
Carbs
14g
Fat
Recipe total: 1754 kcal · P 54.9g · C 242.9g · F 56g
Estimated from 10 of 12 ingredients
Approximate estimate, calculated from the ingredients.
Video
Steps
Steps
- 1Melt the butter in a wide heavy pot and add all the onions with a good pinch of salt.
- 2Cook over medium-low heat for 50-60 minutes, stirring every few minutes. They must go past golden to a deep mahogany — this is the entire flavour of the soup and there is no way to hurry it.
- 3Scrape up the brown film on the base as it forms; that is where the sweetness lives.
- 4Sprinkle over the flour and cook 2 minutes, then deglaze with the wine and brandy and reduce by half.
- 5Add the stock, thyme and bay and simmer 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
- 6Toast the baguette slices until dry and hard.
- 7Ladle the soup into ovenproof bowls, float the toast on top and heap over the Gruyere.
- 8Grill until the cheese is bubbling and browned at the edges. Serve at once, with a warning about the bowl.
Advertisement
frenchsouponiongruyerecomfortclassic
More recipes like this
Questions and answers
How long does French Onion Soup take to make?
About 110 minutes: 20 min prep and 90 min cooking.
What ingredients do you need for French Onion Soup?
12 ingredients: onions, butter, beef stock, dry white wine, baguette slices, Gruyere, thyme sprigs, bay leaf, plain flour, brandy, salt, black pepper.
How many servings does this French Onion Soup recipe make?
4 servings. The servings buttons above the ingredients rescale every amount.
How many calories are in a serving of French Onion Soup?
About 439 kcal, with 13.7 g protein, 60.7 g carbohydrate and 14 g fat. This is an estimate from the ingredients, not a lab analysis.
What cuisine is French Onion Soup?
French Onion Soup comes from French cuisine.
No ratings yet
Sign in to rate this recipe.
Sign in to mark as cooked.