The best onion soup with of course a piece of bread with loads of cheese on top
Course Soup
Cuisine French
Keyword cheese, onions
Diet vegetarian
Prep Time 20 minutesmins
Cook Time 30 minutesmins
Total Time 50 minutesmins
Servings 4people
Ingredients
1kgred onions
200mlred wine
2bay leaves
700mlbeef stock
125grbutter
olive oil
bread
grated cheese
pepper
nutmeg
smoked paprika powder
Instructions
Clean the onion and cut in rings. This is handy to do with a foodprocessor if you have one, to avoid a tear bath, but you can definitely do it by hand.
Put a large pan on the stove with the butter and gently bake the onions here until caramelized and soft.This takes quite a bit of time, so take 20 minutes to half an hour to make them really sweet and nice. Add the wine and cook for a bit so the alcohol evaporates mostly
Pour in the stock, add some water (according to the instructions on the jars) add the bay leaves and the spices and leave to simmer for some time.
Taste and add seasoning if needed. If not, you can pour the soup into four soupbowls (heat resistant!) and put a piece of baguette in each bowl. Generously sprinkle with grated cheese and put in the oven to melt and get a nice brown crust O and make sure you remove the bayleaves too
Notes
For this recipe we used two jars of beef stock but only half the amount of water. One jar says to add 3 jars of water to it. We did that for the first but it made the taste quite bland, so we added another jar of stock in but left the water out.