Friday, 2 March 2012
French Onion Soup
Serves 8
Preparation & Cooking Time: 2 hours
Ingredients:
1. 1.5kg of red or yellow onions, peeled and sliced
2. 4-6 cloves garlic chopped
4. 3 TBS butter
5. 2 TBS olive oil
6. 1 cup red or white wine or beer
7. 2 litres beef or vegetable stock (traditionaly this dish is made of beef stock)
8. A couple of strigs of thyme
9. 5-8 bay leave
10. 4 slices of french baguette
11. A handful of grated cheese (gouda, parmesan, pecorino, gruyere) for each bowl
12. Salt & pepper to taste
Directions:
1. Heat oil and butter in a pot, and fry garlic until lightly golden.
2. Add onions and stir occasionally.
3. Add salt and pepper.
4. Add strigs of thyme and bay leaves and stir occasionally for 15-20 minutes. The browning, or caramelizing, of the onions brings out the sweetness in them.
5. Add wine and bring to rapid boil for 10 - 15 minutes to evaporate the alcohol.
6. Add stock and simmer for 1 hours.
7. Toast the bread.
8. In a individual crock pot or coffee mug, add onion soup.
9. Add a slice of bread on top and top with grated cheese.
10. Put the soup bowl on a pan (to catch any soup that may drip out on the side) and put them into the oven.
11. Bake 425 degrees F (220 degrees C) for 10 minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbling.
Additional Information:
I didn't have little soup crockpots, so I used mugs. Sorry for the messy looking pictures. I wasn't so good at keeping it neat. Hopefully i would be better at my next attempt :-) I made this for my Chinese neighbour, Yang Li, who came over this evening, and we had a mug each. She is interested to learn European cooking.
References:
http://www.squidoo.com/soup-recipe-onion
http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/french_onion_soup/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_onion_soup
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