Make French Onion Soup at Home
This French Onion soup is a modern spin on the classic recipe in that it uses a few pantry ingredients and your biggest investment is the time it takes to cook the onions. Full of rich flavor and topped with garlic bread or plain crackers, this soup is a winner!
I was reading through one of my many vintage cookbooks recently and came across this recipe for Onion Soup Gratinee’. We love onions at my house! We especially love French Onion soup, so I read through this recipe to find out what a grantinee’ was and if this was a soup recipe I wanted to try.
The recipe didn’t explain what a gratinee’ was. So like any good modern researcher, I Googled it. In short, I learned that its a French word that loosely translates to “au gratin” (which I thought was a French word).
After a little more reading, I discovered that gratinee’ or au gratin is a cooking method that involves topping a dish with bread crumbs and cheese. If you’re really curious to learn more about it, I suggest you jump over to Google and check out the results.
Make It A Meal:
Usually a cup of French Onion Soup is served as an appetizer or part of a meal. To round out the meal, serve a salad and a pasta dish. Of course, you’ll want to top your soup with some croutons!
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Variations:
Replace the butter with olive oil and the beef broth with vegetable broth for a vegetarian option. Toss in some garlic.
If you’re being traditional you can top this soup with a handful of shredded cheese and pop it under the broiler for a minute to melt. However, I was out of cheese (can you believe that!?!) and those pretty glass bowls I’m using are not oven safe.
You absolutely need oven safe bowls if you’re putting them under the broiler. Please for safety’s sake.
Look at those onion slices floating in the broth! Can’t you just taste the flavor?!
The original recipe was in Cooking With T-Fal, copyright 1993. I modified the original recipe slightly. The original recipe on page 53 called for vermouth and brandy. I didn’t have any wine in the house (can you believe that! – it’s definitely grocery shopping time!), so decided to try the recipe without. I didn’t notice that the soup seemed to be missing anything.
I used plain yellow onions. If you wanted to jazz up the flavor some, you could mix up the variety of onions you use – add some Vidalia, red, white and yellow all together!
About the Book:
Published to assist owners of T-Fal brand cookware use their new pots and pans, this book is 112 pages long. Its full of recipes for all meals and from several cuisines.
Table Of Contents:
Letter from T-Fal
Information – Before You Begin
Chef’s Cuisine
American Potpourri
French Cuisine
Italian Cuisine
South of the Border / Caribbean Cuisine
Asian / Pan Pacific Cuisines
Index
This recipe is very easy, I’ve always loved French Onion soup, and it’s a guarantee that I”ll order it when I’m out to dinner. My husband loved this recipe, too. In fact, I almost didn’t have enough left to take the photos for this post, he was so enthusiastic about eating it!
You’ll be able to make homemade French Onion Soup, any time by using this recipe. Just make sure you have some white, melty cheese on hand to top it with for authentic French Onion soup.
Good cheeses for melting: mozzarella, Gouda or Swiss. You can use slices or shredded cheese to top your soup.
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French Onion Soup Recipe
Ingredients:
- 5-6 Onions, thinly sliced
- 3 TB butter
- 1 tsp Olive Oil
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Sugar
- 3 TB Flour
- 8 cups Beef Broth
Recipe Directions:
- Cook onions in butter and oil over medium heat for 15 minutes.
- Stir onions, add salt & sugar. Cook 30-40 minutes on medium high heat.
- Stir in flour and remove from heat.
- Add boiling beef broth.
- Simmer 30-40 minutes.
Approximate Nutritional Information:
Servings Per Recipe: 6. Amount Per Serving: Calories: 145g, Total Fat: 2g, Cholesterol: 1mg, Sodium: 819mg, Total Carbs: 28g, Protein: 5g.
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