Food & Wine
French onion soup
There’s nothing like the taste of cheesy, delicious authentic French onion soup to help you keep warm this winter.
Serves: Six to eight
Ingredients:
- 5 cups of thinly sliced yellow onions
- 2 tablespoons of butter
- 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
- ½ teaspoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 3 tablespoons of flour
- 1 cup of dry wine (red or white)
- 6 cups of beef stock
- 1 bay leaf
- ½ teaspoon of ground sage
- Salt, pepper
- 3 tablespoons of cognac
- 340g of Swiss cheese, grated
- 115g of grated parmesan cheese
- ½ yellow onion
- 6 to 8 slices of French bread
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil
Method:
- On medium heat, add cooking oil and butter to a stock pot.
- Add sliced onions and stir.
- Let cook until translucent, (around 20 minutes) add sugar and salt, then raise heat to medium high to caramelize the onions.
- Reduce heat to medium low and add flour, stir.
- Cook for two to three minutes until brown.
- Add one cup of stock. Stir well.
- Add remaining stock, wine, bay leaf, and sage and allow to simmer for half an hour.
- Heat oven to 160°C. Drizzle olive oil over bread (on both sides) and cook in oven on a baking sheet for 15 minutes each side.
- Add cognac and the half onion (grated) into the soup. Add salt and pepper.
- Remove bay leaf from soup and transfer into soup casserole dishes.
- Place some of the Swiss cheese into the soups, stirring.
- Place French bread slices in soups and sprinkle remaining cheese atop, thickly.
- Cook for around 30 minutes, then set oven to broil to allow cheese to brown. Let cool.