The Best French Onion Soup!!
"I love this soup! I could eat the whole thing! This tastes like what you would eat at a nice restaurant!"
photo by Kim127
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 3 -4 cups onions, sliced fine, into rings
- 1⁄4 cup butter
- 1⁄2 cup brown sugar
- 1 (14 ounce) can good beef stock
- salt and cracked pepper, to taste
- 1⁄8 - 1⁄4 cup cooking sherry
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 6 slices crusty bread
- 1⁄8 cup melted butter, garlic powder (to taste)
- 6 slices provolone cheese (or swiss cheese)
- 6 teaspoons shredded monterey jack cheese
directions
- Saute onions in butter in a dutch oven. If not enough butter add more, 2 TB at a time until enough. Cook over med-high heat until onions begin to brown and caramelize. Add brown sugar, add stock and mix well. Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer 25 minute season with salt and pepper. Add sherry and Worcestershire. If not enough liquid add some water using the beef stock can.
- Make bread croutons. Heat oven to 350°F Cut bread to fit soup cups and place bread on cookie sheet. Drizzle with butter-garlic mixture and bake till crispy, about 7-10 minute.
- Put soup into soup cups (ovenproof bowls) and put bread slice on top of each. Top each with slice of cheese. Then top each slice with heaping tsp of shredded jack cheese. Set soup cups in oven on cookie sheet and broil for 1-3 min or till cheese melts.
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The recipe is easy to follow but I have to agree with other reviewers that this is a lot more sugar than needed. I followed the recipe as written but after tasting it I tripled the juice and added more salt. That seemed to help quite a bit. Next time I will just use 1-2 Tbs of brown sugar. Thanks for the recipe -
very good soup, i only used about a teaspoon of brown sugar and that was plenty, and my recipe only served about two people, not six to eight, over all, it was very good -
This recipe was very easy to follow and the onions came out wonderful, but with all the brown sugar it was way to sweet for us. I'm sorry about that, I've never had an onion soup so sweet before and I've eaten it at every chance. Its a good recipe but I would omit most of the brown sugar next time if not all. Sorry Jessica.
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This was such a pretty dish...I wish I had a camera. THis was my first time to make onion soup from scratch. My brown sugar was dark so I only used half of what was called for. I think next time I will dice my onions, I think it would be a little easier to eat. Quick and cheap, too! I loved this soup! -
I have always made o.k. onion soup until now. Tonight my whole family thought that this was the best onion soup I have ever made. This is deffinite keeper!
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