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Recipe : *** Onion Soup

Onion Soup
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Course:
Appetizer

Practical information

  • Prep time
    20 min
  • Cooking
    45 min
  • Ready in
    1 h 05
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
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Categories

Budget:
friendly
Difficulty:
easy recipe
Category:
Vegetable recipes
Tags:
onion, soup

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 32 thin slices of 'baguette' bread
  • table salt
  • 1 pinch of ginger powder
  • half a pinch of thyme flower
  • 1 kg sweet onions
  • 400 g grated gruyère cheese
  • 100 g butter
  • 30 g wheat flour
  • 2.5 l cold of meat (veal or chicken) base for sauce (you can use already prepared dry cubes)
  • 250 ml red port (optional)

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    In a large casserole dish, make gently, slowly (no browning) melt butter then onions on the hob. Add salt and ginger and let it stew during 30 minutes covered with a lid and stir from time to time
  • 2
    You have just the necessary time to dry the bread (you can do it the day before): Bake in a 300ºF oven for 30 min.
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    Add the flour and stir with a wooend spoon
  • 4
    Pour the cold meat base (stock-broth) and fine tune the seasoning when the stock is boiling. Let it cook during 15 minutes
  • 5
    Heat the oven at 450ºF
  • 6
    In invidual bowls that can bear high heat in the oven, pour half an inch high of Port (not compulsory but highly recomended), then distribute the onions taken with a skimmer then the stock. Put 4 slices of dry bread in each bowl, cover with grated cheese and place into the oven until it is well browned.
  • Ready !



 

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