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Classic French Onion Soup

French Onion Soup is a classic appetizer at juts about every restaurant nowadays, here’s a cheap recipe to make your own at home.

Ingredients:

Soup:

  • 4 large onions
  • 1 liter of beef stock (use home made onion stock to make a vegetarian soup)
  • 1 tbsp of flour
  • butter

Croutons:

  • 4 slices of bread
  • 1 clove of garlic
  • olive oil and butter

Directions:

Soup:

  1. Slice the onions into rings and sauté them gently in the butter (don’t use olive oil for this). Don’t rush this, let the onions brown very gently. If some brown bits appear on the bottom of your pan, don’t worry, these are the sugars from the onions that have caramelized. They’ll dissolve when you add the stock.
  2. Add the flour and stir. The flour will seem to have disappeared, but has been absorbed into the butter. This will give the soup its characteristic slight thickness.
  3. Add a quarter of the stock and stir for a while. Add another quarter of the stock and keep stirring. Repeat for the remaining stock.

Croutons:

  1. Crush and chop the garlic. Put the olive oil and butter into the pan and lightly sauté the garlic.
  2. Increase the heat a little and fry the slices of bread until golden.

Serve the soup with the croutons floating in it. You can fancy it up by putting a slice of Gruyere cheese on top and melting it under a broiler for a minute or 2.

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