French Onion Soup

Name: French Onion Soup
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean, French, European
Ingredients: 595 grams cans each) condensed beef broth; 2 Tbsps butter or margarine; 1 dried bay leaf; 4 slices (3/4 to 1 inch thick) French bread; 113 grams Gruyère, Swiss or mozzarella cheese; 4 mediums onions; 59 milliliters grated Parmesan cheese; 0 teaspoons pepper; 0 teaspoons dried thyme leaves; 355 milliliters water

French Onion Soup might be just the Mediterranean recipe you are searching for. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 15% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 19g of protein, 15g of fat, and a total of 399 calories. It works well as a rather inexpensive main course for Autumn. Head to the store and pick up condensed beef broth, pepper, bay leaf, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the pepper you could follow this main course with the Easy Peppermint Dessert as a dessert.

Instructions

Peel and cut the onions into slices to measure 4 cups. In a 4-quart nonstick Dutch oven, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Stir in onions to coat with butter. Cook uncovered 10 minutes, stirring every 3 to 4 minutes.

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Onion

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Dutch Oven

Reduce heat to medium-low. Cook uncovered 35 to 40 minutes longer, stirring well every 5 minutes, until onions are deep golden brown (onions will shrink during cooking).

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Onion

Stir in broth, water, pepper, thyme and bay leaf.

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Bay Leaves

Pepper

Broth

Thyme

Water

Heat to boiling over high heat. Once mixture is boiling, reduce heat just enough so mixture bubbles gently. Cover with lid; simmer 15 minutes. Meanwhile, shred the Gruyre cheese by rubbing it across the largest holes of a grater to measure 1 cup; set aside.

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Cheese

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Grater

You may need to move the oven rack so it is near the broiler. Set the oven control to broil. On a cookie sheet, place the bread slices. Broil with tops about 5 inches from heat 1 to 2 minutes or until golden brown. Turn bread over; broil 1 to 2 minutes longer until golden brown.

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Bread

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Place toasted bread in 4 ovenproof bowls or individual ceramic casseroles (do not use glass, which cannot withstand heat of broiler and may break).

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Bread

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Bowl

Remove bay leaf from soup. Ladle soup into bowls. Top with Gruyre cheese.

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Bay Leaves

Cheese

Soup

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Bowl

Ladle

Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

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Parmesan

Place bowls in pan with shallow sides.

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Bowl

Frying Pan

Broil soup bowls with tops about 5 inches from heat 1 to 2 minutes or just until cheese is melted and golden brown. Watch carefully so cheese does not burn.

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Cheese

Soup

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Bowl

Serve with additional French bread if desired.

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French Bread