French Onion Soup

French Onion Soup
French Onion Soup might be just the Mediterranean recipe you are searching for. One serving contains 600 calories, 20g of protein, and 11g of fat. This recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. If you have wine, kosher salt and pepper, parmesan, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert. It works well as a rather inexpensive main course for Autumn.

Instructions

1
Melt the butter in a heavy-bottomed Dutch oven or large saucepan over medium-low heat.
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Add the onions; sprinkle with salt, cover and cook 10 minutes to get them going. Uncover, add the thyme and bay leaf, and continue cooking until the onions are deeply caramelized, 1 to 11/2 hours.
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Turn the heat up to medium and sprinkle the onions with the flour. Stir and allow the flour to cook, 1 to 2 minutes. Deglaze the pan with the wine and allow to reduce.
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Add the beef stock, chicken stock and lemon juice, and simmer, about 10 minutes. Taste the soup, and add salt and pepper as needed.
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Meanwhile, preheat the broiler to high. Ladle the soup into 4 ovenproof crocks.
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Mix the Swiss and Parmesan in a small bowl. Top each crock with a baguette slice and evenly distribute the cheese on top of each.
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Place the crocks under the broiler just until the cheese is bubbly and browning, about 1 minute.
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Serve hot.
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From Food Network Kitchens: after further testing and to ensure the best results this recipe has been altered from what was in the actual episode.
DifficultyExpert
Ready In1 h, 50 m.
Servings6
Health Score22
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