Restaurant-Style French Onion Soup

Name: Restaurant-Style French Onion Soup
Prep time: 1 h 35 min
Cook time: 1 h 35 min
Total time: 1 h 35 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Mediterranean, French, European
Ingredients: 2 liters beef broth; 118 milliliters butter; 1 teaspoon dried thyme; 2 Tbsps all-purpose flour; 1 French baguette, cut into 1/2-inch thick slices; 2 cloves garlic, crushed; 1 teaspoons ground black pepper, or to taste; 6 servings olive oil, or as needed; 8 onions, sliced; 6 slices provolone cheese; 237 milliliters red wine; 1 teaspoons salt, or to taste; 1 Tbsp sherry; 6 slices Swiss cheese

Restaurant-Style French Onion Soup might be just the main course you are searching for. One portion of this dish contains about 24g of protein, 47g of fat, and a total of 705 calories. This recipe covers 21% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 6. This recipe is typical of Mediterranean cuisine. Head to the store and pick up baguette, butter, wine, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the flour you could follow this main course with the Apple Tart with Caramel Sauce as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 35 minutes. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Autumn.

Instructions

Melt butter in a large soup pot over medium heat. Cook and stir onions, garlic, salt, black pepper, and thyme until onions are soft and brown, about 30 minutes.

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Black Pepper

Butter

Garlic

Onion

Thyme

Salt

Soup

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Pot

Pour in red wine and sherry; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer until you can no longer smell alcohol cooking off, about 15 more minutes.

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Red Wine

Alcohol

Sherry

Sprinkle onion mixture with flour and stir until coated; cook for 10 minutes.

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All Purpose Flour

Onion

Pour in broth, stir to blend in flour, and simmer until slightly thickened, about 20 minutes.

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Broth

All Purpose Flour

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) while soup is simmering. Arrange bread slices on a baking sheet and drizzle with olive oil.

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Olive Oil

Bread

Soup

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Baking Sheet

Oven

Toast the baguette slices in the preheated oven until golden brown, 12 to 14 minutes, turning the bread over halfway through cooking.

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Baguette

Bread

Toast

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Oven

Remove toast and set aside.

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Toast

Set an oven rack about 8 inches from the heat source and turn on the oven's broiler.

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Oven

Ladle soup into 6 oven-proof crocks, filling them about 3/4 full.

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Soup

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Ladle

Oven

Place 1 or 2 bread slices into the bowls and top each with a slice of Swiss cheese and a slice of provolone. Carefully place filled crocks onto a sturdy baking sheet.

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Swiss Cheese