You can never have too many main course recipes, so give Unbelievable Onion Garlic Soup With Cheese Crisps It is perfect for Autumn. If you have champagne, olive oil, onion, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 1 hour and 50 minutes.
Instructions
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In a heavy bottom pot melt oil and butter over high heat add the brown sugar and the onions from the vadillas to the red onions lower heat to medium. Cook slowly stirring occasionally until caramelization begins at which point the onions are cooked until melting the sugars in the onions, thus causing browning. About 30 minutes.
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Brown Sugar
Red Onion
Butter
Onion
Cooking Oil
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Pot
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Add the shallots and garlic cooking for 5 more minutes. If you have time go 30 minutes more of cooking to bring out the complex flavors of the onions sugars.
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Shallot
Garlic
Onion
3
Sprinkle the flour over the caramelized onions and stir in completely.
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Caramelized Onions
All Purpose Flour
4
Add thyme, bay leaf, rosemary, salt and pepper.Deglaze with sherry and champagne.
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Salt And Pepper
Champagne
Bay Leaves
Rosemary
Sherry
Thyme
5
Add broth and simmer 20 minutes.
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Broth
6
Remove bay leaf.
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Bay Leaves
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Place the soup crocks or ramekin on a shallow baking pan. Soup evenly into ramekins.
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Soup
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Baking Pan
Ramekin
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Place bread lightly on top and place cheese on bread.On the baking pan right along side the ramekins but not touching sprinkle the parmesan cheese in 6 piles.Broiled in a ramekin until gruyere is melted and bubbly. Keep an eye on it! The cheese on the soup may be done before the parmesan crisps are. So remove the soup while the crisp brown.They will be golden and soft when done.
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Parmesan
Gruyere
Cheese
Soup
Bread
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Baking Pan
Ramekin
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Remove gently to a dish and they will crisp up before you know it!
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Serve along side the soup which is garnished with chives and scallions.