🏷️ Category: lunch
🌍 Cuisine: Mediterranean
⭐ Difficulty: Medium
⏱️ Time: 45 min
📝 Introduction
Warm up with this classic French Onion Soup, a Mediterranean-inspired comfort dish that's both hearty and elegant. Ready in just 45 minutes, this medium-difficulty recipe serves four with rich flavors from caramelized onions, savory beef broth, and a hint of sherry. Topped with crusty baguette slices and melted Gruyère cheese, each bowl offers 412 calories, 18g of protein, and 24g of fat, covering 14% of daily vitamin and mineral needs. Perfect for a cozy lunch, it's budget-friendly at $2.94 per serving and loved by many for its depth of flavor and cheesy finish.
🥘 Ingredients
• butter0.25 cup
• onions4
• flour0.25 Tsp
• sherry0.5 cup
• beef broth5 cups
• thyme3 sprigs
• parsley3 sprigs
• bay leaf1
• salt and pepper4 servings
• crusty baguette4 slices
• gruyere cheese1 cup
👨🍳 Cooking Steps
1
Preheat oven to 400
2
In a large Dutch oven, melt butter over medium heat.
3
Add onions to the pot and sprinkle with flour. Reduce heat to medium low and cook for 45 minutes stirring occasionally. If the onions are cooking too quickly, reduce heat.
4
When the onions are tender and golden in colour, de-glaze the pan with sherry.
5
Pour beef broth into the pot and bring to a boil over medium heat.
6
Add herbs, salt and pepper to taste.
7
Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
8
Spray a cookie sheet with cooking spray. Butter slices of French bread and bake in the oven for 5-10 minutes until very dry. Set aside.
9
Remove herb stalks and bay leaf.
10
Ladle soup portions into four oven safe ramekins. Top with crusty French bread and sprinkle with cheese.
11
Place ramekins on a cookie sheet and bake uncovered at 400 for 5-10 minutes until cheese is bubbling. Broil for one minute more to brown the top.
12
Serve warm.
13
Serves 4
