This recipe is wicked good for entertaining.
French Onion Soup
Couple days out you can leisurely start the prep required for this fancy shmancy starter (or lunch).
I think of this recipe like an 80’s child – it takes care of its own self allowing you more creative license for your main and sides.
Let’s get to it.
Grab your crock pot.
Gather all these ingredients and start slicing!
Low and Slow French Onion Soup
French Onion soup in the slow cooker
- slow cooker
- 3 lbs Spanish Onions, thin slice (or regular cooking onions)
- 4 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp brown sugar
- 2 tsp sherry vinegar
- 1 tbsp worcestire
- pinch thyme
- 3 bay leaves
- 6 cups beef broth
- salt and pepper (to taste)
- gruyere or provolone (really any cheese will do)
- french baguette, sliced (day old)
Add thinly sliced onions to the slow cooker
Stir in butter, sugar 1 tsp salt, sherry vinegar and worcestire sauce
Cover, cook on low 12hrs or high 8hrs until onions are a deep brown colour
Stir 1/2 way through
Once onions are done, stir in remaining ingredients (except the cheese and baguette!)
Cook on high 3 hrs or low 4 hours
When done discard the bay leaves
Garnish with bread and cheese on top
Broil in oven proof dishes til melty or not!
This recipe is quite diverse as it can be that perfect thing to hit the spot on a cool fall day when you are huddled around the fire just trying to not die like this:
It is not unheard of to order French Onion Soup in a nice restaurant so why not include this recipe when you have dinner guests?
They will be impressed and you will be relaxed having done the majority of this the day before.
Gruyere IS the cheese of choice for French Onion Soup BUT provolone is a great 2nd choice.
As you can see here I used good ole regular sharp cheddar when I ran out of the provolone.
Still great!
Enjoy the process of this recipe.
We are all in a rush all the time and summer is super busy. With a little forethought you can do this ahead of time (on a Sunday or even overnight) and refrigerate the onions for a coupke days.
You can actually taste the advanced layers of flavour, its not your average broth.
As they say in French, Bon Apetit!
FTB 