French Onion Soup

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Gooey, bubbling food and caramelized onions surely marque French bulb crockery enticing, but it is the banal that makes the quality betwixt a large crockery and a lackluster one. Use the precise champion you tin get your hands on; beauteous overmuch immoderate rich, full-bodied banal volition enactment (chicken, turkey, veal, beef, duck) and that means not utilizing store-bought worldly that comes successful cartons.

One banal that truly shines is smoked chickenhearted stock. To marque it, simply usage chickenhearted banal successful the drip cookware underneath chickens being smoked and roasted connected a charcoal grill.

Gruyere food (from Switzerland) is mostly the go-to food for bulb crockery for its distinctive nutty tang. It is rather costly, but a bully effect tin beryllium had with utilizing a half-and-half substance of Gruyere and fontal cheese, an Italian semi-soft melting cheese.

Which intoxicant you usage for this look is truly up to you. I deliberation larboard vino provides the close level of assemblage and caramel notes that heighten the onions the best.

The crockery tin beryllium made good successful beforehand and frozen. The baguette toasts tin beryllium made respective days up and stored successful an airtight container.

From The Process columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

  • 1 baguette, chopped into 1/2-inch slices
  • 2 pounds (4 medium) yellowish onions, peeled, halved from apical to bottommost and sliced into 1/4-inch half-moons
  • 4 caller bay leaves
  • 2 tablespoons canola oil
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, chopped into tiny cubes
  • Salt
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 1/2 spoon bulb powder
  • 8 cups homemade veal, beef, chickenhearted banal oregon smoked chickenhearted banal (see headnote)
  • 1/3 cupful larboard (may substitute Madeira, sherry oregon adust vermouth)
  • 1 spoon chopped caller thyme leaves
  • 2 cups grated Gruyère cheese
  • 2 cups grated fontal cheese

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    440

  • Fat

    25 g

  • Saturated Fat

    13 g

  • Carbohydrates

    29 g

  • Sodium

    670 mg

  • Cholesterol

    95 mg

  • Protein

    21 g

  • Fiber

    2 g

  • Sugar

    6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From The Process columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published December 25, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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