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French Onion Soup

Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 90 mins
Total Time 1 hr 40 mins
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Servings: 6
Description

We ate this while we watched Midnight Sky, a terrible space movie with George Clooney. Heidi peppered Shaun with questions. Chuck snored while CJ critiqued the numerous plot holes. Grandma Jan loved it. Luckily, we had this delicious soup to get us through.

Ingredients
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 large onion, red (thinly sliced)
  • 2 large onion, sweet (thinly sliced)
  • 48 ounce chicken broth
  • 14 ounce beef broth
  • 1/2 cup red wine
  • 1 tablespoon worcestershire sauce
  • 2 sprig parsley, fresh
  • 1 sprig thyme, fresh
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • salt (to taste)
  • ground black pepper (to taste)
  • 1 loaf baguettes
  • 12 slices gruyere cheese (or Swiss cheese)
  • 1 1/2 cups Asiago Cheese (or Mozzarella cheese)
  • paprika, ground (to taste, optional)
Instructions
  1. 1
    Melt butter in a large pot over medium-high heat. Stir in salt, red onions, and sweet onions. Cook 35-60 minutes, stirring frequently, until onions are caramelized and almost syrupy.
  2. 2
    Mix chicken broth, beef broth, red wine, and Worcestershire sauce into pot. Bundle the parsley, thyme, and bay leaf with twine and place in pot. Simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove and discard herbs. Reduce the heat to low, mix in vinegar and season with salt and pepper. Cover and keep over low heat to stay hot while you prepare the bread.
  3. 3
    Preheat the oven broiler. Arrange bread slices on a baking sheet and broil 3 minutes, turning once, until well-toasted on both sides. Remove from heat; do not turn off broiler.
  4. 4
    Arrange 6 large oven safe bowls or crocks on a rimmed baking sheet. Fill each bowl 2/3 full with hot soup. Top each bowl with a layer of toasted bread, a layer of Gruyere cheese, and 1/4 cup of Asiago or Mozzarella. Sprinkle paprika if desired.
  5. 5
    Broil 5 minutes, or until bubbly and golden brown. As it softens, the cheese will cascade over the sides of the crock and form a beautifully melted crusty seal.
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