Traditional French Onion Soup
Is it really winter if you don’t have French Onion Soup? The answer is no. One of the best parts of winter is cozying up with a big bowl of soup and watching movies under a fuzzy blanket. Sure you can grab a can of soup from the store but nothing beats homemade soup.
French Onion Soup was always daunting to me; the bubbly browning cheese and the perfect sweet but savory flavor. But when I began making this recipe a while back, I realized how easy it is to make. The toughest part is to keep yourself from crying while cutting the onions up.
We like to use smoked gruyere cheese on top but you can swap that out with whatever type of cheese you like to pair with this soup. Many people use white or vidalia onions for this recipe but I think it alters the flavor too much. The red onion with the port wine provides just the right amount of savory and sweet. Also, the trick is to sauté the onions and let them sweat. After they’ve sweated enough and are starting to be translucent thats when you add the port wine and cooked it down.
You can make this French Onion Soup in any type of sauce pan and oven safe bowls but we highly recommend to use a nice dutch oven to make the soup. It really brings the flavor of the onions our while they cook and sweat. We love both this dutch oven and this one too!
Truth be told, one of the main reasons we made this soup was because one of our subscribers requested a recipe for french onion soup. The way I can tell this recipe is delicious is after I made it Phillip came home from work not very hungry. He proceeded to polish off an entire bowl and start to eat some of mine.
Traditional French Onion Soup
Recipe details
- 4 Servings
- Prep time: 10 Minutes Cook time: 30 Minutes Total time: 40 min
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