Serves: 4
Gloriously rich and sweet, with just the right amount of acidity, French onion soup defies the modest reputation of its main ingredient.
French onion soup
Gloriously rich and sweet, with just the right amount of acidity, French onion soup defies the modest reputation of its main ingredient.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 1.3 litres of beef stock
- 50 g butter
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 kg onion halved and thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup preferably golden colour for its delicate flavour
- 1 tsp sugar
- 4 garlic cloves thinly sliced
- 250 ml dry white wine
- 4-8 slices of French bread
- 140 g gruyere finely grated
Instructions
- Melt 50g butter with 1 tbsp olive oil in a large heavy-based pan. Add 1kg halved and thinly sliced onions and fry with the lid on for 10 mins until soft.
- Sprinkle 1 tsp sugar and 2 tbsp maple syrup and cook for 20 mins, stirring frequently until caramelised. The onions should be golden.
- Add 4 thinly sliced garlic cloves for the final few minutes of the onions’ cooking time and stir well.
- Increase the heat and keep stirring as you gradually add 250ml dry white wine, followed by 1.3l beef stock. Cover and simmer for 15-20 mins.
- To serve, turn on the grill and toast 4-8 slices of French bread. Ladle the soup into heatproof bowls.
- Put a slice or two of toast on top of the bowls of soup, and pile on 140g finely grated gruyere cheese and grill until melted.
Fantastic onion soup .Magnifique !
With this and at least one other recent recipe listing maple syrup as an ingredient, could this recipe be renamed as French-Canadian Onion Soup. It is certainly not French Onion Soup.