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French

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Food Safari

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Soup

Key Ingredient
Cheese
Flour
Onion
Wine

French onion soup

Cuisine: French Created by France Vidal

Ingredients

60g unsalted butter
4 -5 brown onions, peeled and finely sliced
50g flour
2 litres water
1 glass white wine
100g French Gruyère cheese, ½ cut into cubes and ½ grated
1 baguette
Salt and pepper

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Preparation

Melt butter in a heavy saucepan, add onion then cook for 25 minutes until the onion is deep golden brown and beginning to caramelize. Stir from time to time.

Add flour and stir for 2 minutes.

Add water and wine and season with salt and pepper.

Add cubes of cheese, stir and bring to the boil.

Cover and simmer for 20- 25 minutes. Check seasoning.

Slice the baguette, sprinkle with the remaining cheese and grill until the cheese is melted.

Put the soup in a serving bowl and serve with the toasted baguette on top.

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13 Apr 2012 10:54 AEST

hey

hefield

cool

keep walking on my friend

09 Feb 2012 01:00 AEST

iamac

Melbourne

yummy

I have cooked this soup but I put beef stock instead of water and also added thyme and sherry instead of wine. happy cooking.

06 Jul 2011 08:11 AEST

tina

Little Bay NSW

Superb!

The best ! easy to prepare and very enjoyable ! just substitute water with campbell's beef stock .

22 Mar 2011 11:01 AEST

Hez

Adelaide

Easiest and most rewarding soup ever!!

I just wanted to let everybody know that this soup is extremely delicious and very very easy to make. The Gruyere cheese is the star of this dish as it gives the soup its rich and creamy flavours but also adds to the texture as well. It's hard to believe that these simple ingredients can create such a delicious meal!! One of the best soups I have ever made yet so simple!!

14 Jul 2010 04:01 AEST

Anastasia

Craigieburn VIC

Yum!

I have made this soup before and I added beef stock rather then just plain water. I didn't use the cheese because I didn't have any or wine because I don't drink, and it tasted great. I will be making it again tonight and include the cheese (jarlesburg) and the toasted bread with the cheese.

08 Jul 2010 03:51 AEST

Artur

Lane Cove

The best ever

Made it last week. Instead water I cooked with light chicken stock (home made). It takes a bit more than 25 minutes. The final result was amazing. Will be making again and again during winter. Awesome.

05 Jul 2010 07:14 AEST

Gooey

Braddon

Use beef stock instead of water...double & grate the cheese

I've just put down my spoon...yum! I also found it to be too watery and flavourless to start off with. However, I added 1 1/2 beef stock cubes, and 100g of cheese whilst I was checking the seasoning...and it took on alot more body. The beef stock helped the seasoning so much. Also, I made sure I used a really good european butter which made the onion beautiful and creamy. I couldn't find french guyrere in my supermarket so used swiss...would love to know what the difference in flavour is.

26 Apr 2010 03:18 AEST

Singapore

Disappointing!

I tried this last night - was very bland and watery! I love the TV show and got the recipe book as a present, but some of the recipes just don't taste as good as you think they would (and it's not my cooking!!). I wonder if they test the recipes before publishing them?

11 Mar 2010 04:55 AEST

Hettie

Yarraville

Gruyere Cheese

If you find French Gruyere generally an expensive cheese to use , Mainland now do a Gruyere and its very affordable for a 200g block. I found it at Coles. Its very tasty and worked super well with this recipie.

18 Dec 2009 01:42 AEST

Anon

anon

Try with red wine

Have not tried this yet but thought this classic french onion soup is done with red wine? I tried this from a cookbook recipe that uses only red wine (no water or stock) and it was delicious, just a suggestion.

24 Apr 2009 06:26 AEST

Meils

Marrickville

Cheese!

I like most others am making this with veggie stock and am finishing it off with some finely chopped chervil. It smells amazing, I'll report back on the flavour. Kat - Use a dry white for this recipe - a blend is fine. Charlenne - it shouldn't make too much of a differece as the dominant flavour is definitely the onion. Just make sure you get a "good" Swiss and not packet singles or something!

23 Apr 2009 02:16 AEST

kat

what wine?

I made this without cheese or wine, definitely tasted better the next day! what type of white wine is good for cooking?

23 Apr 2009 10:14 AEST

Nick

Melbourne

needs stock

like Fiona i found it very watery and bland. i followed the recipe exactly but next time I'll try more onions and 1 1/2 litres of a good vegetable stock not 2 litres of water. i haven't given up hope on Food Safari yet!

23 Apr 2009 07:25 AEST

Mathieu Tozer

Paris 2e

Yum

This turned out amazing! I ended up adding less water and more wine, and more cheese too.

20 Apr 2009 05:25 AEST

Fiona

Bellevue Hill

Needs Stock

I thought i would try this version but found it definately needs stock instead of water. Did any one else find it too watery and a bit tasteless?

19 Apr 2009 05:46 AEST

S&J

Brunswick

Yummy

Very tasty! I added stock instead of water for extra flavour and a little bit more wine! Might also try with red wine next time...?

16 Apr 2009 10:24 AEST

Corey

Morningside

Made it, will make it again :D

Delicious. I was unsure whilst eating whether I had made it correctly; my result was quite clear (although still a good brown) and the soup on the program looked richer. I didn't have butter or white wine, so I subbed olive oil and beer for an Aussie touch ^^ I'll be making this again, so simple but so good!

16 Apr 2009 03:20 AEST

charlenne

australind

gruyere cheeese

i can't seem to find the french guyrere only swiss does anyone know how much difference it will make to the taste ?? i'd be interested to find out.

04 Dec 2008 07:01 AEST

Janey

sale

yum

Ooh yummy Ill be making this 1

22 Oct 2008 01:58 AEST

jasmine garland

marrar

nice

very filling and beautiful i really like it how the onions melt in my mouth thaks for broardcasting that recipe and many other.

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