French Onion Soup
Is there anything more comfortable than a hot bowl of French onion soup on a chilly day? Especially with a thick slice of toasted bread slathered in melty Gruyere and a generous helping of caramelized onions.
How to Make the Best French Onion Soup
A decent French onion soup must have two key ingredients.
The stock is the first. The quality of your soup will be determined by the stock you use. This soup is typically cooked using beef stock, but good beef stock can be difficult to come by and costly to create.
If you’re going to use boxed stock, be sure you taste it first! Don’t use it if you don’t like the taste. (Save the scraps after cooking a lot of beef or beef roasts and freeze them to make stock later.)
The second most critic al step is to caramelize the onions properly. It will take at least 40 minutes to caramelize the number of onions required for this dish. Caramelization is a chemical reaction that takes place when the sugars in onions reach a specific temperature.