Maura's French Onion Soup

Total Time: 3 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 medium yellow onions, sliced into thin rings
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup red wine
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 3 (13 ounce) cans beef broth
• 1 teaspoon dark soy sauce or 1 teaspoon gravy master
• 2 beef bouillon cubes
• 1 dash dried rosemary
• 1 dash pepper
• 2 bay leaves

Recipe

• 1 cook the onions in butter over medium/low heat for 20 minutes or until browned.
• 2 (you want the onions to be a golden color, but not black!) remove from heat, and set aside.
• 3 mix sugar, flour, a few dashes of pepper& rosemary, and 2/3 cup of the wine into a paste mixture.
• 4 add this to the onions, and mix well.
• 5 put the onion mixture into the crockpot.
• 6 add broth and bay leaves.
• 7 stir soup mixture very gently. (stirring doesn't have to be overly thorough... just enough so that the onions are no longer a paste.)
• 8 cook on "high" for 2 1/2 hours.
• 9 add soy sauce, buillon cubes, and remaining 1/3 cup of wine.
• 10 cover and continue cooking for 30 minutes.
• 11 ladle into soup bowls and enjoy!