French Onion Soup

Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 90 g butter
• 4 large onions
• 1 garlic clove
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 2 (470 g) beef consomme
• 3 cups water
• salt
• pepper
• 1/3 cup dry red wine
• 1 tablespoon dry sherry
• 125 g butter, extra
• 1 garlic clove, extra
• 1 loaf french bread
• 250 g swiss cheese
• 60 g grated parmesan cheese

Recipe

• 1 heat butter in a large pan, add peeled and thinly sliced onions and crushed garlic.
• 2 sauté gently until onions are golden brown.
• 3 add flour, stir until combined.
• 4 add sugar, undiluted soup, water, salt, pepper and red wine. stir until combined.
• 5 bring to boil, reduce heat, simmer covered for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• 6 add sherry, simmer for a further 5 minutes.
• 7 cut bread into 1 cm slices, you need 12 slices.
• 8 melt extra butter in a pan, add crushed garlic, stir until combined.
• 9 brush bread slices on both sides with butter mixture.
• 10 place under hot grill until golden brown on one side. do not brown other side.
• 11 pour soup into large ovenprrof bowl, place bread slices, toasted side down.
• 12 sprinkle combined grated cheeses over bread.
• 13 place soup bowl under hot grill until cheese is melted and golden brown (if you don't have a grill big enough to hold your soup bowl, sprinkle grated cheese on untoasted side of the bread, pressing cheese down firmly onto bread slices, place under a hot grill until melted and golden brown).
• 14 place bread in soup bowls, pour soup over.