Homemade French Onion Soup

Name: Homemade French Onion Soup
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 90 min
Total time: 120 min
Ingredients: 3 tablespoon unsalted butter; 3 large sweet onions about 2 pounds (peeled and thinly sliced); 2 teaspoons vegetable (or canola oil); 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt; 1/4 teaspoon black pepper; 1 cup white wine; 4 cups Beef Bone Broth (I used Kettle and Fire); 8 sprigs thyme; 2 bay leaves; 4 slices baguette (sliced into 1/2" rounds); 1 garlic clove (optional); 2 teaspoons sherry; 4 ounces gruyere cheese (grated)

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French Onion Soup. Crocks filled with sweet caramelized onion, rich, sherry-kissed stock, topped with a crusty baguette and reams of melty gruyere. This is one of life’s true pleasures. But to make it — and make it well, you need beef stock, made from scratch right? The kind of stock that comes from slow-roasting beef bones and simmering for days. While it’s not difficult, it requires time that most of us don’t have. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Not anymore. In a kind of serendipity, I’ve discovered Kettle and Fire real beef bone broth.

It’s made from grass-fed beef bones, and is slow simmered for more than 20 hours. This broth is paleo friendly and gluten-free, and it’s made from the same ingredients you would use in your own kitchen, if you had the time (check out the video, above). And it’s exactly what I needed for this Homemade French Onion Soup.

While French Onion Soup may seem like an indulgence with a cheese-laden crouton crowning the bowl, you may not know that the bone broth in this soup is incredibly nutritious.

Nutritional Benefits of Real Bone Broth

Real bone broth is made from parts of the animal we typically throw away (bones, marrow, joints) and it’s slow-simmered for 12-24 hours. Animal bones contain collagen and the long cooking process breaks down the collagen into a more digestible form — gelatin. It’s the gelatin that contains many amino acids like glutamine which helps repair your gut lining, detox your liver, and reduce joint inflammation.

Sourcing Real Bone Broth

Trouble is, you don’t get those benefits with the canned beef broth in the grocery store. I checked and one of the more popular brands – doesn’t even contain beef bones… much less carrots, onions, etc. and it has way to much sodium. The difference is huge!!! Read more about the nutritional benefits of bone broth here – or scroll down to see the rest of this recipe.

Homemade French onion soup starts with caramelized onions and I wrote a whole post on how to achieve perfect caramelization. In a nutshell… thinly slice the onions and simmer in a heavy pot until they give up their liquid and start to turn a golden color. After they’ve caramelized, add dry white wine 🙂 and simmer until nearly all the liquid has evaporated. Then add the bay leaves, thyme and the broth.

The soup simmers for another 15 or so minutes and while it’s cooking, Grate the gruyere and toast the sliced baguette rounds. A little dry sherry added to each of the bowls, gives the soup its familiar flavor.

Baking French Onion Soup

Top with crispy baguette slices and a generous sprinkle of shredded gruyere – then it’s into the oven for the last few minutes. This has got to be one of my all time favorite soups. I love the part crispy, part gooey, and part soup-laden bread, the stretchy cheese, tender onions and savory broth. If you’ve never made Homemade French Onion Soup yourself, what are you waiting for?

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