French Onion Soup Recipe

What would you like to top your French onion soup with? In the case of this French onion soup recipe, it’s not only bread but three different types of cheese as well, broiled as layering for the each serving. It’s a cream soup with some character.

Some onion soup recipes will take you hours, if not a day, to prepare, which defeats the purpose of soups as easy-to-prepare dishes for satisfying hungry and cold stomachs.

However, you’ll discover that this recipe only takes a few minutes to make that includes ingredients found in your own kitchen – except maybe for the provolone and parmesan cheese. Overall, the ingredients should just be in your collection of condiments.

You will need the following ingredients to make this mouthwatering onion soup recipe:

• ½ cup unsalted butter,
• 2 tablespoons olive oil,
• 4 cups sliced onions,
• four 10.5-ounce cans beef broth,
• 2 tablespoons dry sherry (but this is optional),
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme,
• salt and pinch of pepper to season,
• 4 slices French bread,
• 4 slices provolone cheese,
• 2 slices Swiss cheese diced, and a quarter of a cup grated Parmesan cheese.

For your own version of this onion soup recipe, try any cheese available in your refrigerator. Now that you have all the ingredients, you can begin by melting butter with the olive oil over medium heat in an 8-quart stockpot.

Sauté onions until they are wilt and translucent but take care not to burn them. Next, pour the beef broth, thyme, and sherry. By this time, you can already add in salt and pepper to taste, and simmer for 30 minutes.

While waiting for that, you can prepare the oven broiler for the grand finale of broiling cheese on top of the bread layer.

Carefully ladle soup into serving bowls that are oven-safe and place a slice of French bread on top of the slices. If you prefer, the bread may be broken into large crumbs.

Next, on each serving, place a slice of provolone cheese, half a slice of diced Swiss, and a tablespoon of Parmesan cheese. Finally, put a cookie sheet under the bowls and broil in the preheated oven until you see the cheese melting and slightly browned.

This onion soup recipe provides 122% of saturated fat because of the cheese but its otherwise nutritious, too. It has significant levels of Vitamin A, C, Niacin, Vitamin B6, as well as calcium, thiamin, magnesium, iron, and folate per bowl of serving.