Mike's French Onion Soup
Mike's French Onion Soup

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mike's french onion soup. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

After ordering this soup many times at restaurants, this recipe reproduces precisely what French Onion Soup is supposed to taste like. Look, French Onion Soup a challenging soup to eat: chunks of chewy cheese and soggy bread floating on top.but it's supposed to be that way. Great recipe for Mike's French Onion Soup.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mike's french onion soup using 16 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mike's French Onion Soup:
  1. Take 2 EX LG Vidalia Onions [no substitutions]
  2. Make ready 2 Coves Garlic [smashed & fine chopped]
  3. Prepare 1/3 Cup Green Onions [small chop]
  4. Prepare 1/2 Stick Unsalted Butter
  5. Make ready 1 LG Bay Leaf
  6. Take 3/4 teaspoon Dried Thyme
  7. Prepare Cracked Black Pepper [to taste]
  8. Prepare 32 oz Box Beef Broth [low sodium]
  9. Get 1/2 Cup Dry White Wine [chardonnay]
  10. Prepare 1 LG Baguette Bread
  11. Prepare Garlic Butter [as needed - for bread]
  12. Prepare 1 Gruyère Cheese [4 slices or 1 brick - you can substitute Swiss if in a pinch]
  13. Prepare 1 1/2 tbsp AP Flour
  14. Get Fresh Parsley [for garnish]
  15. Get 1/2-3/4 Packet Lipton Onion Soup Mix
  16. Prepare 2 LG Oven Safe Ramikins

Steak is also a good dish to pair with French onion soup. You'll have a complete meal when you serve French onion soup with a meat course like steak. Then have a slice of toasted French bread and you'll have a very filling lunch or dinner. Growing up, my mother always made French onion soup on special occasions.

Steps to make Mike's French Onion Soup:
  1. Add butter to a large pot. Slice onions thin and place in pot. Also, add your green onions, garlic, thyme, black pepper and bay leaf. Simmer onions for 25+ minutes until onions are limp and translucent. Stir regularly.
  2. Add white wine and simmer 5 minutes longer to burn off alcohol. Pull bay leaf.
  3. Dust onion mixture with your flour and cook for about 5 to 7 minutes to cook out any flavor of flour. Stir constantly. Add minimal amounts of butter to pot if your flour begins to seize up and is too difficult to stir. Or, if you feel it's in danger of burning.
  4. Add your broth and 1/2 to 3/4 package of Lipton Onion Soup Mix. I use 2/3's packet for the additional sodium & onion flavors. It really does balance the sweetness of the Vidalia Onions quite well. Simmer 10 minutes longer. Stir occasionally.
  5. Here's your desired outcome.
  6. Slice your Baguette Bread into 4 pieces. Cut more if you'd like to serve additional slices for dipping. Coat slices with garlic butter. Place in a 350° preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes - or, until baguettes are browned and crispy.
  7. Ladle your hot soup into your Ramikins. Place Ramikins on a lifted edge cookie sheet. These can easily overflow. In fact, it's desired that they do! Just not today in my new oven.
  8. Place 2 toasted garlic Crustinis in each of your your Ramikins.
  9. Slice your Gruyère Cheese and place on top of your toasted Crustinis.
  10. Turn on your ovens broiler.
  11. Place Ramikins in oven for 5 minutes. Or, until your cheese is fully melted and browned.
  12. Garnish with fresh parsley. Allow dish to sit for 3 minutes. Then serve. Enjoy!

It might seem like an odd thing to include on the Thanksgiving table, but it was my father's favorite soup. Since the onions required hours of babysitting to prevent them from burning, Mom was only willing to make the dish a few times a year! With French onion soup, the lengthy cooking time has two phases: Caramelizing the onions slowly and deliberately, and then simmering the broth for a long time with the caramelized onions. Skimping on either side will yield something a little less than the French onion soup of your dreams, but fortunately most of the time is hands-off. Our French onion soup is deliciously rich and easy to make at home.

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