Ingredients: |
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Butter
8 large Sweet Onions
2 cloves crushed Garlic
1/2 tsp Salt & Pepper (or to taste)
1 tsp dried Thyme
1 cup Red Wine (I used 1/2 cup Red & 1/2 cup White - to use up some I had- worked fine!)
1 tbsp Cooking Sherry
2 tbsp Flour
2 quarts Beef Broth
1 French Baguette, cut into 1/2" thick slices
Cheese - Mozza, Swiss, Provolone - personal choice
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Directions: |
Directions:Melt butter in a large soup pot over medium heat.
Cook & stir onions, garlic, salt, pepper & thyme until onions are soft & brown, about 30 mins.
Pour in wine & sherry and bring to a boil.
Reduce heat to low & simmer until you can no longer smell the alcohol cooking off, about 15 mins. more.
Sprinkle onion mixture with flour & stir until coated: cook for 10 mins.
Pour in broth & stir to blend in flour and simmer until slightly thickened, about 20 mins.
Preheat oven to 350º F
Arrange bread slices on a baking sheet & drizzle with olive oil.
Toast the baguette slices in the preheated oven until golden brown, 12 - 14 mins, turning the bread over half way through cooking. Remove toast & set aside.
Set an oven rack about 8" from the heat source and turn on the broiler.
Ladle soup into 6 oven proof crocks - filling them about 3/4" full.
Place 1 (or 2) bread slices into the bowls and top each with cheese.
Carefully place filled crocks onto a sturdy baking sheet.
Broil soup until the cheese is browned & bubbling, 3 - 4 mins. |
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