How To Easily Make French Onion Soup In Only Nine Steps

French onion soup (for four servings) :

Preparation : 25 minutes

Cooking : 20 minutes

Ingredients

• 5 big onions
• 50g butter
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 20cl white wine
• 1l water
• 6 white bread slices
• 100g grated comté
• Salt
• Pepper

Steps

• Peel and chop the onions.
• In a saucepan, melt butter with oil and brown the onions until they are slightly golden.
• Add flour, hot water, white wine, salt and pepper.
• Cover and cook over low heat for 20 minutes.
• Put the white bread slices in the oven or in the toaster.
• Once toasted, put one bread slice at the bottom of a bowl.
• Sprinkle with grated comté and pour the soup over.
• Sprinkle again with the remaining grated comté.
• Put those bowls in the oven to brown the cheese on the top, done !

 

Personal tips

You can add chicken broth to your French onion soup, it will be tastier !

A dry white wine is highly recommended with your French onion soup.