French Onion soup... yummmm... :)

I was thinking for sometime to make a onion soup. Last couple of days have been very miserable and chilly in Glasgow. Then I decided to make warming and tasty onion soup. It is very easy if you never tried before. Only down point you have to chop a lot of onions which is about a kilo or two! But except that part everything is so easy, peasy. 

 First the ingredients you need for this soup:

This recipe serves 8-9 bowls

50gr butter
100ml Olive oil
1kg onions, thinly sliced (I used mix of red and white onions)
2 tbsp sugar
4 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
2 tbsp plain flour
250ml dry white wine
1.3l hot beef stock(could be substitute with chicken or veggie stock)
French baguette or any hard-crust bread 
140gr Gruyere cheese(or parmesan, cheddar cheese) finely grated

Melt the butter with olive oil in a deep saucepan. Then add onions and fry them for 10 minutes while the lid is on. Sprinkle sugar then keep cooking for another 20 minutes until they get caramelised. Give some stirring frequently and make sure the onions are not burned. 

Then add garlic and cook for a couple of minutes. Followed by flour stir well. Add hot stock and wine also salt and pepper for the seasoning and mix well again. Then let it simmer for 30 minutes. Your homemade onion soup is ready! 

For serving make slices from baguette or any hard-crust bread. Toast the bread slices either under grill or in toaster. Sprinkle some grated cheese on the top of toasted bread then grill until the cheese melted. Pour some soup into the individual bowls. Put the toasted and melted cheese bread slice on the top layer of the soup. Now it's time to taste. :) 

If you like you can sprinkle some fresh herbs or dried ones such as thyme, oregano or coriander while serving. Also when boiling the soup you can add couple of leaves of bay leaf. It will give beautiful flavour to your soup.

Enjoy it! :)