How To Make Amazing French Onion Soup

beef broth

🥗Healthier: vegetable broth

💰Cheaper: chicken broth

Vegetable broth is lower in calories and suitable for vegetarians.

gruyère cheese

🥗Healthier: part-skim mozzarella

💰Cheaper: cheddar cheese

Part-skim mozzarella has fewer calories, while cheddar is often less expensive.

Quarter the onions and chop one head of garlic in half.

Add the marrow bone and vegetable scraps to a pot and cover with water.

Bring to a quick simmer and skim off impurities every 30 minutes.

Chop the onions: cut larger onions from top to bottom, peel, and trim edges; chop shallots by trimming ends and peeling.

Melt butter in a heavy bottomed pot over medium low heat.

Add all the onions to the pot and stir to coat in butter, cooking for 15 minutes without browning.

Add a pinch of salt to help soften the onions, cover, and cook for another 15 minutes until translucent.

Add brown sugar to the onions and stir without the lid for 45 minutes to an hour until deeply golden brown and caramelized.

Pour some of the beef stock over the caramelized onions to deglaze the pot and scrape up the fond.

Add white wine to the pot and reduce uncovered by 80%.

Strain the stock and pour it over the onions.

Add fresh cracked black pepper, bay leaves, and thyme to the pot.

Reduce heat to very low, cover, and let cook for another 45 minutes.

Slice day old baguette diagonally and rub with halved garlic clove.

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