I love love love French onion soup. Whenever it's on the menu I'm all in. The other day I had a bunch of onions and I was making pork chips for dinner so I decided to make French onion soup porkchops. So first we make the soup.. I researched like I always do. I read 4 different recipes on some renound cooking sites and decided on my own.
Ingredients
1/2c butter
4-5 onions sliced thin
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 sprigs of Thyme or 2tsp thyme
1tsp herbs de Provence
1/2 bottle of red wine
4c water
4tsp better the bullion beef stock
French baguette
Swiss or Gruyere cheese
Method
In a large sock pot melt butter
Slice onions
On medium heat sauté onions with ryme and garlic
Sauté onions on low heat for 1 1/2 hours
When onions are sautéed and carmelized turn up the heat to medium and add the wine
Let wine simmer, add Herbs de Provence reduce heat and cook until the wine reduced down about a half an hour.
Make beef stock by heating water and adding bullion. Add to the onion wine mixture
Let simmer on medium. Cook so flavores can blend about 20-30 min on low heat.
Heat oven to broil, put baguette in a oven safe ramekin
Pour soup over
Cover with cheese and cook under broiler.
And devour!