soup

[twiglet]

does anyone have a tasty, relatively easy onion soup recipe?

[godsdog]

A lot (official quantity) of the tastiest onions you can find. Chop and sweat them down in a little butter, adding a little sugar and seasoning, until caramalised - slowly on a low heat in a big pan with a lid.

Add quality beef stock, stir, simmer for a while (official timing). Serve. ...preferably with fresh baguette crouton, lightly toasted with melted Gruyère on it.

It's all down to the quality of the beef stock

And if you want a thicker, cloudier soup, then make a roux and add the beef stock to that, thicken to texture required. Pour over the onions - stir, simmer for while...

Did I say how important a good stock was?

Couldn't be easier or tastier.
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[godsdog]

...and do it at a weekend when no-one is around and you aren't reliant on interacting with people so much. It's a guaranteed wind generating recipe.
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[grizzla]

perhaps rather than using sugar i would add a little balsamic vinegar, gives the sweetness but adds some extra flavoursome goodness, bar that it looks like a recipe i shall be tryin soon

[godsdog]

Sure thing. That should actually say a little brown sugar but anything that intensifies and enhances the onion is a winner - dollop of Dijon mustard works very well. You can also use a slug of good white wine at the end of the caramelization(?) process on a high heat for a minute or two too if you wanted. It all percolates through the beef stock after a good simmer and balances itself out into a great onion soup.

[Clingy]

Just back from France and I must have had 5 or 6 portions of Onion Soup. My favourite is the one where you cannot see any liquid....just a bowl of sweet sweated onions . Hardly soup really, but delicious.