How To Make Amazing French Onion Soup

If you can make this one day ahead the flavor will be much improved. Also, it's very easy to warm up, top with cheese, and broil the next day for a fast meal. As always, the ingredients and print recipe are linked in the description. Thanks for watching and sharing our videos.

Great video as always ! Some insight from France here for what it's worth, grand parents and parents have been cooking onion soup like forever. We're not using vermouth nor brandy (not popular here) but white wine. As for the tomato paste, we also usually do not put any tomato (its' a really old traditional soup and tomatoes were more higher class), but potatoes for sure, just a little bit so that the starch will be bringing some more balance. There is a very special traditional moment for cooking this soup in large quantities : at the end of a wedding party, like 5 or 6AM. Cleans the excess like nothing else.

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Jim, been watching you for a long time. I used to be a Chef/Sous Chef for almost 20 years. You have a fantastic way of teaching and man you know what you are doing. Thanks for showing everyone how to cook and have fun at the same time. You are the man!

My favorite winter comfort food! I like to use 3 kinds of onions and 3 kinds of cheese. Sweet, red and yellow onions. Gruyere, swiss and mozzarella cheese. I sometimes add some worcestershire sauce and I have done red wine as well.

Long time ago I worked at a pizza place on South Street in Philly. Yet, they had two other products. Italian Roast beef and French Onion soup. We'd make 10 gallons every morning. Basically your recipe but just white wine and a dash of Balsamic vinegar. The ramekins were heated in the pizza oven for less than a minute.

You read my mind with this video. 2 days ago my daughter asked me to make her French Onion soup, which I have never made. Guess what, now I know how to make it. Thank you for the perfect timing with this video. I am going to make it Sunday morning and we'll eat it while watching the game.

I am NEVER disappointed when I visit your channel. Just a GREAT source for easy, and Excellent tasting recipes. This one Looks extra great. Onion Soup! Who doesn't Love that. Thank you always for your efforts!

What a coincidence, I literally just made onion soup, kind of sad I couldn't follow your recipe but I will next time for sure! Keep up the great work.

I love the way you get your family to taste your cooking to see what they think. My mum and Nonna used to do that EVERY time they cooked a big meal, even though it was always the same recipe as the time before……but it was always absolutely delicious. They were amazing in the kitchen.

Agree about using the most flavorful stock available if you're trying to do this as a vegetarian. I use Better Than Boullion's vegetable base (I also add 1 tablespoon of soy sauce) and my Fred Flintstone carnivorous bf is perfectly happy with it. So glad I found your channel - shoutout to my south shore peeps!

This looks great and is pretty close to how I make mine. I use red wine (just 1/2 cup) because it's what I typically have on hand. You are SO right about making this (or any) soup (or stew, or chili) a day ahead -- it's twice as delicious after a night in the fridge. This soup freezes well, too. Make a double batch and freeze half, and there's dinner for another day!

I love how with such a low-ingredient recipe like French onion soup, small adjustments can make a world of difference. I love making French Onion soup during the cold months, so I'm looking forward to cooking with this recipe soon

Ah yes. It’s that time of the year again 🍂🍁🍃…almost 🥵

I’m so happy you finally came up with a reason to buy some tomato paste in a tube! You gotta have it for times like this when you only want a couple teaspoons. It’s a great pantry item.

I made this Friday and served it last night a a first course and OMG it was so, so, so good, my husband really liked it, i personally would have it as a meal on its on but i knew it wouldn't be enough for my husband so i served roast beef dinner as the main course, but definitely taking this for lunch tomorrow with a thick slice of sour dough bread

I recently had the French onion soup at Le Precope in Paris (they claim to be the oldest restaurant in the city - est 1686). I surprised to find that they do not serve it with bread, only about half a pound of melted Gruyère on top. It was pretty tasty!

This looks amazing!!! I can only imagine that wonderful smell when you dropped in the garlic. Onion 🧅 & garlic 🧄 are a beautiful combination!

Jim you are a master of art with the stove, dutch oven and wooden spoon with this dish! We watched this video about 2 weeks and ago I decided to make this last Saturday evening. I, for once, did pretty much everything (see, I can't even copy a recipe when I try) like you showed. I had a little less onions, so I cut the ingredients down some. I had 5 large sweet onions... After the 90 minute mark, my patience started wearing thin. By now, it was 7:30 PM, I had pretty much been on my feet, in the kitchen, back to the TV, watching and hoping to see Alabama and Georgia lose their football games. My onions were barely starting to yellow from white. They had reduced about 60%. I started cranking the heat (gas) to high for a minute, then back to low. Stir, stir, stir. High heat, then low. Stir, stir, stir. We finally got to the tomato paste stage, then flour, then white wine, then beef stock. I didn't have any brandy or other liquor, heck, if I had, I would have consumed it already from waiting. Those that know me know that if I cooked onions slowly for nearly 2 hours there was something wrong. Well, it turned out, very rich, very good. I got a long Cuban bread roll from Publix that day, sliced up about half of it, toasted and dried it out in the toaster oven during this 2 hour escapade. I then cut it up further into cubes, tossed in olive oil and a touch of garlic powder and returned to the oven for further toasting. I grated a bowl of Gruyere cheese and we sat down with a bowl of French Onion Soup about 8:15. It was delicious and I'd say worth it. Thank you again for a great idea, recipe and cooking method. You have really hit the nail on the head with many of these dishes.

I've only made French Onion soup once by starting with beef bones to make a rich broth. Every restaurant soup can never come close to the flavor of that homemade soup. Mine did not have tomato poste but had a deep brown color. Yum.