American Onion Soup Recipes

AMERICAN FRENCH ONION SOUP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Melt 1/4 cup butter in a large, oven-safe skillet on medium heat. Stir in onions until they are all coated in butter. Transfer skillet to the preheated oven and cook onions, stirring occasionally, until they are tender and well browned, about 1 hour.
• Transfer skillet to the stovetop; cook and stir onions over medium heat until they start to brown and stick to the bottom of the pan, about 5 minutes. Pour sherry and vinegar into the pan, and bring to a boil while scraping browned bits of onion off the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon.
• Place caramelized onions in a large soup pot. Pour in chicken broth, beef broth, and thyme. Bring to a boil, skimming off any foam and fat that appear on top. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about an hour. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
• Generously brush French bread slices with melted butter. Place on a baking sheet and broil in the preheated oven until crisp and golden, about 5 minutes.
• Ladle soup into heat-proof bowls, top each bowl with a piece of toasted bread, sprinkle with 2 to 3 tablespoons of Cheddar cheese and Monterey Jack cheese.
• Broil bowls of soup under the broiler until cheese is golden and bubbly, 5 to 6 minutes.

OLD-FASHIONED ONION SOUP

Steps:

• Place sliced onions and butter into slow cooker, and mix until onions are thoroughly coated. Stir in bread and chicken broth.
• Cover, and cook on LOW for 10 to 18 hours or on HIGH 4 to 5 hours, stirring occasionally. Stir well during last hour.

NITA'S AMERICAN ONION SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan over medium-low heat, fry 4 strips of bacon until crisp.
• Drain on paper towels.
• Reserve bacon fat for another use.
• In same pan, over low heat, melt butter.
• Add onions and saute them over medium-low heat until onion is somewhat translucent and tender, about 10 minutes.
• Stir frequently until onions caramelize and are golden brown.
• Stir in garlic.
• Remove from heat.
• Do NOT burn.
• In a large pot or Dutch Oven, combine onions, beef broth, Kitchen Bouquet and dark brown sugar.
• Simmer gently for 1 hour, stir occasionally.
• Meanwhile, spray or spread bread of choice with a thin coating of butter.
• Toast lightly and place it in a 225 Degrees F.
• warm oven and allow it to dry out.
• Add wine and oregano to soup.
• Cook for another 20 minutes.
• Add shallots and cook another 5 minutes.
• Season with black pepper.
• Remove bread from oven.
• Increase oven temperature to 350 Degrees F.
• Place oven dried bread (or use Croutons) in 4 ovenproof soup bowls.
• Ladle soup on top and sprinkle with crumbled crisp bacon.
• Cover top of bowls with cheese slices.
• Place in preheated oven and bake about 20 minutes or until cheese melts.
• Serve immediately.
• ENJOY!

"AMERICAN" ONION SOUP

Steps:

• First, chop the onions into thin slices. Really any amount of about 4 onions works, but I prefer the taste of these three together. While you are cutting your last onion, start to melt about 4 Tbsp of butter in your pot on a low heat. Bring the heat up to a medium heat and put the onions in the melted butter. With a whisk, stir to coat. Then sprinkle the onions with about 3 Tsp seasoned salt and whisk to distribute evenly. Caramelize the onions - don't stir too often or they won't brown. When the onions get to the point where they are sticking to the pan a bit, grab your apple cider. Pour 1/2 cup of apple cider in, and let the apple cider simmer down so that the onions are almost to the consistency they were before, only with a bit of apple cider still there. Put in 4 TBSP all purpose flour. Whisk this into a roux. It will look like onions mixed with sand almost. When well blended, pour in 3/4 cup beef stock and whisk together until you see no more flour clumps. From there, throw in your 5 bay leaves, pour in 2 1/2 more cups of beef broth, and 3/4 dry white wine. Move to a medium-high heat and get it up to a light boil, then throw in your 3 Tsp Worchester sauce, 2 tsp white pepper, and 1 more tsp of seasoning salt. Let simmer for about 20-ish minutes, or until a bit of the broth cooks down. While the soup is simmering, preheat your oven to the "broil" (or top-broil for some) setting. Cut your french bread - this can be really any white bread from a previous meal - into small cubes. Or better yet - skip the knife and just rip the bread! Throw these into an oven safe soup crock . Once the soup is done, ladle the soup over the bread until there is about 1/4inch of room between the soup and the top of the bowl. Sprinkle with mozzarella first so that the soup is covered with some gaps. Fill in the gaps and cover again with the white cheddar cheese. Put this in your oven to broil for about 4-5 minutes - just keep an eye on it. Let cool and then enjoy!