French Onion Soup

I have seen tons of onions at the store recently. So logically following that, I decided to try making french onion soup.

This soup was pretty easy to make, it took a lot of cooking time, but the active time was pretty short.

What you need:
5 onions
1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup flour
1 tbsp paprika
2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp seasoned salt
1 bay leaf
3 tsp sugar
3 cups soup stock
1 cup white wine
Sourdough or French bread
Cheese



(1) Peel and cut the onion into fourths, cut into 1/8 inch slices.

(2) Melt the butter in a big soup pot, add the onions and cook on low heat until the onions are completely soft, this should take around one hour.

(3) Add the paprika, black pepper, seasoned salt, bay leaf, and sugar. Mix in the flour. If you want a thinner soup you can omit the flour.

(4) Add the white wine and soup stock. Beef broth is best, but you can use whatever you have handy. Cook for another one or two hours.

(5) Put the soup in the refrigerator overnight. Put in a bowl, with a slice of bread, then cheese and put in the oven to heat up and melt the cheese.

Beef broth is what will give your onion soup its nice color. If you don't use beef broth you can use caramel color or food coloring. I didn't use anything and my soup ended up looking a bit orange. It tasted really yummy though.