French Onion Soup Crockpot Recipe

photo by EvinOk

Day 74.

There is nothing better than french onion soup. Nothing!

This is ridiculously easy to make, and tastes like it belongs in a french restaurant. This is a good dish to simmer all day long while you are at work, or while out and about saving the world.

The Ingredients.

3 1/2 cups of beef broth

3 tablespoons butter

2 yellow onions, peeled and sliced in rings

1/2 tablespoon white granulated sugar

1/4 cup cooking sherry or regular sherry if that's what you like! (or dry white wine would probably work)

1/2 teaspoon kosher salt (you might need more if your butter isn't salted)

slices of toasted bread (we are gluten free,so that's what I used)

gruyere cheese (swiss could work too)

The Directions.

--heat your crockpot to high and plop your butter in to start melting

--slice the yellow onions into rings

--break up the onion slices with your fingers, and rub them around in the melted butter

--add the beef broth, sugar, salt, and sherry

--cook on high for 6-8 hours or low for 10-12. It takes a while for the onions to get translucent and pliable

before serving:

--toast 4 slices of the bread that you are going to use. 

--cut gruyere cheese into slices

--put the cheese onto the toasted bread, and carefully float the bread and cheese on the top of the soup

--remove stoneware from crockpot and place the UNCOVERED stoneware into the oven

--broil for a minute or two--the cheese should be all melty and turn a golden color

ladle into 4 bowls.

The Verdict.

This was fantastic! It really only serves 4 though---and 2 of them were kids. So if you have a larger family or are serving more adults, you would probably want to double or at least increase by 50%. The flavor and consistency was spot on.

yay!

Thank you to Evin for the new picture up above!! This was what my original pic looked like back in 2008, yikes!:

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