If you love the taste of a delicious bakery style French Onion Soup, then you’ll love this quick and Easy French Onion Soup Recipe!
It’s so easy to throw this warming bowl of cheesy goodness together that you’ll be making it all year long!
How to Make French Onion Soup:
If you’re not familiar with French Onion Soup, it’s caramelized onions that are infused with thyme in a beef broth. The hot soup is topped with crusty bread and cheese then quickly broiled in the oven to get a melty gooey and bubbly top.
It’s basically heaven in a bowl.
I’ve quickened this recipe, while still leaving it full flavored and delicious.
What type of onions to use for French Onion Soup?
- I prefer the yellow sweet onions as they tend to have a more mild sweet flavor to them.
- Chop off the top and bottom of the onion, peel it, then cut it in half.
- Make the onion slices uniformly thin so the onions can cook quicker and more evenly.
Throw the onions and some butter into a large pot along with some sprigs fresh thyme and a bay leaf. Let it cook, stirring occasionally until the onions are really soft and tender.
Once they are soft and tender add some red cooking wine and stir to break up any browned bits on the bottom of the pan.
Let the red wine reduce to half then sprinkle the onions with some flour and stir. This will help thicken the soup and give it some body.
Pour in the beef broth and you’re nearly done!
The trick to the French Onion Soup is to get the bread nice and crusty so it doesn’t immediately turn to mush when it’s placed on top of the soup. Well, I found that using a good and thick garlic crouton yields amazing results. For one, it’s easy (I always have croutons on hand), and for two, the croutons hold their shape quite well and have a little crunch to them even after being drenched in soup and smothered with cheese.
What type of cheese for French Onion Soup?
- I use a nice thick cut Havarti cheese, but you can also use
- Swiss
- Gruyere
- Gouda
- The possibilities are endless, have fun with it!
The results are incredible.
This quick and easy French Onion Soup Recipe will knock your socks off.
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Easy French Onion Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 yellow onions, sliced thin
- 3 tbsp butter
- 2-3 thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 cup red cooking wine
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 4 cups beef broth
- salt and pepper
- 1 cup garlic croutons
- 4 slices Havarti cheese
Instructions
- In a large pot melt butter and combine onions, thyme and bay leaf over medium high heat. Stir and cook onions for about 20 minutes or until really soft and tender.
- Add red cooking wine and stir, breaking up any browned bits on the bottom of pan, let liquid reduce to half the amount. Sprinkle with flour and stir to coat.
- Pour in the beef broth and bring to a boil, then reduce heat and let simmer for 5-10 minutes. Discard thyme and bay leaf.
- Meanwhile turn your oven on to broil and prepare oven safe bowl on a foil lined baking sheet.
- Ladle the soup into bowls, divide the croutons among the bowls, top each bowl with a slice of cheese. Carefully place in oven and broil until cheese is melted and bubbly.
- Use caution when serving, as the bowls will be HOT! Enjoy!
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Looks great! The recipe is quite simple and easy to prepare, added to the menu for this weekend. hope to enjoy the best French Onion Soup with my family. Thanks and have a nice day!
So great to hear! Enjoy!
This is delicious and easy. Didn’t have red wine, used dry white and was perfect. Cut ciabatta into pieces and buttered them, then topped with shredded Swiss/Gruyere and broiled the bread instead of putting whole bowl in the oven. I will make this a lot. Thanks!
Love the tips Sharon! SO glad you enjoyed the recipe!
This is the very easy and yummy onion soup recipe that i have enjoyed until now. I love to enjoy it the end of each weekend. Thank a lot for your sharing.
So glad you enjoyed it Alice!
Look yummy! One of my favorite French Onion Soup, nice to see your recipe, easy to follow, will cook this for family this weekend. Thanks you!
Wow. You have so many recipes, can you tell me where you learned it?
I am looking for food like this. thank you for sharing.
Your food is really good for health.
I will be adding a menu for my family this week.
I will make a great meal for my family.
thank you
Hope you enjoy it!
OK, another onion soup I will have to try… Thanks for sharing!
Glad you found it! Thanks Emilia!
The feeling is different from what I thought. Very fragrant and easy to eat. At first, when I heard onion soup, I thought it was hard to eat
I like caramelized onions, how many millimeters of onion I should cut? if it’s too thick, eat very spicy
Hmm… I would just suggest cutting to your desired thickness.
I love to cook and I am always looking for new recipes for my daily menu, which is interesting for my work. Today is my lucky day, the French Onion Soup Recipe is great, just follow the instructions and everything is easy, I like it. Thanks for your sharing
Oh this soup is interesting, I think I can make this, will give it a try, thanks for the recipe.
I made it last week, it’s awesome I’m addicted with the cheese taste. Thanks so much for sharing.
So glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Use a decent red wine from a liquor store, rather than ‘cooking wine’ from the grocery store… (which is just bad red wine with salt in it, for 3 times the price.)
Thanks for the tip, Elsie!
I added three shakes of worstechire sauce to add to the flavor. Otherwise it’s delicious!
Hi Courtney, I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Great! French style dishes are always attractive to me and Onion Soup is an indispensable item. I like it, it’s great to enjoy them. added it to the menu this weekend. thank you for sharing
Great! I hope you enjoy it.
Thanks for your enthusiasm, my whole family loves your food
Hi, just a small question. When you dig in to this lovely soup, how do you eat the crouton with out making a mess or getting it all over the place? Perhaps there is no way and you just have to dig in. How do you tackle it?
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I made it and tried it with my sandwich. My flavor was stimulated by French onion soup recipe. Thanks for sharing it
A great recipe, my son it enjoyed every time I cook, especially the onion flavor. feeling very different
Just one word: too wonderful
So glad you enjoyed it!
So good. I made it exactly as the recipe said. It was perfect. Will def make again
Awesome! So glad you enjoyed it Joe!
I’ve recently attempted a couple of recipes…winged it on one and used mozzarella (fail), the one from a fave cookbook was lacking in flavor. Pleased to discover your recipe today – I believe hubs is going to be a very happy man.
Regarding the four cups of beef broth…If I buy some such as Campbells in a can, should I prepare the beef broth as per Campbells by adding water first, or just add the contents of the can directly? If just added straight from the can without preparing it with the added water as per instructions on the can, wouldn’t it be too heavy and salty for the French Onion Soup of your recipe? Please advise as yours sounds wonderful.
Hi Annie, if the beef broth you’re using is a concentrated version, then yes, I would add the extra water as per instructions. I usually use the boxed versions of beef broth, which are ready to use. Hope that helps! 🙂
Thank you very much Sawn. That is definitely a help!
I have been craving french onion soup for some time now and this looks like the recipe that I’m going to give a try.
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Amazing recipe!! it is delicious!!
I made this recipe for the first time recently. My brother had his own recipe and nit was pretty tasty albeit too salty for my tastes. But this recipe was really well seasoned and very delicious. I live in a small studio and cooking always heats up my room so I have to open the door. We had a friend coming over that night and upon his arrival he stated, It smells so good all the way down the hall. He of course had some along with my bf. Thank you for the great recipe and making the directions clear and concise.
Thanks Keke! I’m so glad you enjoyed the soup! 🙂
What could I substitute for red cooking wine ?
You could try 1/2 cup beef broth plus 1 tbsp of red wine vinegar. If you don’t have red wine vinegar you could try balsamic vinegar instead. This might alter the taste a little bit, but should still be pretty good. Hope that helps!
If i don’t eat meat, but still want to try it, would it work with vegetable broth instead?
It would work in the sense that it’s still a soup, but it would not have the distinct taste of French Onion Soup, you would need beef broth for the full effect.
Try Portobello Mushroom Broth. It’s flavor is closer to beef broth & is much more robust than simple Vege Broth, which is an excellent stand-in for chicken broth. I have been a vegetarian for years & these are 2 of my standard yummy work-arounds.
Omg, i must try it! Thank you!!
This is one of my favorite recipes. I love french onion soup and never imagined I would make it myself. Such an easy and delicious recipe!
Love this recipe!! It was absolutely delicious and so easy to make. Will be making again this week for sure.
I love this recipe!
Because this soup looks very delicious, I want to share your recipe with my country’s people. May I translate this recipe and post on my blog. Sure, I will let visitors know this recipe is yours, and I won’t use your picture or post it without your permission. I wait for your answer.
Oh, I miss informing you that your recipe will be translate into Korean.
Ok, so this is one of my hubby’s favorite soups…I just might have to make this for him one night!
Oooo so cozy!
Thanks for sharing the nice recipe. It should be very delicious. I will definitely try to make it.