Onion Soup
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
-
4 cups
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons softened unsalted butter
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup onion, sliced thinly (1 medium)
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon fresh basil leaf, cut into thin strips
directions
- Knead the butter and flour together with your hands.
- In a saucepan cook the onion in the oil over moderate heat stirring, until it softens; add the broth and bring to a boil.
- Whisk in the butter mixture in small batches, whisking until the soup thickens; stir in the cream, basil and salt and pepper to taste, and bring the soup just to a boil; remove from heat and serve.
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Reviews
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My Mom came over for dinner tonight and I made this soup. It is heavenly! I agree it is too rich for everday but I bet I will start making this at least once a month. My mom wants a copy of the recipe too. And I even had to use dried basil because I forgot to pick up fresh. I can just imagine how it would taste with fresh basil!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
sugarpea
Snohomish, WA
I’m a former interior designer and landscape designer. At the moment I get to enjoy being at home and working only when I want to. I like rollerblading, hiking, backpacking and trips to the ocean. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest and moved to the Northwest when I was thirty, over twenty years ago. I’m afraid they’ll have to bury me here in WA. This is God’s country and I’m never leaving.
I have a smallish collection of cookbooks, preferring to use the library and a copy machine. Among my favorites though, are: Recipes 1-2-3, by Rozanne Gold, a collection of recipes containing no more than 3 ingredients (excepting water, salt and pepper); A Treasury of Great Recipes, by Mary and Vincent Price, recipes collected from friends and chefs of great restaurants around the world; The Mediterranean Diet Cookbook, by Nancy Harmon Jenkins, about a collection of cuisines I’m convinced are the healthiest in the world and The Low-Calorie Gourmet, by Pierre Franey.
Currently my passions are our dogs, the garden, cooking, the natural world and of course, Dh. I can now add Zaar to that list of passions (translate: addiction). We have three dogs, two rescued and one adopted. They are Sugarpea, a Golden Retriever, Chickpea, a Llasa Apso and Sweetpea, a Shih Tzu; small, medium and large. We’re quite a sight out on the trail. One of the things I am most fond of about living here is the ability to vegetable garden year ‘round.