French Onion Soup With Cider

Submitted by AmandaInOz

"From the October/November 2007 issue of Vogue Entertaining + Travel. This soup can be made up to three days in advance."

 

• Ready In: 55mins
• Ingredients: 9
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 150 g unsalted butter, chopped
• 1 kg onion, halved, thinly sliced
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons sea salt
• 355 ml alcoholic dry cider
• 1 1⁄2 liters beef stock
• 1 baguette, cut into 12 1cm slices
• 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 150 g gruyere cheese, grated
• 1 sprig fresh thyme, to garnish

directions

1. Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and sea salt and cook, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes or until onions are deep golden.
2. Add cider and simmer until reduced by half, then add stock and simmer for 10 minutes. Season with pepper.
3. Meanwhile, place bread on a foil-lined tray and cook both sides under a hot grill until dried but not browned. Spread with mustard and top with cheese, then grill until cheese bubbles and browns.
4. Serve soup topped with the croûtons and sprigs of thyme.

Reviews

[mary winecoff]

I love the flavor that the dry cider imparted into this soup. I used Hornsby Hard Apple cider in this soup. Quick and easy to do. Made for Aussie Tag, Oct. 2008.

 

[CaliforniaJan]

Made for ZWT 4's trip to Canada. I haven't made a French onion soup in a long time, and this one makes me regret not doing so. Fabulous taste and easy to put together.

 

[Tisme]

What a great way to make French Onion Soup. The only thing I changed was the type of cheese as DS ate the Gruyere I had bought so I had to use Parmesan and Mozerall as it was all I had on hand, but it was still fantastic. The only change I will make next time is to use a low salt stock, the stock I used was very salty, (no fault of the recipe) I have been caught by stock before being too salty, so I should have known. But this is a fantastic recipe that I will be making again during the winter months. Everyone loved it and said it was so tasty and so filling. Thanks Amanda.

 

[CookingONTheSide]

This is an excellent French onion soup recipe. The flavor is just wonderful; we all enjoyed it very much. A definite keeper.

 

[French Tart]

Amanda, I KNOW my French Onion Soups, and this was DIVINE!! We BOTH loved it, it was a great recipe!! I made it EXACTLY as posted and it came out a dream! Many thanks for this.....I DO have my own recipe, but now I have another version to make when I want a change! Merci! FT:-)