My French Onion Soup
"I came up with this recipe with ingredients I had on hand. It is a lot faster then the average onion soup as part of the prep cooking is done in the microwave. Another way to save time is to use a mandoline to slice your onions with. Enjoy!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (305.7 g)
- Calories 173.6
- Total Fat - 9.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 5.8 g
- Cholesterol - 28 mg
- Sodium - 1088.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 12.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.1 g
- Sugars - 6.2 g
- Protein - 9.7 g
- Calcium - 288.7 mg
- Iron - 0.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 5.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Slice onions thinly. (I use a mandoline slicer)
Step 2
Place onions and butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 3 minutes.
Step 3
Stir onions and microwave for another 3 minutes.
Step 4
Stir onions and microwave for another 3 minutes.
Step 5
Stir onions and microwave for another 3 minutes.
Step 6
Remove onions from microwave with any liquid and place them in a heavy pot or dutch oven on medium heat.
Step 7
Add beef broth, chicken broth, soy sauce, Worcestershire sauce and chives.
Step 8
Bring to a boil and then on low heat cover and cook the soup for an hour.
Step 9
Slice Italian bread into 12 slices about 1/2 inch thick and toast it under the broiler until light golden brown.
Step 10
Place soup into oven safe bowls and place a piece of toasted bread into each bowl.
Step 11
Top the toast with a 1/4 cup (or more) of shredded mozzarella cheese.
Step 12
Broil for 5 minutes or until desired golden brown. (See Photo)
Step 13
Enjoy!
Tips
No special items needed.