How to Make The Ultimate French Onion Soup
Bryan Roof shows you how to make the ultimate French Onion soup.
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Give this man a RAISE! I tried it. It rocks !
Sugar ? Big no no
That looks so good! December is next week, so it's definitely soup time!
This bares no relation to proper French onion soup. White onion? Red wine? 40 mins to caramelise? Tiny croutons? Cheese under the crouton? Parmesan? It's also looks thin and watery as hell. As a French person, I would be insulted to be served this and it be called FRENCH onion soup.
Good to hit all these tips, but what I think is missing here is something that I always do when I make this soup – use different types of onions. Use red onions as well as shallots and any other type you can get your hands on. This is how I make my chili more complex – use different fresh and dried chilis. Roast some, add some fresh ones, etc. Recipes like this are all about richness and depth of flavor. Different onions have different characteristics. Use any type you can find and caramelize them all together in the same way you would all one type. It makes a difference.
Looks great 👍🏻 enough cheese for me 😂, I’m a mouse .
The French Onion Soup recipe may use a red wine, but I much prefer to DRINK wine, especially Bernkasteler Doktor, a magnificent Riesling with the soup.
Magnificent creation.
Can I use PBR instead of red wine?
Hi, can you please tell us where your crocks are from? We want to buy that specific set. Thanks
This soup looks delicious and pretty easy to make. Why do some people add a raw egg into the soup before adding the croutons and cheese?
He's such a good cook and dare I say easy on the eyes.
Never use colouring.
Too much salt and no alcohol.
Looks pretty easy and uncomplicated. I will certainly attempt this recipe. Thank you.
love this onion soup recipe. Have subscribed to you. Enjoy concise way of giving recipe. Will try this. Thank you Ruth
Can’t wait to make the French Onion Soup!
What IS a good quality beef broth? Any suggestions?
How you make pepper soup
Table salt? Red wine? Pass…
Looks great!…I watched while my onions were caramelizing on the stove.
Best onion soup recipe so far. I would bring me and my wife to the fine flavor of the first soup we were served 40 years ago.
I just made his recipe this evening, and it is delicious. Thanks y'all at American T est Kitchen. I did add a little garlic and the very beginning of the process I added very finely chopped pancetta. I also had a lack of Sherry so I improvised with dry red wine and a few portions of whiskey. Gave it a really good flavor. And maybe just a hint of a beef bouillon cube. Lol. I also didn't have typical bread for croutons so I improvise and used sourdough toast dried out in my air fryer fritoasted with topped butter and garlic powder salt and pepper. Excellent. And yes I love his idea of adding the croutons as opposed to one whole piece of bread., that's messy.
I added stew meat to mine to make it heartier. It was delicious and very filling.
"Love" it !!!!!!!!! 😍
Would you please leave my share aside 😊 thank you ♾️ ❤ + 🕯 💜 🍀🍃🌾🍷
I wonder when this was recorded .. No doubt years ago
Now I know what I’m making this weekend, only I’m going to make grilled cheese
Try soaking the onions im cold water for like 5 min before cooking.
The melted crusty cheese down the side of the crock is the best part of this soup!
Nah, I like the traditional method of all of the cheese on top of one slice of bread. Crashing through the cheese and bread to get to the soup is part of the fun of french onion soup.
Omg! Looks so delicious 😋 and for sure going to make it with this recipe 😋
Bryan, what a fabulous recipe of one of my two favorite soups. Even though it’s summertime, I can eat this soup with no problem now (even though a cold night and a fireplace come to my mind)! My other favorite soup is Lobster Bisque. I hope I didn’t miss your recipe on that one but if you haven’t taught us that yet, would you please consider teaching us your recipe? Thanks so much.
One of my favorite soups. This looks wonderful.
I always scrape the fond from the inside sides of the pot. I never see any of the ATK chefs do this. That is a classic French method in retaining flavor. Instead youre adding more salt. Also, the crouton is an accoutrement — less is more — lay off the bread! it's killing people, — so you have a bowl of soaked swollen bread flavored with some onion. Not a soup.
Fantastic recipe, I do miss the interaction of more folks on this show though.
Needs more cheese
This looks so delicious!
Hey Bryan, what time can I come over? 😄 French Onion Soup is my favorite, and I just don't get to nice restaurants any more. Costco sells some brand (that looks like a frozen muffin bottom) which aren't too bad, but certainly not the same quality as yours. Excellent video, Bryan!
Decades ago, at my first date at a 'fancy' restaurant I ordered French onion soup. As I ate it a sliver of onion 'jumped' onto my chin and hung on for dear life. Hadn't had that soup since.
PBS does spoil me. : – )
Literally the best part of French onion soup is the cheese fried to the outside of the bowl and you eliminated it ON PURPOSE….🤦♂️🤦♂️
Step 1 : make any other type of soup.
He left that last onion just so he could demonstrate his skill with that knife
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