French Onion Soup Average Jane Style

My fiance hates french onion soup, BUT HE LOVES THIS!

I'm sorry there isn't a picture. I made this soup before I started a blog and it costs a lot to remake it. It uses expensive ingredients like red wine and balsamic, ...if you don't already have this stuff, it needs it.

I used wood smoked cheddar on baquettes that I baked in the oven before serving the soup and it is better than the traditional cheese on this soup. If I had the cash I would have preferred an apple wood cheddar.

If you've never made french onion before, don't worry, neither had I, but it is easy. Just look at youtube videos and lots of recipes on how to do it. You can twist it any way you want to.

I didn't measure, but if you take a look at other recipes for french onion you will get a good idea of how much to use. I used 3 lbs onions compared to 2 litres of broth. I really feel that I could have used more onions! I like it to be very thick with carmalized onions.

I used flour and butter to thicken the soup to more of a gravy consistency. I don't like "soupy" onion soup. I like it to be thick.

I used red wine to deglaze the pan after carmalizing the onions.

Spanish yellow onion organic
beef broth organic
chicken broth organic
minced garlic organic
butter organic
balsamic real aged 4 years or more
brown sugar
coarse sea salt or pink himalayan sea salt
fresh ground black pepper
smoked paprika
red wine aged
parmasean cheese crumble
asiago cheese shredded
wood smoked aged cheddar
dijon mustard
flour
baquette