Onion & Cheese.

Too many onions…so what do you do with them? Time for a delicious onion soup, topped off with cheese toast. Pure comfort food, if you ask me.

The following recipe serves about 4.

Ingredients:

  •  10 onions
  • A stick of butter
  • 1 litre fresh chicken or vegetable stock
  • 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
  • 2 leaves of laurel
  • Black pepper from the grinder
  • Grated cheese (Swiss Emmental for example)
  • 4 slices of toast
Onion soup, with a floating cheese and toast island. Simply delicious and ready in the blink of an eye.

Onion soup, with a floating cheese and toast island. Simply delicious and ready in the blink of an eye.

Get choppin’!

  • Clean the onions, slice them in half, then slice them in fine rings
  • Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the onions slowly until they are golden.
  • Put the fried onions in a kettle and add the stock. Add thyme and laurel.
  • Leave to simmer for about half an hour.
  • Taste and season with salt and black pepper to your own taste
  • Heat the oven, 90-100 degrees should do it. Add baking paper to your tray or grill.
  • Top each of the toast slices with a royal sprinkling of cheese
  • In they go for a few minutes until the cheese has molten.
  • Serve the soup in bowls, add a slice of cheese toast on top.

Bon appétit!

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