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
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!