Beefy French Onion Soup
Indulge in the rich and comforting flavours of our Beefy French Onion Soup, elevated to perfection with the savoury depth of MINOR'S Beef Base.
This soul-satisfying soup combines savoury beef flavour with caramelized onions, chewy French bread, and creamy Gruyère cheese. This dish is ideal for keeping your customers warm during the chilly months, ensuring they return for seconds and more.
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56 grams Butter, unsalted
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908 grams Onions, sliced thin or small diced
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3 Splints Thyme, fresh, sprig
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2 pieces Garlic, peeled, whole
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1900 milliliters Water, hot
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70 grams Minor’s Beef Base, 6 x 1 lb
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2 grams Salt & Pepper
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15 grams French bread, sliced thin, toasted
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424 grams Gruyére cheese, mild, shredded
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1In a heavy-bottom pan, melt butter. Add onions, thyme, and garlic. Sauté, stirring frequently, until they turn a rich brown color, approximately 25 minutes. Once onions are brown, remove thyme stems and whole garlic cloves.
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2Add water and Beef Base to onions. Heat to boiling; stirring frequently. Reduce heat and gently simmer for 5 minutes. Season to taste.
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3For service: Portion 6-1/2 oz / 195 ml soup into heavy bowl. Place 2 slices of toasted French bread on top of soup (to float like a raft), and then place 2 oz / 56 g of cheese on top of bread. Place bowl of soup under a broiler until cheese is melted. Serve hot.
Products Used In This Recipe:
MINOR'S Beef Base is made from beef, with natural juices. Includes the superior blend of spices that enriches the beef taste and improves the taste of dishes. Makes fully seasoned beef stock for use in soups, stews, sauces, compound butters and gravies. Use as rub to enhance flavour and juiciness of meats. Use to marinate meat, to flavour ground meats, add to rice, grains and beans. This base has no preservatives and no artificial flavours.
For over 50 years, MINOR'S has given chefs the advantage of exploring their creativity with products that bring their culinary visions to life. Our line of flavourful bases, concentrates and sauces are designed to serve as a platform for inventing new, cutting-edge dishes with no prep time or labour. Our passion is to help you create signature items for your menu by offering exceptional, artisan flavours.
MINOR'S rich tradition of culinary expertise has provided over 50 years of time and labour saving bases. The fresh taste and the pure and natural flavours are the result of fresh ingredients, roasted meats, and sautéed vegetables. MINOR'S bases add flavour to soups, sauces, vegetables, pasta, rice, casseroles, salad dressings. They are very versatile and not just used to make soup stock. MINOR's Signature Flavour Concentrates are innovative products made with premium quality ingredients, specially blended with herbs and/or spices to provide a distinct flavour profile. MINOR's Signature Flavour Concentrates assure flavour consistency, superior quality, and tremendous labour savings for foodservice operators; especially in products that are difficult to make from scratch. Fully prepared recipe-ready flavours provide ultimate convenience.
It’s created in the kitchen and judged on each and every plate. It pushes every chef and pulls every diner. Since 1951, Minor's has understood that taste and flavour have to be perfect, that each patron has to be wowed and that the best tomorrow is based on what you serve today. Flavour Means Business.
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