French Onion and Garlic Soup

By shriya on Jan 10, 2008 in Soups

French onion soup is a delectable and rich soup that’s rich in taste and great to devour. Onions and garlic give it a nice aroma (check your breath after though) and the bread chunks the great texture. This is my favorite starter any time I go to a restaurant in India. I tried this soup from Sanjeev kapoor’s Vegetarian Cookbook.

Ingredients:

Vegetable stock : 4 cup
Onion : 2(big)(cut length wise)
Cheese : 1/4 grated
Garlic : 5 (chopped)
Brown Bread : 3 slices
Olive oil : 2tbsp
White pepper powder : 1/4tspn
Salt : required to taste
Carrot : 1 medium (cut lengthwise)

Method Of Preparation:

Cut the bread into slices and just toast it with olive oil. Remove it from heat and keep it aside.
Fry the chopped garlic with little olive oil and keep it aside.
Heat the remaining olive oil in a pan and fry the onions till brown and just take a few fried onions for garnishing and keep it aside.
Add sliced carrots in to it and saute for few minutes.Add the fried garlic into it.
Now add the vegetable stock and bring it to boil and simmer for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle salt and white pepper powder. Remove it from heat.
when you serve soup , float the brown breads, sprinkle some grated cheese on top of it and some fried onions . Just microwave it for 30 seconds, so cheese will melt and float on top. Serve hot.

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12 Comment(s)

I love french onion soup.
I make them often as it is really healthy.

Happy Cook | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
one of my fav too!!! Thanx for dropping by my blog and leading me to yours!!! You have a nice collection… 41 recipes in the month of nov??!?! Im impressed!! gr8 going

Ramya | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
I found your blog accidentally too and thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for your kind comments. I guess my friend nithu and I had the beginner’s rush and it’s now back to normal pace.

shriya | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
For really crispy croutons, just rub a little oil over the bread cubes and heat them in the over for about 10 minutes.

Lekhni | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
your soup made me drool..good one..

lavanya | Jan 10, 2008 | Reply
Hi Shriya! The soup looks mouth watering.

Daily Meals | Jan 13, 2008 | Reply
Sounds good. Have had this at restaurents many times, but always thought it was too fancy to make at home. Your recipe sounds doable though. But any reason why white pepper is needed and not the regular one?

apu | Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
Its a matter of preference when its comes to using white or black pepper in this soup.White Pepper is usually used for its aesthetic aspects (light color) and slightly less heat.Welcome to SpicyTasty and thanks for taking the time to comment and hope to see you around.

shriya | Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
Hi Happy cook, yeah its very healthy.

Thanks lavi and Daily meals

Thanks for your suggestion lekhni I’ll try this, next time I make it.Thanks for stopping by.

shriya | Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
French Onion soup is really about the beef broth. A vegetarian version is nowhere close to the real thing.

Just Some Dude | Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. ‘Real thing’ is a very subjective word(s) and you can’t deny the fact that there are vegetarians out there.

shriya | Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
The soups looks quite mouthwatering.I wanted always to give it a try, but now that I have bookmarked this page, certainly going to give it a try.

Thanks for visiting my blog

Shibani

shibani | Mar 27, 2008 | Reply