Onion Soup Recipes

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Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

So who was it said Delia isn't fashionable :rotfl:

I love Delia! The Complete Illustrated Cookery Course was the first cook book I ever owned and I still use it on a daily basis!

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redruby

Thanks Guys,


delia it is then :rotfl: :T :j

I will try it next week on my day off

Sue

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Gingham_Ribbon

I've been wanting to try this for a while but not sure that veggie stock would work. Any ideas?

Terry_Tibs

I make Onion soup about once a month. I use my own veg stock as i dont like the idea of boiled cows bone in my soup. I find the best recipe is Rick Steins

http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/538668

Whatever recipe you use, try and get the best onions you can afford, and when you cook them its best to at least double the recommended sweating time so that the onions almost end up almost like marmite as the longer you cook them the better tasting your soup will be.

Two days before you make it buy some French bread and leave it go stale (then use as in the recipe) and only use Gruyère cheese for the top , dont use cheddar !

I always leave mine till the next day because as with many soups and stews they seem to develop their flavour more.

Mardrew

Pink-winged wrote: »

Hi redruby,

The only one I've ever tried is Delia's French onion soup...The croutons are well worth the trouble. It's delicious!

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My friend made this for our French theme evening last Saturday and it really was delicious. The best ever.

Mardrew

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Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

I've been wanting to try this for a while but not sure that veggie stock would work. Any ideas?

I think it will. As Terry Tibs says, I sweat my onions on very low for ages. This helps caramelsie them. Veggie stock will be fine, too. If it looks very pale I add a good slug of Worcs sauce (though this contains fish, so may not be appropriate ) or Marmite.

HTH, Penny. x

poodlehorse

A nice alternative to French Onion Soup is Cream of Onion soup, I have a good recipe somewhere but I can't lay my hands on it, suffice it to say I tinkered with that anyway and basically sweat the onions off and add stock and thyme (definitely the secret ingredient for onions) and rather than cream I added a small can of evaporated milk and it gave a lovely flavour. Much more English and really good and none of those scalding hot ribbons of onions you always get with the French sort that end up all over your lips and chin. You can blitz this soup to avoid that. Quick and cheap to prepare.

vixtress

probably a really silly question but what do you think about making delias soup with red onions? do you think it would be ok , its just that i have loads to use up and i have hm beef stock inb the freezer so it would be ideal.

might go a bit purple so i'm not sure

poodlehorse

I think it would taste fine but maybe be an odd colour, if you use red onions in something like a risotto then you get an odd grey colour to it. But in soup I hardly think you would notice as it all turns out brown anyway.

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Gingham_Ribbon wrote: »

I've been wanting to try this for a while but not sure that veggie stock would work. Any ideas?

Hi Gingham,

I was looking for something else and came across this thread that might be of use to you.

Veggie Onion Soup?

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