I made beef stock for the first time and then used it to make some of the best soup I've ever had – French Onion!

Shout out to my wife for helping me transfer the stock into containers and for volunteering to chop all those onions 🥲❤️

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  1. Recipe

    Beef Stock:

    About 4.5 lbs of beef with bones
    -Marrow bones
    -bone in short rib
    -oxtails

    5 Carrots
    5 stalks of Celery
    2.5 onions
    3 medium tomatoes
    Head of garlic
    8 sprigs of Parsley
    8 sprigs of Thyme
    4 Bay leaves
    6 Allspice
    10 peppercorns

    Olive oil
    Tomatoe paste
    2 Tbsp of apple cider vinegar
    Water (7-8 qts roughly)

    Instructions

    Roasted meat/bones, garlic and half of the mirepoix mix coated with olive oil at 450F for about 30 minutes. Removed baking pan and spread tomatoes paste on the meats and veggies before roasting again for another 10 minutes.

    Added everything into a pot along with herbs, seasonings and covered with water. Set to simmer for about 9 hours.

    Put the stock into fridge and skimmed the fat off the top the next day.

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    French onion soup:

    2 – 2.5 lbs of yellow onions
    6 cups of beef stock
    2 Tbsp of butter
    1 Tbsp of olive oil
    1 Tsp of sugar
    2 Tbsp of flour
    3 Tbsp of Worcestershire sauce
    1/4 cup of sherry wine
    Water to deglaze onions during caramelization
    Salt/pepper to taste

    Several croutes off a French baguette (2 days old)
    Parmigiano Reggiano
    Gruyere cheese
    Chives to top.

    Instructions

    Cut up all the onions and threw them into a 6 qt pot with melted butter/olive oil over medium heat. Cooked covered for about 10 minutes. Uncovered the pot, added some salt and mixed the onions. I lowered the heat to a little under medium, added the sugar and stirred very frequently for the next hour or so, deglazing the pot with just water everytime fond formed.

    Once the onions were caramelized to my liking, I deglazed the pot with the sherry and cooked it out for another couple of minutes. I next added the flour through a strainer (so as not to clump) while continuously mixing the onions.

    Next, I added the beef stock /Worcesterwhite sauce and let it simmer for about 40 minutes. Added salt and pepper to taste after it was nearly finished. While it was simmering, prepared croutes (toasted with olive oil for about 5 min at 325F), cheese and chives.

    Once the soup was done, I put croutes at the bottom of my oven safe bowls, added the soup, then added a layer of the parmigiano and finally topped with the Gruyere. I broiled the bowls at about 500F for approx 5 minutes (just watched the layer of cheese until I was happy with the results).

    Topped with chives and enjoyed!

  2. truthtakest1me on

    This looks awesome and I also got these same bowls when I made my French onion soup! LOL.

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