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French Onion Soup

(recipe, Maura Berger)

Ingredients

  1. ¼ cup butter
  2. 3 large onions, sliced (about 4 cups)
  3. 1 tsp. sugar
  4. 1 Tbsp. flour
  5. 1 0.5 cup water
  6. ½ cup red wine
  7. 2 to 14 oz. cans beef broth

Steps

  1. In a saucepan, melt butter & cook down onions for 10 minutes. Sprinkle sugar over them after the first few minutes. Brown – do not burn.
  2. Stir in flour (optional) and let it get fully incorporated.
  3. Deglaze with wine – add the rest of the liquids – simmer 10 minutes.
  4. *
  5. I put a slice of a crusty bread (Italian or French) in a bowl. Slice of swiss or Provalone on top. Melt the cheese (hot oven, even microwave.