French Onion Soup to warm your Soul for #Sunday Supper

When you think of soul warming, what kind of food do you think of? When it’s a cool crisp day and the leaves are blowing around and your nice warm and snug in a bug wrapped in a blanket on the couch, what do you like to be sipping on? Snacking on? Devouring? I didn’t have a fireplace growing up but I’m hoping some day in our future house we can sit by the fire and sip on our favorite Soul warming food……..French Onion Soup!

It’s funny because my husband doesn’t even like onions. Actually when I first started eating French Onion Soup years ago I didn’t like onions either, but the taste of the broth, the cheese melted on top of the mushy bread that has sunk into the soup is enough to make me eat a big ol’ bowl of it! Over the years the broth was so good I even started eating the onions because I always just want more! Yes I even eat the burnt cheese that pours over the edge of the bowl. 🙂 That’s how good it is. I’ve made a few different versions, crock pot style and stove top style, this time I wanted to try it in the crock pot again so I found a new recipe to try. It was perfect for the evening we ate it on. So thank you Susan from The Girl in the Little Red Kitchen, for hosting this awesome soul warming event!!

Slow Cooker French Onion Soup

Recipe Adapted by: SixtyOne45
Serves: 4

1 red onion, sliced thinly
1 white onion, sliced thinly
1 yellow onion, sliced thinly
1 large shallot, diced thin
5 garlic cloves, minced
2 T of butter
4 T balsamic vinegar
1 T Agave (or brown sugar)
3 tablespoons flour
1 bottle of medium to dark beer
1.5 litres of stock (beef or veggie)
2 T fresh thyme (plus some extra for garnish)
Salt and Pepper to Taste
Bread (toasted, for the top of each bowl)
Cheese (pick your favorite, hard to semi-hard)

Gruyere works best. For the top of each bowl. I tried Gruyere for the first time because I knew this was “the cheese” to make with French Onion soup, I’ve always used Swiss because I can buy it in reduced fat and I try to be healthier, this time I went all in and honestly……….we both prefer the swiss! We missed the stringy, wrap around your spoon kind of cheese!

Directions

Turn the crockpot to high. Add onions, garlic, sugar, butter and balsamic vinegar.

Cover, and let cook for at least two hours, stirring on occasion to brown the onions.

After one hour add the flour, beer, stock, thyme and salt and pepper. Reduce heat to low and cook for 8 hours.

Prior to serving, dish out soup portions into oven safe bowls. Cover each bowl with a piece of toasted bread, a drizzle of balsamic vinegar and a healthy pile of cheese. (I toasted my bread right in the toaster!)

If the soup was still hot, place the bowls under the broiler for 4 – 5 minutes, keeping as close eye. If the soup was cold, place in a 350 degree oven for15 minutes and then finish under the broiler until cheese melts. I even sprinkled some Thyme on top!

Then you get this awesome, soul warming, comforting dish to dive into.

Let’s see what the other kinds of foods warms my foodie friends soul!

Main Entrees: 

• Carrot, Parsnip and Lentil Casserole  – Happy Baking Days
• Chicken with Herbed Dumplings – Bobbi’s Kozy Kitchen
• Chicken pot pie – Gotta Get Baked
• Cholula Chicken Enchiladas – Kwistin’s Favorites
• Eggplant Parmesan – The Hand That Rocks The Ladle
• Roasted Roots and Fruits with Sausage – Shockingly Delicious

Chili/Stews:

• Beer-Braised Beef – Sustainable Dad
• Bigos {Authentic Polish Hunter’s Stew} – From Fast Food to Fresh Food
• Brunswick Stew and Rice – Big Bear’s Wife
• Calico Beans – Home Cooking Memories
• Carbonnade Flamande – The Girl In The Little Red Kitchen
• Chicken Cacciatore {Hunter Style Stew} with Easy Creamy Polenta –Webicurean
• Chicken & Mushroom Stew On Egg Noodles –  Galactosemia in PDX
• Cowboy Beef Stew – Comfy Cuisine 
• Ham and String Beans –  Cindy’s Recipes and Writings
• Hearty Moose Meatball Stew – Mrs. Mama Hen
• Jalapeno Popper Chicken Chili – Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
• Lentil and Chorizo Stew – Vintage Kitchen Notes
• Seafood Gumbo and Soul Warming #SundaySupper Wine Pairings – ENOFYLZ Wine Blog
• Soul Warming Hearty Beef Stew – In The Kitchen With KP

Soups:

• 30 Minute Black Bean Soup – Supper for a Steal
• Black Bean Soup – Basic and Delicious 
• Black Bean Soup with Hot Roast Pepper Cream – The Lovely Pantry
• Canadian Beer Cheese Soup – Juanita’s Cocina
• Chicken Soup with Dumplings – The Messy Baker
• Chicken Tortilla Soup – Dinners, Dishes and Desserts
• Coconut Curry Chicken Soup – Damn Delicious
• Easy Chicken and Dumplings – My Catholic Kitchen
• Easy Italian Wedding Soup – Family Foodie
• Easy Wonton Soup – Soni’s Food
• French Onion Soup – Momma’s Meals
• Homestyle Chicken and Dumplings – I Run For Wine
• Lasagna Soup – Cravings of a Lunatic
• Lemon Chicken Noodle Soup – Mangiamo
• Lentil and Bacon Soup – Small Wallet, Big Appetite
• Lentil Soup with Spinach – Mama’s Blissful Bites
• Peppery Mulligatawny Soup with Cherry Tomatoes & Cilantro – Sue’s Nutrition Buzz
• Pozolillo Verde {Green Chicken & Corn Pozole} – La Cocina de Leslie
• Red Lentil Soup with Crispy Aromatic Coriander – Chattering Kitchen
• Roasted Jalapeno Soup – Chocolate Moosey
• Rule of Thirds Soup – What Smells So Good?
• Seafood Chowder – Noshing with the Nolands
• Spanish Garlic Soup – Pippi’s In The Kitchen Again
• Spicy Gumbo Z’herbes – Pescetarian Journal
• Spicy Korean Brisket Soup {Yukgaejang} – Crispy Bits & Burnt Ends
• Spicy Seafood Noodle Soup {Jjamppong} – Kimchi Mom
• Spicy Udon Noodle Soup – My Trials In The Kitchen
• Turkey Noodle Soup – Magnolia Days
• Tuscan Bean Soup  – The Wimpy Vegetarian
• Twisted Chicken Noodle Soup – The Meltaways
• Warm You Up Spicy Bacon Cheeseburger Soup – Daily Dish Recipes

Desserts/Beverages:

• Hot Fudge Pudding Cake – That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• White Hot Chocolate with Orange – GirliChef

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