French Onion Soup -- Crockpot!!
 

Thank you! Onions are on my grocery list now!

Another time/work saver is to use croutons atop the serving (they're already 'toasted' and seasoned) rather than toasting bread under the broiler. You can even nuke the serving bowl to melt the cheese or do it under the broiler.

Oh yes ... the micro is my friend too ... all I need is for it to soften up the cheese to make it gooey.

A lot of the time I don't bother to shred the cheese and just just plop a slice of swiss cheese on top and the zap it/

Though the crusty cheese from the broiler is so much nicer and well worth the extra effort!

I never made onion soup before. What kind of onions did you use in your recipe...white, yellow, red, sweet? Thanks.

This soup sounds great. I'll be having a soup supper in several weeks and will make 2 kinds ... this will be one of them! Thanks for sharing.

thanks so much, I have a new bag of onions, several cans of beef broth and my crock pot is sitting on the kitchen counter, so I'm making some today. May in Jersey

Just reading this made my mouth water. I'm off to the store in the am to purchase sweet onions and croutons. Most onions give me heartburn, but sweet ones (Florida Sweet or Georgia vildalia) do not. I can hardly wait for dinner tomorrow night. Yum yum.
Thanks QuiltE, for sharing this recipe.

Wow! Thanks for sharing this. I have only made homemade onion soup once. It was great, but it took hours to caramelize the onion on the stove top. I had no idea it was such a process. Can't wait to try using the crock pot.

The joy of this is you can set it to brew .... and go off and sew, with no need to fret about it! :)

While we are on the subject of onions and the crock pot - it pays to put those onions in the fridge overnight before you start chopping/slicing, etc. I used to hate handling large quantities of onions until I started doing this - now I can do the batch pretty much tear-free.

Onion soup is one of my favorites, thanks so much for sharing this easy recipe.

It's become one of my favourites too ... I can put it on to brew, forget about it and head to the sewing room!! What better?



It works great, doesn't it!!! :)

Thanks, I will be making this one too. I make it on the stove and it is slow, and needs watched. This sounds so easy.
When I make it though, I sometime cheat and use croutons instead of bread, I find it doesnt taste soo gooey. And for a nice flavor add a teeny bit of Dijon mustard to your cheese. Yummy

This is so on my list of recipes to try - will have to try it this weekend.

Here's another recipe of it to try. This was in one of the first Crockpot recipe books, 40 years ago and this is the recipe I have used, that long. Am waiting for it to cool to fall here in FL so I can fix it. It'll beat any recipe, homecooked or in a restaurant.

CROCKPOT FRENCH ONION SOUP
3 large onions, thinly sliced
1/2 cup butter or margarine
6 beef bouillon cubes
4 cups hot water
1 Tbs. Worcestershire sauce
Sliced French bread (or you can use croutons)
Grated Parmesan cheese

In large skillet, cook onions in butter until lightly browned. In the crockpot, combine browned onions in the butter, with the bouillon cubes, water, Worcestershire sauce and salt. Cover and cook on low four to six hours. Makes four servings. To serve, top each bowl of soup with a toasted slice of French bread then sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.

My tips are, I always double the recipe, because it's excellent reheated and I never add the salt, the bouillon cubes tend to be salty. This soup smells so good cooking all day. Hope you enjoy.

Looks like I need a crockpot :D

Yes indeed ... it's the best thing ... you can let it do it's thing while you do your thing (ie sit and sew!)

QuiltE, I tried your recipe today and the soup is delicious! As you suggested, I substituted butter for oil, and used sweet onions thinly sliced with my mandolin.

It's nice that you don't have to caramelize the onions in a separate pan, so only one pot gets dirty. I did put paper towels across the top of the pot under the cover to collect moisture while the onions were caramelizing.

I made a couple of loaves of French bread while waiting on the soup. Thank you for the recipe, the flavor of this soup is fantastic.

Can I use beef broth instead of consomme?

I've found vidalia onions make the best soup.

This sounds SO GOOD! Thanks for the recipe!

Broth or Consomme? Thank you for the response - I just always have the broth on hand - figured it wouldn't make a huge difference - going to sign out of here and go get my slicer out and get some soup going for dinner tonight - I am so excited to try this ...

Just got my onions, butter, pepper and sugar into the crock pot - today was one of the many times I have appreciated my slicer (it is almost 30 years old and still going). Having the slicer made it easy to slice the onions uniformly (1/4") was what I chose and it went really fast - I actually think it took more time to peel the outer skin than to slice them. Now that this is done, I am off to quilt at the local quilt shop with some friends this afternoon - can hardly wait to come back home and smell my dinner ... lol

QuiltE this recipe sounds wonderful and is going on my to do list (kitchen version). Thanks for sharing. I think it would be a wonderful one for fall camping too.

You bet! .... so long as DH loves onions!!!! :)
How as the IPM? (I know, wet!)... and are you heading to the RAWF?

My DH likes "food" :-)

We really enjoyed the IPM and since we were not on site on opening day we missed the rain and mud. We did have rain around the noon hour on Thursday and the tented city was a little "greasy" for a couple of hours, but it was surprising how quickly it dried out (a benefit of a sand/loam site). We booked an rv site for next year.

We don't have any plans to go the Royal (my nephew isn't showing there this year), but we don't have much planned beyond Thanksgiving right now (b'days of the two youngest grands)

A good man he is ... like food ... and probably a typical farmer, who cares what, so long as there's lots of it and it's good!

Glad things went so well at the IPM for you ... good you missed the start! Yes, pretty nice land in that area, that I figured it should dry out easy enough. Quite a change from the previous time it was at that location ... hot and windy ... talk about sandstorm! I was a long time getting over that with all the crud in my throat/lungs!

Next year? ... isn't that virtually on your doorstep? Or am I confuse don the years?

RAWF ... if you're going, it's looking like I'lll be there throughout. To be confirmed, but right now it seems like it will be.

Talk to you later ...... and let me know about that soup!

Yes, next year it is in Mitchell, celebrating 100 years back where it all began. We are going to the RV park anyway since the camping fee includes the armbands for the week and there is entertainment every night too. Lots of fun.

I knew the Centennial Celebrations were next year, but did not know the significance of the location. Will it be on the same site as well? WOW!

Are you going to be involved in the planning and prep?
At least get yourself on the Quilt Committee! :)

I hear the partying at the site is the reason to go ... so good for you for doing so, rather than saying, oh can come from home! :)

I love Onion soup. I was at a French Restuarant and they had the best soup I had ever had and I asked them about it. They said they used Chicken broth instead of beef. It gave it a mellow flavor. That is now how I make it.

I may try this soon! Only going to be 85 degrees today so that is fall in FL!

Next I will try it this way!

Alas! I finally posted the Creamed Onion recipe I promised .....

http://www.quiltingboard.com/recipes...k-t202928.htmll

Raw onions, I thank you not.
Cooked onions ... oh how sweet it is! :)

QuiltE,
We made this recipe while camping last week and it was a hit. My BIL & SIL also thought it was GREAT. The trailer did smell a litttle like a hot dog truck (fried onions) but it was well worth it :-)

Glad it was enjoyed by all!!
... but Oh Myyy .... nice smell when cooking, but lingering? ... I'm not sure! :)
For your onion loving family, try the creamed ones.
Plus they are a perfect addition to your Christmas Turkey's trimmings too.

This sounds soooo good, I have to try it.