Creamy Onion Soup
From gennymac 14 years ago
- 120 minutes to make
- Serves 8
Creamy version of home made onion soup, no sodium and very healthy. Serve in bread bowls or onion bowls. A take on several recipes we've tried and this is our version. Really good for a cold wet winter evening.
Ingredients
- You need a full sized blender or food processor for this recipe. shopping list
- 4 large yellow or vidalia onions shopping list
- 1 large leek shopping list
- 3 cups baby bella mushrooms, sliced shopping list
- 3 stalks celery, sliced thinly and chopped shopping list
- 3 tsp fresh tarragon shopping list
- 4 cups homemade chicken or beef stock shopping list
- 4 cloves roasted garlic (not fresh, used roasted) shopping list
- 1/2 cup dry sherry (not cooking sherry, use the real thing) shopping list
- 2 cups heavy cream shopping list
- 6 tbs olive oil shopping list
- Aged white cheddar cheese, Hard parmesan cheese, or Good Guyere Cheese (any one of these will work depending on individual tastes) shopping list
How to make it
- Slice onions into rings, cut into quarters.
- Use 2 tbs olive oil in large skillet, saute all onions for 20 mins.
- Cut leek greens off, leaving some light green. Put greens aside.
- Slice into quarter lengths, rinse dirt off, add to onions
- Continue to saute onions and leek till translucent and beginning to brown and carmelize.
- Pour dry sherry into mixture and reduce by 1/4.
- Set aside to cool slightly.
- Pour 1/2 stock and 1/4 of cream into blender
- Add all tarragon to liquid in blender
- Add 1/4 mushrooms to blender
- Add garlic to blender
- When onions are cool enough to work with, add 3/4 of leek & onion mixture into blender.
- Blend until all contents are pureed.
- In large dutch oven add remainder of olive oil, heat to medium.
- Saute remaining mushrooms and thinly sliced and chopped celery, until celery is translucent and mushrooms have released moisture.
- Add remaining 1/4 onion mixture to dutch oven, stirring ocassionally.
- Lower heat to simmer.
- Pour pureed mixture slowly into dutch oven.
- Stir often.
- Simmer for 1 hour.
- Serve hot, grate one of the cheeses over the top.
- Take leek greens and rinse dirt off, then slice thin strings from the green to use as garnish on top in bowl.
- Croutons made from garlic rubbed bread can be floated on top as well.
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Luv the leeks, baby bellas & roasted garlic. A winner, for sure. Thank you for sharing. :)
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