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Creamy Onion Soup Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Gennymac / All my dishes 1 month ago 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. Prep:10m Cook:120m Servings:8	Gennymac
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Ingredients

You need a full sized blender or food processor for this recipe.

4 large yellow or vidalia onions

1 large leek

3 cups baby bella mushrooms, sliced

3 stalks celery, sliced thinly and chopped

3 tsp fresh tarragon

4 cups homemade chicken or beef stock

4 cloves roasted garlic (not fresh, used roasted)

1/2 cup dry sherry (not cooking sherry, use the real thing)

2 cups heavy cream

6 tbs olive oil

Aged White Cheddar Cheese, Hard Parmesan Cheese, or Good Guyere Cheese (any one of these will work depending on individual tastes)

Directions

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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Comments

22566 1 month ago said:
I like French Onion Soup,quite well...but,believe that this very nice,rich onion soup would make me a convert.

Thank-you

Kind Regards

Joyce

californiacook 1 month ago said:
Luv the leeks, baby bellas & roasted garlic. A winner, for sure. Thank you for sharing. :)

hot_it_up 1 month ago said:
Californiacook said it all. \0

Jeff

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