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Carmelized Onion Shitake Soup With Gruyere Blue Cheese Toasts Recipe


Carmelized Onion Shitake Soup With Gruyere Blue Cheese Toasts Recipe
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Ingredients
  • Soup
  • 1 Tbl olive oil
  • 8 C vertically sliced yellow onion (about 2 lbs)
  • 5 C sliced shitake caps (about 10 oz whole)
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 3 thyme sprigs
  • 1/2 C dry white wine
  • 1 (14 oz) can fat free, low sodium chicken broth
  • 1 (14 oz) can fat free, low sodium beef broth
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp pepper
  • Toasts
  • 12, 1/2 inch thick slices French baguette, toasted
  • 1/4 C (1 oz) Gruyere
  • 1/4 C ( 1 oz0 crumbled Gorgonzola
  • 1/2 tsp finely chopped fresh thyme or 1/4 tsp dried

Directions
  1. Soup
  2. Heat oil in a large pan over medium high
  3. Add onion to pan; saute 15 mins over medium low or until tender and a deep golden brown(about 40 minutes), stirring occasionally
  4. Increase heat to medium
  5. Add mushrooms to pan; cook 10 mins. or until tender, stirring frequently
  6. Increase heat to medium high
  7. Stir in garlic and thyme sprigs; cook 2 minutes or until most of the liquid evaporates
  8. Add broth to pan; bring to simmer
  9. Reduce heat and simmer 45 minutes
  10. Stir in salt and pepper and discard thyme sprigs
  11. Preheat broiler
  12. Arrange bread slices in a singl;e layer on a baking pan
  13. Top each with 1 tsp of both cheeses
  14. Broil 2 minutes or until cheese is melted
  15. Sprinkle thyme over cheese
  16. Ladle about 1 cup soup into each of 6 bowls; top each serving with 2 toasts

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Yum Yum!!


Sounds fantastic!


Great recipe ... can't wait to make it... five forks


Oh boy I have to make this I love it!!!!!!!!!! and also thank you for the high five on the watermelon salsa...best and have a good one now...Susie


Thank you from Les for this one....He just adores any kind of mushroom and if he's good, I'll make it for him...LOL...:)


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