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Yummy French Onion Soup
What you need:
4 large sweet onions (or just regular onions), sliced 2 tablespoons margarine 1 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 tablespoon dried mustard 2-3 tablespoons soy sauce 1/4 cup red wine ( I used Cabernet) 6 cups veggie stock (use a good one!) pepper, to taste
What you do:
1. Heat margarine in large stockpot over medium heat. Add onions, sugar, and salt. Cook for 1 hour (yes, 1 hour!), stirring frequently. 2. Add thyme, mustard, soy sauce, vegan wine, pepper, and a little more salt. Let vegan wine cook down for a few minutes. 3. Add veggie broth, bring just to a boil, and...its done! Serve with warm vegan french bread.'
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SO HOW'D IT GO?
I love this soup!
I LOVED this recipe. Before going vegan, I ate a can of Campbell's French Onion soup at least three times a week (seriously). I couldn't imagine what a vegan version would taste like, but this was stellar! :)>>> I did think it was a little bit too salty for my taste, but that will be easily remedied next time...which will probably be sometime next week.
I was also very impressed by how easy this recipe was. Just chopping and stirring!
I just made this tonight and at the last minute I realized I didn't have any soy sauce! Doh!!! So I substituted it with a little Vegemite and Worcestershire sauce. It came out very tasty anyway!
I can't believe that being such an onion liver like myself I have never made it. it was fantastic, thank you very much! ;)b
I've never had french onion soup before, so I'm not sure what it's supposed to taste like, but I enjoyed it. However, I don't know if I would have enjoyed it as much if I hadn't made that awesome cheese mentioned in a previous review. That was awesome! I slathered it on some italian bread and dropped it in my bowl. I then proceeded to use the leftover cheese on everything I ate all weekend. As for the soup, it was good....my husband said it reminded him of eating boiled onions - I only cooked the onions for about 30 minutes - I'm impatient. Maybe it would have been better if I had followed the directions properly. But I still ate all of the leftovers. I only used 3 onions and no-beef bouillon cubes instead of veggie broth.
really, really good! cooked the onions on low for the whole hour, used somewhere in between the tsp and Tbsp measurements for ingredients. i used homemade veg stock (carrot peels, squash skin, celery ends, onion peels, kale stems, etc) and this probably made it over-the-top good.
make this RIGHT NOW!!
I used a blend of Vidalia, White, and Red Onions.
Unlike most here, I cooked the onions the full hour (it was a low maintenance chore really. They took care of themselves).
I'm SO glad I did. It was well worth the caramelized creaminess they added to the soup. we served it with toasted square of bread with swiss uncheese on top. I used a blend of Vidalia, White, and Red Onions.This was far better than the non-vegan onion soups of my past. I think we'll be making this for more than just the holidays, lol.
AWESOME. I used vegan not-beef bouillion cubes for the broth and Orlean Hill's Syrah for the wine, and topped mine with the faux-cheese-on-bread substitute (an excellent compliment) recommended in the second page of comments. This is my favorite onion soup recipe out of, like, four or five attempts. Yum.
This was wonderful! I've had no luck finding a good vegan french onion soup recipe, so both me and my meat-eating-french-onion-soup-loving boyfriend are really happy to have found this recipe. I cooked it exactly as prescribed, and it was fabulous! Thanks for sharing!
I have made this several times now and it seems to come out best for me when I use "Better than Bouillon" vegetable base or the Savory Broth packets from Trader Joe's rather than a box of no-chicken broth or vegetable stock. Sometimes I mix the two also. I am sure what I am using has far more salt than one person needs but I assume it had to be better than fast food anyday!!!!
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