Onion soup

I've been thinking of having a go at onion soup, as I have a load of onions that are going a bit past their best. So I've read on t'interweb how you make it, and it seems it is pretty much onion gravy.

Well, I like onion gravy with a bit of roast beef and yorkshires, but not really as a soup.

Any suggestions as to how I could make a simple yet delicious and wholesome (and preferably snot/lurgy blasting) soup using my surplus onions?

 

French Onion soup. It's like Bovril full of fried onions. Should clear a bit of a passageway. Both ends, probably.

 

I love french onion soup yet still haven't got round to making my own.

Are you 100% sure you want to make a soup? I'd personally make all those onions into a caramelized onion chutney that will keep for at least and year and tastes divine with cheese.

 

What a great idea, I just love onion chutney, it's wonderful.

 

Pretty much it.

I don't measure stuff - sorry! Just follow your nose and taste buds.
Sauté the onions (lots of them, quartered and thinly sliced) and some garlic (not too much) and (if desired) a few chilli flakes in some butter. I use ground pepper in this dish. Then when soft........
a] add a slug of brandy
or
b] add some tomato puree
or
c] neither and carry on to.................
Add a hearty beef stock and gently simmer for a goodly while.
I like to hold some onion back to cut into segments which I add before serving and simmer for 3 or 4 minutes to get a bit of crunch and fresh onion flavour.

The proper way is to put sliced french stick on top of the soup, top with cheese and bake till the cheese has melted and golden just before serving. I just toast the stick/cheese (just the "top") under the grill and place these on the top.

 

I like the sound of that, but I don't have enough to make chutney I don't think. I probably have about a pound of them left.

 

You have surplus onions!!!?????
Cor, I lurve onions and will eat them with pretty much anything.

Cold remedy? I have a vague recollection of my mother boiling a whole onion, serving it with a dribble of butter and after I'd eaten that ... made me drink the cooled water it had boiled in! Mind you, when you are that congested the ole taste buds are sadly lacking and I'd have eaten anything and not really tasted it.

My vote goes to the French Onion soup

 

I witch that I know sprinkles sugar onto a plate, then cuts an onion in half and stands both halves such that the cut side is down, in contact with the sugar. It then goes in the fridge for several hours, where the sugar draws the onion juice out. This is then served by the teaspoon as you would take off the shelf liquid medicines. The patient is never cured by this, they just cease complaining because they know that any further complaint will result in another dose.

 

Go nice with a curry, that would.

 

What would? The onion or the witch?

 

I don't use old money measurements but I highly recommend this recipe, which uses 6 or 7 onions. I made a couple of jars f the stuff and it's just as good as the ones you get in the shop.

http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/6595/caramelised-onion-chutney.aspx

 

Probably better!

 

Indeed but I think it works out as almost as expensive as just buying a jar in the store. Once you've bought all the onions and vinegar.

One of the reasons I want an allotment is so I can grow tons of red onions to make chutney on tap.