Jan 24 2009
French Onion Soup…Veggie style
It’s chilly soup weather here. One of my family’s favorite soups is a vegetarian version of French Onion Soup.
To make it you’ll need:
2 Large yellow onions. About 1 large yellow onion per person/serving (it may seem like a lot but the onion shrinks when you fry it)
1 Vegetable bouillon cube.
Approximately 3 cups of water.
5 stale pieces of bread. You can place your bread on a tray in a preheated 300’ oven and then turn the oven off so the bread dries up without burning.
Approximately 2 cups of shredded marble cheese.
Olive oil.
Salt, pepper, garlic, cayenne and any other spices you like can be added to taste.
Cooking Instructions:
First step is to soften the chopped onions. Heat and stir the onions over medium heat with 1 tbsp of olive oil. You’ll know when the onions are done because they’ll be starting to brown on the edges.
Add the water and stir in the bouillon to the pot. You can also add spices at this time.
Let the onion soup base simmer while you chop up your stale toast into croutons and shred your cheese.
You’ll want to place the soup into oven safe bowls. The bowl will be about ¾ full of your soup base, place half of your dried bread chunks into each bowl (this will soak up some of the liquid) and then half of your shredded cheese on top.
Bake at 350’ for about 15minutes or until the cheese is nicely melted, like a pizza.
Let it cool for a few minutes before eating. It will be HOT!
Enjoy!
Here’s a couple more of my favorite soup recipes found online:
http://theppk.com/recipes/dbrecipes/index.php?RecipeID=2061
Chickpea noodle soup
http://ginews.blogspot.com/2008/11/low-gi-recipes-of-month.html
White bean, carrot & ginger soup
