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Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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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. 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:
1. Slice onions into rings, cut into quarters.
2. Use 2 tbs olive oil in large skillet, saute all onions for 20 mins.
3. Cut leek greens off, leaving some light green. Put greens aside.
4. Slice into quarter lengths, rinse dirt off, add to onions
5. Continue to saute onions and leek till translucent and beginning to brown and carmelize.
6. Pour dry sherry into mixture and reduce by 1/4.
7. Set aside to cool slightly.
8. Pour 1/2 stock and 1/4 of cream into blender
9. Add all tarragon to liquid in blender
10. Add 1/4 mushrooms to blender
11. Add garlic to blender
12. When onions are cool enough to work with, add 3/4 of leek & onion mixture into blender.
13. Blend until all contents are pureed.
14. In large dutch oven add remainder of olive oil, heat to medium.
15. Saute remaining mushrooms and thinly sliced and chopped celery, until celery is translucent and mushrooms have released moisture.
16. Add remaining 1/4 onion mixture to dutch oven, stirring ocassionally.
17. Lower heat to simmer.
18. Pour pureed mixture slowly into dutch oven.
19. Stir often.
20. Simmer for 1 hour.
21. Serve hot, grate one of the cheeses over the top.
22. Take leek greens and rinse dirt off, then slice thin strings from the green to use as garnish on top in bowl.
23. Croutons made from garlic rubbed bread can be floated on top as well.
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