Classic Onion Soup with Cheese Bread

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 4 | Cook: 30min
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Classic onion soup with cheese bread is a recipe featuring fresh ingredients from the vegetable soup category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!

Ingredients

  • 600 g vegetable onions
  • 1 Garlic clove
  • 4 sprigs thyme
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 150 ml dry white wine
  • 800 ml meat broth
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 100 g alpine cheese
  • Salt
  • black pepper (freshly ground)
  • 12 small, narrow baguette slices
  • 1 tsp Caraway seeds

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Peel the onions, halve them and cut into thin half-rings. Peel the garlic and finely chop it. Wash the thyme, shake dry and pluck off the leaves. Heat the butter in a pot, sauté the onions and garlic until lightly browned. Deglaze with white wine and add the broth. Add the bay leaf and thyme leaves. Let the soup simmer gently for 15-20 minutes uncovered. In the meantime grate the cheese. Preheat the oven grill. Season the soup, remove the bay leaf, adjust salt and pepper, and ladle into oven-safe soup cups. Place the prepared bread slices on top and sprinkle with cheese.

  2. 2.

    Sprinkle caraway seeds and bake in the preheated oven under the grill until golden yellow.