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Recipe by Brynie Greisman

Best Dairy Onion Soup Ever

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Dairy Dairy
Easy Easy
10 Servings
Allergens
1 Hour, 40 Minutes
Diets

My daughter and I ate in a restaurant that had the most incredible onion soup. I’m not usually an onion soup fan, but this one had the perfect texture and flavor. We recreated it here for all of you. It’s so good that when we made a dairy sheva brachos for my niece and had a choice for the soup, almost everyone took this.

Ingredients

Main ingredients

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter

  • 8 small-medium onions, sliced

  • 3 garlic cloves, sliced

  • 1/2 cup flour (Shibolim Whole Wheat Flour or other whole wheat pastry is fine)

  • 2 tablespoons onion soup mix

  • Haddar Kosher Salt, to taste (be generous)

  • black pepper, to taste

  • pinch nutmeg

  • 1 (10-oz./280-g.) can sliced mushrooms (optional, but recommended)

  • 3 tablespoons Herzog Selection Chateneuf Bordeaux or other semidry white wine

  • croutons, for garnish

  • Parmesan cheese, for garnish

  • shredded cheese, for garnish

  • feta cheese cut into tiny cubes, for garnish

Directions

Prepare the Soup

1.

Melt butter in a four to five-quart pot. Add onions and garlic and sauté over low heat (this is crucial) until golden, about 25–30 minutes, stirring constantly. Turn up the heat for the last five minutes. Add flour and mix in well.

2.

Add seven to eight cups of water (depending on how thick you like your soup) and bring to a boil. Add onion soup mix, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and cook for 40 minutes. Add mushrooms, if desired, five minutes before the end. Add wine and stir.

3.

Remove soup from heat. Taste and adjust flavorings accordingly. Garnish if desired.

4.

For a special occasion, serve in bread bowls. Soup can be frozen.

Notes:

I almost never use canned mushrooms. Here, I used them for convenience and to add more texture to the soup. The flavor isn’t prominent.

Credits

Photography: Hudi Greenberger Food Styling: Janine Kalesis

Best Dairy Onion Soup Ever

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Rifky Rottenstein
Rifky Rottenstein
4 years ago

dairy onion soup What suggestion do you have to replace the onion soup mix?

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Raquel
Raquel
Reply to  Rifky Rottenstein
4 years ago

You can use vegetable or meat-less chicken bouillon. If you don’t have either of those then you can just leave it out and add your favorite spices to it.

Miriam D
Miriam D
4 years ago

Can I skip the wine? If I don’t have the wine can I skip it? Or it won’t be the same? Should I substitute it for something else?

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Raquel
Raquel
Reply to  Miriam D
4 years ago

You can skip it, you can add some veggie stock if you’d like.

Rachel
Rachel
1 year ago

My connoisseur children couldn’t get enough of this!

Nechama R
Nechama R
2 years ago

Beat onion soup by far!!

Rochel
Rochel
3 years ago

This is the best onion soup recipe I’ve ever made

Gitti Grossnass
Gitti Grossnass
3 years ago

Absolutely delicious! I used a bay leaf instead of wine and really packed a punch.

Rachel Lefkowitz
Rachel Lefkowitz
3 years ago

This soup was super delicious!

Fay Friedman
Fay Friedman
5 years ago

French onion Delicious soup and easy to make just like the restaurant in

Chaia Frishman
Chaia Frishman
Reply to  Fay Friedman
5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback.