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Dinner · 50 min · 2 bowls

French onion soup

Onions until they are mahogany, not blonde. Stock, thyme, bread, cheese under a broiler if you have one. Gruyère would be traditional; cheddar melts.

The sheet · 2 bowls · 50 min

medium

Why tonight. Onions until they are mahogany, not blonde. Stock, thyme, bread, cheese under a broiler if you have one. Gruyère would be traditional; cheddar melts.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • onion
  • stock
  • bread
  • cheddar
  • thyme

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: white wine.

Method

  1. Onions in fat until they are mahogany. This is the whole job. Don't rush them blonde.
  2. Stock and thyme. Simmer until it tastes like onion, not water.
  3. Bread, cheese, a minute under heat if you have it. Gruyère is traditional; cheddar melts.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

onion
The base under most of this library.
stock
Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.
cheddar
Sharpness plus melt. Aged cheddar tastes like more and melts like less, so a dish that wants both usually wants a mix — grate it, do not slice it, and take the pan off the heat before it goes in.
thyme
The most patient herb here — it survives long cooking, which almost nothing green does.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

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