Chef JP is a Facebook buddy of mine who is as passionate about food as anyone I know. I love the fact that his company is farm to table (meaning the products they use are high quality and well cared for). Here he has contributed a great recipe for French Onion soup. I love it!

Ingredients

  • 10 each yellow onions — julienned
  • 3 cloves garlic — crushed
  • 4 sprigs thyme — tied
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 4 Cups chicken stock
  • 4 Cups demi glace (or beef or veal stock)
  • 1 stick unsalted butter
  • ½ Cup sherry or brandy
  • salt and pepper — to taste

Slowly caramelize your onions in the whole butter until the onions give the appearance of melting and are nicely browned. Add garlic and saute a few minutes more. Deglaze with sherry or brandy. Add thyme, a bay leaf, and chicken stock plus demi glace or stock and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove from heat. Season.

At this point soup is best if cooled and refrigerated over night (let thyme bunch steep in soup until the next day). The next day remove thyme (OK to leave bay leafs in) and heat the amount of soup you need.

Either heat soup, top with crouton, gruyere, and parmesan and gratinee’ in the salamander or ladle the cold soup into crocks, top with the same items and bake at 325 degrees until bubbling and browned on top. BON APPETIT’

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About Chef Khoury

John Paul Khoury,CCC is the corporate Chef for Preferred Meats, Inc. They are dedicated to quality and freshness. Preferred Meats specializes in Wagyu beef, grass fed Hereford beef, natural Angus beef, Berkshire (Kurobuta)& Duroc pork, lamb, game birds, game meats, and specialty cured and smoked meats.

Preferred Meats was founded with a single goal in mind – To provide the highest quality products available. To develop this goal, Preferred Meats has focused on finding the highest quality products available, and then maintaining that quality. To accomplish this, we have gone to the growers and producers of our fine products to learn how their products are raised, handled, what they are fed, and how they are processed. Their on-line retail store will be coming soon, so keep checking back. www.preferredmeats.com.