Onion soup? - Worth trying?

[Dumb Bitch Smoothie]

I literally just throw shit into my crock pot and forget about it for six hours when I want to make any sort of soup.

Crock pots are fantastic investments for even the most mentally challenged cooks and with the holiday season wrapping up you can get a big one for under $20.

Baked potato soup and clam chowder in a crock pot are great. There's tons of slow cooker specific recipes too.

 

[melty]

No. Those "onion soup" mix packets you see are not suggesting you actually make soup with them, they're only for making onion dip and maybe adding to recipes.
I've had really good french onion soup at a nice french bistro but you're probably not going to whip up some Julia Child approved onion soup right away.

 

[Dilligaff]

For shits and grins, here's a video about how to make French onion soup and you can decide if you're up for it or you'd like to try the simpler stew or other soups: Onion soup video.

 

[edboy]

That recipe is pleb shit. Jack's got you covered

 

[byuu]

Onion soup is my favourite laxative.

 

[Pistoleer]

I literally just throw shit into my crock pot and forget about it for six hours when I want to make any sort of soup.

Crock pots are fantastic investments for even the most mentally challenged cooks and with the holiday season wrapping up you can get a big one for under $20.

Baked potato soup and clam chowder in a crock pot are great. There's tons of slow cooker specific recipes too.

The appliances I recommend for people who don’t know how to cook or are just learning. A Crock Pot, a Rice Cooker, and more recently I’ve added an Air fryer to my recommendations.
Hell, with a Crock Pot you can got to the grocery store buy a big bag of frozen mixed vegetables, a bag of frozen homestyle meatballs, a container of beef broth, and a pack of onion soup mix. Throw all that together in a crockpot add enough water to cover it cook for a good 6hrs on med and you have made a good bit of decent beef stew for less than $20.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Not entirely related to the OP about making Onion Soup from scratch, but you know what is really good?

Getting Onion Soup in the dried packets..and mixing it with sour cream to make dip with.

Edit : Oh someone beat me too it, rate this late.

 

[CunningStunt]

Step 1: Buy Lipton onion soup mix.
Step 2: Soup isn't much of a meal. You want a meal.
Step 3: Dip sounds good, but you want food, not chips.
Step 4: Buy a crock pot and make a pot roast.

Ingredients:

• About 2 lbs of lean beef. The package will contain a chunk of cow and the words "roast". You don't care which cut of meat it is. Do not accidentally buy pork.
• One package Lipton onion soup mix
• A couple yellow onions, chopped
• Cooking oil (like canola)
• Salt and pepper to taste

1. Put a bit of cooking oil in a pan and brown the roast in it on all sides. Do this on medium-high heat. Do it quickly to sear the roast. It should not look red anywhere.
2. Dump your chopped onions in the bottom of the crock pot.
3. Place the roast on top. The onions are there to flavor it and keep it up off the bottom.
4. Combine the onion soup mix with a cup of water, then pour over your roast and into the crock pot. Crock pots always need some liquid in them to function.
5. Liberally salt and pepper the roast on the exposed sides.
6. Turn the crock pot on low. You'll be cooking it for about 6 hours.

Around hour 4, quickly turn the roast over and salt/pepper the newly exposed side. Resist the urge to open the crock pot every ten minutes. If you're feeling fancy, you can toss in eight small potatoes, a handful of baby carrots, and some short sticks of celery. You can eat them along with the roast.

After 6 hours, take out the roast and any vegetables (assuming the vegetables are done). If you want, you can strain all the solids out of the broth in the bottom and make gravy.

Gravy:

1. Heat the broth in a saucepan until it is bubbling. You can thicken it with cornstarch or flour. (Pro tip: put the flour or cornstarch into a small cup and add a few tablespoons of water. Stir it thoroughly before adding to the hot broth. This will help prevent lumps.)
2. Pour your thickener mixture in slowly, while stirring the broth.
3. Once it is all mixed in, take off the heat. You should have gravy.

Slice roast. It should be easy to cut. Top with gravy. Eat with vegetables.

This is some of the easiest food you will ever make. You just have to plan ahead and start in the morning if you want it ready for dinner.

Crock pots are awesome.