Healthy French Onion Soup

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 tablespoon organic, grass-fed unsalted butter
• 4 yellow onions

  thinly sliced
• 3 cups low sodium beef broth
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon sea salt

  plus more to taste
• ½ teaspoon pepper to taste

  plus more to taste
• ½ cup low sodium chicken broth
• 1 tablespoon chickpea flour
• French baguette

  sliced into ½-inch slices (whole grain if possible)
• 4 1-oz slices provolone cheese

  (can also be shredded)

Instructions

• 1 Melt butter in a deep stock pot [https://amzn.to/3NQ5Bry?tag=wwwasweetpeac-20]
  or Dutch oven [https://amzn.to/47u8llg?tag=wwwasweetpeac-20] over medium-high
  heat.
• 2 Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until tender and browned, about
  15-20 minutes.
• 3 While onions are cooking, heat the oven broiler.
• 4 Add beef broth, balsamic vinegar, thyme, salt, and pepper and bring to a simmer.
• 5 In a small bowl, combine the chicken broth with the flour and then add to the
  onion mixture. Cook for an additional 10 minutes.
• 6 Line a baking sheet [https://amzn.to/37M0ZAV?tag=wwwasweetpeac-20] with tin foil
  and place the baguette slices down flat. Use 2-3 per person, depending on the
  size of your serving bowl. Place into oven and broil for 1-2 minutes per side,
  until golden brown. Remove from oven but leave broiler on.
• 7 Ladle the onion soup evenly into 4 oven-safe serving bowls, starting with the
  onions and then with the liquid.
• 8 Place 2-3 baguette slices atop each bowl, followed by a slice of provolone
  cheese.
• 9 Place bowls on the baking sheet [https://amzn.to/37M0ZAV?tag=wwwasweetpeac-20]
  you used for the baguettes and broil until the cheese is bubbly and golden,
  about 5 minutes.

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