Tuesday, January 29, 2008

jamie oliver's english onion soup


saw this in Jamie at Home...he used simple, fresh ingredients from his gardens to whip up this soup, but we didn't exactly follow the complete recipe...




onions (lots of them, maybe around 20-30 - a mixture of the different types would be nice), sliced roughly

leeks (it's basically a giant spring onion), sliced

stock (beef, chicken,etc)

oil

vegetables (eg carrots, broccoli, capsicum, cellery, potato, whatever u like, really)

beef or chicken pieces




Cook the onions and leeks in a bit of oil on slow heat. Cook it down for 25-30 minutes until it breaks down into a brown mush (it doesn't look pretty, but trust me, the taste is dinamite. cooking the onions slowly releases the natural sugar and caramelise the onions).

Pour in your hot stock. Bring to boil and add in the meat, and the rest of the veges. Cook until the meat and veges are tender.

1 comment:

zaitgha said...

my big boy cooked beef stew which had similar ingredients plus some herbs and minus the leek...turned quite good also but did not look so appetising ek ha ha ha

we had it with garlic bread yum yum...yours should tasted good too