Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Simple French Onion Soup

Simple French Onion Soup.

You can cook Simple French Onion Soup using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Simple French Onion Soup

1. You need of unsalted butter.
2. You need of olive oil.
3. Prepare of sliced onions.
4. Prepare of cans beef broth.
5. Prepare of dry sherry.
6. Prepare of dried thyme.
7. You need of salt and pepper to taste.
8. You need of French bread.
9. It's of provolone cheese.
10. It's of Swiss cheese, diced.
11. Prepare of grated Parmesan cheese.

Simple French Onion Soup step by step

1. Melt butter with olive oil in an 8 quart stock pot on medium heat. Add onions and continually stir until tender and translucent. Do not brown the onions..
2. Add beef broth, sherry and thyme. Season with salt and pepper, and simmer for 30 minutes..
3. Heat the oven broiler..
4. Ladle soup into oven safe serving bowls and place one slice of bread on top of each (bread may be broken into pieces if you prefer). Layer each slice of bread with a slice of provolone, 1/2 slice diced Swiss and 1 tablespoon Parmesan cheese. Place bowls on cookie sheet and broil in the preheated oven until cheese bubbles and browns slightly..