French Onion Soup | Basics with Babish

Sorry we're all on new year's diets and I'm still making unhealthy stuff - I shot all this back in the caloric heyday of December

My aunt said she didn’t like this soup. I made it for my grandpa’s birthday using homemade stock and everything. She likes this soup now

Kinda funny that the main ingredient to “French onion” soup is Spanish onions

When you use Spanish Onions and a Dutch oven to make French soup

Mr Worldwide

I’ve never once actually cooked anything Babish has made.

I just watch these videos and think “damn wish i could eat that”

"comfort for a cold winter's day"
forty degrees Celsius in Australia

Goodonya maaaaate.

Finally healing from COVID so I decided to make this today! Can't wait to relax and munch down.

I'm French and your version of the French onion soup looks very interesting. I would never have thought of Soy sauce ! I'll try it !
Looks very appetizing :p

For those who ask, "Spannish onions" are called "Oignon Jaune" here or "Yellow onion" in English which grow just as well in France .

"French Onion Soup"
uses Spanish Onions
French Fries: my true successor

This is my family's 140 year old french onion soup recipe:


Get your biggest dutch oven and put all this in it:


2 pounds yellow onions caramelized for 3-4 hours
enough butter to saute your onions
just enough flour to thicken your soup
beef broth enough to cover your onions with an inch to spare
EXTRA DRY VERMOUTH (about 1/3 of a standard bottle TO START, but you will end up using 1/2 if not all of it) <-------- this is the game changer yall
salt if you absolutely need it


Let the soup cook down until the smell becomes unbearably appetizing and you are literally eating it out of the pot (about 3-5 hours)


This recipe has been in my family for generations and though it is not fancy, it will be the best french onion soup you will ever have in your life. And to be extra authentic you can through an egg on top of your gruyere and baguette.


If i can dig out the actual recipe I will post measurements and such, but really this is family cooking so use your heart and follow your guts with this recipe.


From one random internet stranger to another,


Enjoy some bomb ass soup

Been wanting to make this for over a year. Bought a dutch oven, bought the bowls, hunted down all the ingredients. All for a lovely Valentine's dinner for my wife on this cold snowy day. Cut my finger and got to spend time getting stitches done. I put blood and tears into making this. All I can say it was worth it.

It was fantastic!! My family and I have been sick with the flu and this was just the comfort food we needed to nurse us back to normalcy.

Babish: Picks whole crouton out of soup on the first bite


Me: (tearing up) "A man after my own heart..."

His voice sounds like the voice of someone with hair

I’ve made this at least three times since seeing this video. Kept trying to find a better French onion soup recipe than what I had already. This one is the BEST.

Making and eating this has almost brought tears of happiness to my eyes. I've grown up eating and loving french onion soup in slightly meh french bistro-style chains in London like Cafe Rouge. I didn't realise it was achievable to make at home! Not only is achievable, it's so much better 🥲 thank you!

If this man opened a restaurant, I'd go there daily.

"Okay, so what's French About this?"

*Brings out the Baguette *

"Ah Okay then."

4:08 "lose your sense of taste for the next couple of days" is about to take on a whole new, more infectious meaning in the next few months.

I’ve been wanting French onion soup for so long. Can’t wait to try this!