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French Onion Soup

Deeply caramelized onions in broth, topped with toasted bread and melted swiss.

French Onion Soup, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
75 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$10.81

Ingredients

  • 6 yellow onions
  • 4 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine (cooking)
  • 6 cup vegetable broth
  • 1 tsp dried thyme
  • 1 bay leaves
  • 1 french baguette
  • 6 oz sliced swiss cheese

Method

  1. Slice all the onions thinly. Cook them in the butter and oil over medium-low heat for 40 minutes, stirring often, until deep brown and jammy.

  2. Stir in the flour and cook 2 minutes.

  3. Add the wine and scrape the pan, then the broth, thyme and bay leaf. Simmer 20 minutes and season with salt.

  4. Toast thick slices of baguette under the broiler.

  5. Ladle the soup into oven-safe bowls, float a toast on each and cover with swiss.

  6. Broil until the cheese bubbles and browns, then serve carefully.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£49.15£12.2910 of 10 ingredients
Canada$98.54$24.6410 of 10 ingredients
United States$43.23$10.819 of 10 ingredients
Australia$59.45$14.869 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$73.71$18.439 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬١٦٠٫٧٣ ج.م.‏‏٢٩٠٫١٨ ج.م.‏9 of 10 ingredients
Germany33,93 €8,48 €9 of 10 ingredients
Greece36,59 €9,15 €8 of 10 ingredients
Spain13,67 €3,42 €8 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$851.16$212.797 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 17,23*€ 4,316 of 10 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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