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Made with slow caramelized onions, a rich broth, and melty vegan Gruyère, this French onion soup is the stuff vegan dreams are made of! It's not the fastest vegan French onion soup you can make, but it may be the tastiest!
Follow along with the recipe here: https://www.stephsunshine.com/vegan-life/vegan-french-onion-soup/
For the vegan Gruyère recipe video: https://youtu.be/vYVJ73Lg9R8
or get the written recipe on my website: https://www.stephsunshine.com/vegan-life/vegan-gruyere-cheese/
Or search all my vegan recipes here: https://www.stephsunshine.com/vegan-life/all-recipes/
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sweet caramelized onions, a rich broth,
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a baguette slice, and vegan gray cheese.
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This little bowl is the French onion
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soup that vegan dreams are made of.
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Welcome back. If we haven't met yet, I
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am Steph, and I love shattering people's
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expectations of what vegan food should
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taste like. If that sounds like fun to
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you, you are in the right place. So,
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let's get started. Okay, so first we're
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just going to start by slicing up three
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pounds of onions and mincing three
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garlic cloves. My garlic cloves are a
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little small, so I'm actually using
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four. You also want to make sure that
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you have prepared some vegan grayer
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cheese in advance and shredded it,
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unless you want to use storebought vegan
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cheese, which you can do that, too. I
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will put a link in the description to
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the video with the gray recipe if you
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want to check that out. Okay, so next
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you just want to get a heavy bottom
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stock pot and add 1/4 cup of vegan
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butter. Um, heat that up on medium heat.
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Let it melt. And then you're just going
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to add your onions and toss them with a
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wooden spoon. You're going to keep
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stirring occasionally until the onions
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are nice and soft. And then we're going
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to reduce the heat to medium low. If
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your onions are starting to turn brown
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within, you know, 5 to 10 minutes, then
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your heat is too high. you want to turn
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it down. Our goal here is to caramelize
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the onions, get them nice and sweet. We
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don't want to brown them. So, depending
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on your stove top and your pot, um
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caramelizing this many onions can take
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between an hour to an hour and a half.
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Uh you don't need to be stirring them
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the whole time, but you do want to check
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on them occasionally. Give them a stir,
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and if the pot is drying out, you can
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just add a little bit of water or even
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some vegetable broth to delaze it. Okay,
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so now that these onions are nice and
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caramelized, I am going to add the
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garlic. And I'm going to let it cook for
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another minute. Um, and then I'm going
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to add in 2 tablespoon of flour. I'm
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going to let that cook for a minute
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longer. Just stirring here and there. So
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next we're adding in half a cup of vegan
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cherry, six cups of low sodium vegetable
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broth, two tablespoons of low sodium soy
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sauce, one teaspoon of vegan warters
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shire sauce, two bay leaves, two thyme
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sprigs, half a teaspoon of salt, and 1/4
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teaspoon of black pepper. So we're going
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to mix that all up, then bring it to a
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boil and reduce the heat to simmer it
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for 45 minutes. Before my simmer is
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done, I am going to preheat my oven to
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400° Fahrenheit. And I'm going to brush
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some baguette slices with olive oil. So,
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for each small bowl of soup that you
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want to eat, you want to prepare one
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baguette slice or two baguette slices
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for a larger bowl. And I'm just going to
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pop these on a baking tray and toast
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them for 3 minutes on each side. After
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you take the baguette slices out, you're
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going to turn the broiler on in your
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oven and let that heat up. All right.
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So, once your soup is ready, you're
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going to get some oven safe bowls, put
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them on a baking tray, and you're just
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going to fill them up with soup. Going
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to put some soup into each bowl, and
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then top the soup with a baguette slice.
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And then top that with your grated vegan
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gray. You want to make sure that your
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oven rack is positioned so that the top
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of your cheese is about 6 to 8 in below
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the broiler. Then you want to put the
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bacon tray with bowls of soup under the
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broiler and watch it very carefully
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because it could melt in less than two
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minutes, three minutes. You want to take
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it out as soon as it gets melty and
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starts turning brown.
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And that's it.
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This soup is just such a great
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combination of this rich broth and the
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sweet onions and then the melty cheese
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on top. If you try it, let me know what
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you think. All right, well that is all
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for this week. If you made it this far,
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thank you so much for watching all the
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way through to the end. And I do want to
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let you know I have a lot of fall and
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