Sunday 27 January 2013

Onion Soup Without Tears - a Nigel Slater dish for January


Farmersgirl Kitchen has launched 'Dish of the Month' which involves choosing one Nigel Slater recipe per month to cook and then writing a blog post about it. Nigel Slater is my favourite food writer, bar none. So when I needed no encouragement to join in with this.

The dish I chose to cook for January is 'Onion Soup Without Tears' from the January chapter of 'The Kitchen Diaries'.

The idea behind this recipe is to roast the halved onions before chopping them up to make the soup, thereby reducing the tears involved in chopping the onions. The recipe also says that the other advantage of this method is that the onions smell lovely while they are roasting.

Well I tried it and it worked beautifully. The roasting onions smelled mouthwateringly gorgeous. Even better, the finished soup tasted absolutely delicious with toasted French bread and Gruyere cheese on top. It was a real treat!

(Sorry the photos don't do it justice - will use a proper camera next time)



10 comments:

  1. Love onion soup, this looks excellent.

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    1. It was really lovely. Thank you for inspiring me to have a go at making it.

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  2. Oh I want to make this! Is it in KD I or II?

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    1. It's in KD 1 - I hope you enjoy making and eating this soup as much as I did

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  3. I can imagine roasting the onions first would give it a fantastic flavour and topping it off with Gruyere toasts is pure genius.

    Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. I was brought up with 100% wholemeal in everything and only started cooking with half and half myself when I started my blog - I'm still not entirely sure why!

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    1. Yes the Gruyere toasts were lovely - they soaked up the soup underneath but remained crunchy on top.

      As for half and half wholemeal and white flour - it's a good combination for introducing the extra flavour of the wholemeal flour without making things too heavy.

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  4. Would never have thought of that in a million years as a way to make onion soup, its lovely and thanks for joining in with us. (pics look great too). x

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    1. It worked really well and I'm now looking forward to choosing a recipe to try out in February x

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  5. this sounds like the perfect winter warmer.. yum yum going to try this xxx

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