Lower Carb French Onion Soup

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 -3 large sweet onions, cut in half and thinly sliced
• 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans chicken broth
• 2 (14 1/2 ounce) cans beef broth
• 4 tablespoons freshly grated/shredded parmesan cheese or 4 tablespoons romano cheese or 4 tablespoons asiago cheese, divided
• 8 slices thin provolone cheese (round works best)
• 8 slices thin swiss cheese
• 2 tablespoons olive oil or 2 tablespoons canola oil
• 1 dash dry sherry

Recipe

• 1 cut onions in half, then thinly slice.
• 2 in a large sauce pot, heat oil and add onions, medium high heat.
• 3 saute onions for about 20 minutes, until limp and golden brown in color.
• 4 add all four cans of broth and heat to boiling, about 5-8 minutes.
• 5 add a splash of sherry if desired, turn off heat.
• 6 put oven on broil cycle.
• 7 place 4 soup crocks in a baking pan and ladle onion sherry broth mixture evenly among 4 crocks; the pan will prevent spillover in your oven and make it easier to transport the hot crocks.
• 8 you will want this almost to the top of the crock.
• 9 add one tbs of grated cheese to broth mixture in each crock and stir gently.
• 10 place two slices of provolone and two slices swiss atop each crock.
• 11 carefully use baking pan to transport the crocks to your broiler unit, closest to the heat unit.
• 12 broil the crocks in the pan until the cheese is golden brown and bubbly, anywhere from 5-10 minutes.
• 13 serve crocks on separate plates.
• 14 for carbers, you can add a thick slice of toasted bread to the soup, before the sliced cheeses go on, just adjust the amount of broth mixture to each crock.