Homemade French Onion Soup in Slow Cooker Crock Pot

Name: Homemade French Onion Soup in Slow Cooker Crock Pot
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 720 min
Total time: 730 min
Ingredients: 3 lbs yellow onions (peeled and sliced into quarter moons); 4 Tbsp unsalted butter (melted); 2 Tbsp olive oil (extra virgin); 2 tsp kosher salt; 12 cups beef broth (or chicken or vegetable if you like); 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar; Black pepper (to taste); 2-3 slices of toasted baguette per bowl (sliced, herbed, toasted); ⅓ cup Gruyère cheese per bowl (grated); Chopped green onions and herbs (optional)

When it comes to a Homemade French Onion Soup recipe, you can make it easily with your slow cooker. There are a few things you can take on board before you make this soup.

First, pick the right onions and decide on the broth. Second, choose the croutons or make your own garlic bread toasts for the soup to evoke all your taste buds.

Choosing the Onions for Your Slow Cooker Onion Soup Recipe

Onions are some of the best ingredients to use to add aroma and textures. This recipe calls for yellow onions with robust flavor and minute bitterness. By the way, this mesmerizing ensemble of tastes is backed up with sweetness that nicely adds on top of the initial flavors.

That is why when you make this simple French onion soup, make sure you’ve got the right onions to begin with.

This easy French onion soup recipe uses caramelized onions. That is why you are in need of a slow cooker Crock Pot. You can caramelize the onions over night or during the time you’re out for work.

Cook the onions with butter in the slow cooker until they are golden brown and sticky. The aroma is incredible!

When you choose a broth for your homemade French onion soup, you can use beef or chicken broth, and even vegetable broth. The French use beef broth for their authentic soup recipe. But any broth will do. Beef and chicken broths will add more flavor to the recipe.

Also make sure you use Gruyère cheese when you top it over the toasted bread slices. That’s the cheese used in the real French onion soup in France.

Onions Health Benefits

How much do you know about the health benefits of a regular onion? Boasting of being a super strong antioxidant and antimicrobial food, onions are included into the list of the top foods that fight inflammation.

Check out a video Graphically Illustrating the Effects of Inflammation on our body.

Chromium in onions help to regulate blood sugar. And the sulfar in onions triggers the release of insulin which, in its turn, lowers blood sugar. This is a great mechanism that comes from a simple onion!

Few people are aware of the fact that onions are rich in soluble fiber (oligofructose). Fiber benefits are many: from keeping us regular to blood sugar regulation to providing the foods to good gut bacteria. Thus onions contribute to a good digestion.

Add the quercetin to the benefits of eating onions. Quercetin is a powerful anti-cancer agent that may inhibit growth of cancer cells in breasts, stomach, colon, prostate, ovarian, endometrial, and lung tumors.

“One 2005 study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that oligofructose [soluble fiber] may help prevent and treat types of diarrhea. The phytochemicals in onions that scavenge free radicals may also reduce your risk of developing gastric ulcers, according to the National Onion Association.“

The Onion Benefits for Women in Menopause

One of the studies published in the Menopause journal indicated that a daily consuption of onions improved bone density in women going through menopause or who have finished menopause.

Women who ate onions frequently had a 20 percent lower risk of hip fracture than those who never ate onions.

More power to the onions in our daily diet!

Should I Add Bread to My Onion Soup?

If you want to stick to the nature of the Classic French Onion Soup recipe, then think about garlic bread with herbs and aromatic spices. I make my own oven-toasted bread slices for this Crockpot recipe.

Get a french bread in the store, slice it up, sprinkle virgin olive oil over the top and sprinkle with your favorite herbs, garlic, and spice mixes. I use organic no-salt seasoning that has about twenty of different herbs in it. You can use this one as well.

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I use a baking pan lined up with parchment paper to make my own French croutons for the onion soup. Bake these homemade croutons at 200F for about 30 minutes. I turn off the oven and let the slices sit in the oven until I use them. But you can place them into a container with the lid for storage.

Bread choices in classic french onion soup recipe

Before Serving, Bake Bowls with Soup In the Oven with Grated Gruyère Cheese

When the onion soup base is ready in your slow cooker, then you’re almost done with cooking. But to add that delicious crust of toasted bread slices with melty Gruyère cheese, you need to place a bowl of cooked soup into the oven for thirty minutes.

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I love to enjoy this French Onion soup right out of the oven while it’s still warm. The aroma is one of my favorites that reminds me of good times and that a cooler weather is in the offing, too.

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This soup is one of my family most-loved recipes. We like to add green onions and fresh herbs to the plated soup as a final touch.

Homemade French Onion Soup with toasted bread and Gruyère cheese

Supplies for A French Onion Soup

There’s nothing complicated in what kitchen supplies you need to use to make this delicious soup. I give this lineup for any easy accounting. And if you need a baking pan or a roll of parchment paper, Amazon Prime will deliver it to you in no time! Right now, they have the next day delivery available for Prime members.

Slow Cooker Crock Pot, buy HERE
Baking or Cookie Sheet buy HERE
Parchment paper, make your choice HERE
No-Salt Seasoning, this Jar
Ceramic French Onion Soup Bowls, get them HERE

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