French Onion Casserole
source: My online recipe files
This is delicious. Tastes just like a nice onion soup you can eat with a fork. I love it with holiday meal, especially when doing a prime rib, but, it's good with turkey also.
INGREDIENTS
2-3 Tbs butter or margarine
3 large sweet onions or 4 medium white or yellow onions
2 c. shredded Swiss cheese (8 oz.)
1 can cream of chicken soup, undiluted** (lower fat is fine) OR 2 cups heavy cream and 1 cup low fat chicken broth
2/3 c. milk (2% is fine)
1 tsp. soy sauce
8 or so slices of French bread, sliced a good half inch thick
DIRECTIONS
• You can substitute cream of mushroom or any cream soup you want for cream of chicken to make vegetarian or add another element to the dish.
• Slice onions about 1/4 inch thick.
• Melt butter in a saute pan over medium heat, and add onions.
• Saute onions until clear, a little brown is ok.
• In a shallow 2 qt. casserole pan, layer onions, 2/3 of cheese and pepper to taste.
• In a sauce pan, heat soup, milk, and soy sauce, stirring to blend.
• Pour soup mixture in a casserole and stir gently to mix.
• Top with bread slices.
• Bake at 350 uncovered for 15 minutes.
• After 15 minutes, top of bread should be nice and toasted.
• Push bread slices under the sauce and top with the remaining cheese.
• Place casserole back in oven and finish baking for 10 - 15 more minutes.
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