ThermoMixes are useful!

I whomped together a French Onion Soup, cooked up from basic ingredients in a ThermoMix.

I wound up with give-me-more flavoured soup, & just one item (3 pieces) to wash. That included all cooking, & serving (the top of the ThermoMix is a juggy thing).

The recipe is very simple (adapted from the original):

4 large sweet onions (or just ordinary onions), sliced

2 tablespoons margarine

1 teaspoon sugar

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon dried thyme

½ teaspoon dried mustard

2—3 teaspoons shoyu (soy sauce, tamari, Braggs, etc.)

¼ cup red wine (I used dark grape juice)

6 cups veggie stock (use a good one!)

To make it, cook the marg up in a saucepan, then add the onions & salt, for one hour (the ThermoMix’s timer came in very handy here)

Add everything else except the stock. If you’ve used the wine, give it a few minutes to cook down.

Add the stock, bring it to a boil, & you’re done... well... except for the eating, & the wishing you’d cooked more. (-:

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