Creamy onion soup with cheese en croute
Ingredient
Onion – 100 gms
Cheddar – 15 gms
vegetable stock — 11/2 cup
Bread slice — 1(1 slice of garlic/French bread )
Yellow butter – 1tbsp
English mustard — 1tsp
Cream – 2 tbsp
Roux (for thickening)
Butter — 1 tbsp
Flour — 1 tbsp
Method
Cut onion into thin slices. Fry till golden colour is obtained and remove extra oil with the help of butter paper. Take a pan, add vegetable stock and put on the fire. Add golden fried onion to vegetable stock and let it boil for 5 minutes. Add mustard and cream to vegetable stock. Make brown roux with butter and flour in separate pan. Add roux to the stock to get desired thickness. Finish the soup with butter.
For serving
Take slices of garlic bread topped and gratinated with cheese and onion. Pour soup in a bowl and top it with cheese en croute.
Chef Ashish Singh is in-flight chef, Terminus1 — a multi-cuisine restaurant — in Ambience Mall. Chef Ashish Singh is well-travelled and understands the intricacies of the global kitchen. He has not only strengthened his roots in India but abroad as well. Singh has garnered experience working at places like Ilaichi Ktchen and Bar, Hertfordshire in United Kingdom as sous chef from December 2009 to July 2010. He has involved himself actively in various aspects of kitchen, menu planning, inventories and many more.
