French onion soup with cheese sticks

Ingredients

• 3 large onions
• flour - 1 tbsp.
• 150 ml dry white wine
• 1 liter chicken or vegetable broth
• 4 slices white bread
• garlic - 3 cloves
• salt
• swiss cheese - 100 g
• 3 art. l. butter
• sol - 0.5 h. l.
• 0.5 h. l. peppers
• baking powder - 0.5 tsp.
• 100 g Swiss cheese
• flour - 150 g
• butter - 75 g
• milk - 0.5 cups

Cooking

Step 1

Peel the onion and cut into thin half rings. Peel the garlic and finely chop. In a heavy-bottomed saucepan in which the soup will be cooked, heat the butter, add the onion and cook over low heat, stirring constantly, for 25 minutes. Add garlic and flour. Cook, stirring constantly, for 3 more minutes.

Step 2

Pour in wine, bring to a boil. Add hot broth, salt and pepper. Reduce heat and simmer covered for 10 minutes.

Step 3

Cut the crust off the bread. In a frying pan, heat 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil and fry the bread until golden brown, 2 minutes each. from each side. Cheese grate on a coarse grater. Add half of the cheese to the soup pot. Stir and immediately remove from heat. Pour soup into serving bowls. In each pot, put a piece of fried bread on top of the soup, sprinkle with the remaining grated cheese and put in the oven, heated to 200 ° C, or in the microwave - for 3 minutes.

Step 4

Preheat the oven to 200 C. Grate the cheese on a fine grater. Heat butter to room temperature. Mix butter with grated cheese in a bowl. Add milk, salt and paprika. Mix. Add flour and baking powder, knead the dough and put it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

Step 5

Roll out the dough on a floured work surface into a thin layer. Trim the uneven edges so that you get a large rectangle. Cut the dough into strips 10 cm long and 1.5 cm wide.

Step 6

Twist the strips into spirals. Put on a baking sheet, greased with oil, put in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Serve hot with soup.