French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup
January 22, 2018
French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup is a delicious cozy soup filled to the brim with healthy veggies and toasty cheesy goodness on top.
You are just going to love our French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup as it great mechanism to use whatever leftovers you have in the refrigerator and it is a healthier version of the traditional French Onion Soup.
Have you had a chance to try our Crazy Easy Italian Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe? We hope you do as we used the beef and vegetables in our French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup. We are all about cooking once and eating twice methodology, how about you?
Traditional French Onion Soup has the big slice of toasted French bread under the cheese that is broiled under the broiler. We skipped the bread completely to keep it gluten-free and did not add any potatoes to keep it a bit lower carb. If you wanted to really make it keto friendly then use lower carb veggies like green beans, spinach, cauliflower, bok choy, etc and skip the red wine for deglazing.
We started out by caramelizing our onions in a pot and then deglazing the pan with a little red wine and then added the shredded beef and all those delicious slow cooker pan drippings from our Crazy Easy Italian Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe and whatever veggies we had in the crisper or freezer. This soup is really a reflection of whatever you have in your crisper, “Clean out the Refrigerator Day Soup”. We could not name the recipe “Clean out the Refrigerator Day Soup”, but indeed that is exactly what it is. Another great recipe for clean out the refrigerator day, is our Pantry Fried Rice. We make that often.
There are not a lot of recipes that come to mind that are great for left over beef but this one is perfect.
Has this ever happened to you? You send someone to the grocery store for you and you specifically ask for fresh vegetables and they bring home canned??? Seriously, what is this?!?! Are we preparing for Y2K again or some other natural disaster? We must be as we have been stocked with enough canned beans, hominy (is that even a vegetable?) peas, potatoes and a smattering of other strange vegetables that must have been on a fire sale. I do not suggest making your soup with canned vegetables, if you are concerned about nutrition as they are filled with sodium and other preservatives. However, frozen vegetables on the other hand are a great solution as if you buy just the plain frozen vegetables they are just the vegetable. Read the label. In the winter, your access to all the fresh vegetables may not be available. However, there is always frozen and this is a great alternative.
This is the time of year that you need to take extra good care of yourself to avoid the colds and flu season and boost your immunity. A delicious warm soup helps warm the soul and nourish your body. Garlic helps to prevent and reduce the severity of common illnesses like the flu and common cold so we added at least 4 cloves just to be sure… Add to your taste preference.
Ok, on to this recipe for our nourishing French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion soup…
French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup
January 22, 2018
French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup is a delicious cozy soup filled to the brim with healthy veggies and toasty cheesy goodness on top.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 30 mins
- Yields: 4 servings
Ingredients
onion – 1 large peeled and sliced
mushrooms – 8 ounces washed and sliced thinly
garlic 4 cloves – peeled and chopped
red wine – ½ cup (we used a pinot nior as that is what we were drinking, use what you have on hand or skip this step if have dietary reasons)
cooked beef – 1 cup diced (we used the pull apart tender beef from our Crazy Easy Italian Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe.) Any left-over cooked beef or even ground hamburger is great in this recipe.
Beef broth or bone broth – 6 cups
Beef juice from our Crazy Easy Italian Slow Cooker Pot Roast Recipe – 1 cup (or increase beef broth/bone broth up to 7 cups
Frozen veggies of choice – 2 cups (we used an assortment of carrots, green beans and peas as this is what we had on hand) Use whatever you have in your refrigerator leftover or frozen veggies.
Directions
1Preheat oven to broil setting
2In a large pot add olive oil and onions. Cook over medium low heat until onions are caramelized (about 10 minutes)
3Add sliced mushrooms and cook until slightly golden – you will have to add another tablespoon of oil to prevent sticking as the mushrooms soak up the oil. Add salt and pepper and thyme to taste and garlic and sauté just until aromatic. Do not burn your garlic. Add the red wine to deglaze the pan. Cook off the alcohol over medium simmer heat for about 10 minutes or until the wine is reduced by half.
4Add the cooked beef, beef broth or beef bone broth and beef juice, vegetables of choice and simmer for about 10 minutes until the flavors have a chance to mingle. Add salt and pepper to taste.
5In oven safe crock bowls, ladle a scoop of your French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup and top with provolone cheese. Place your soup bowl on an aluminum foiled lined baking sheet in case there are any overflows. Broil your French Beef Vegetable Mushroom Onion Soup
6Broil for 1-2 minutes or just until the tops are slightly brown and toasty and melty.
7Enjoy!
