French · Soup
Onion Bread Soup with Sausage
A gratinée-style soup of slowly browned onions, white wine and rich broth, with crumbled sweet sausage, torn stale bread soaked in the bowl and a bubbling cap of sharp cheddar, finished with fresh horseradish.

- YieldServes 6, in six 500 ml ovenproof bowls
- Hands-on1 h 15 min
- Total2 h 2 min
- Difficulty
Ingredients
- 1 tbspextra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tbspunsalted butter
- 2.3 kgonions, 5 lb, a mix of yellow and red if possible, cut into 3 mm slices
- 450 gsweet Italian sausage, 1 lb, bulk or casings removedoptional
- 1 tbspkosher salt, plus more to taste
- to tastefreshly ground black pepper, generous
- 3 sprigsthyme, bushy
- 1 leafbay leaf
- 240 mldry, unoaked white wine, 1 cup
- 1.9 Lrich meat or poultry broth, 8 cups; homemade if possible, or half low-sodium chicken and half beef
- 3 slicesstale country bread, 2.5 cm thick, crusts on, each slice torn into 5 or 6 pieces
- 200 gextra-sharp cheddar cheese, 2 cups, shredded
- to tastefresh horseradish root, for grating over the top
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