French Onion Soup from bron

[Thermomixer]

Spanish Book recipe is as follows   
Serves 6
Ingredients
130g cheese (to melt on top)
1000g onions
50g olive oil
1 litre chicken stock
salt and white pepper
500g water
6 pieces of toast

- Place in dry jug, the cheese first, and blitz for 10 seconds, Speed 4. Keep aside.
- Place onions in THX and chop 5 seconds, Speed 4. Use spatula to help. Keep aside.
- Place oil in jug and program 5 mins, Temp Varoma, Speed 1.
- Add onion and cook 20 mins, Temp Varoma, reverse, soft speed.
- Then add stock, salt, program further 20 mins, 100º, reverse, soft speed.
- Add pepper, water, check for salt, program 2 mins 100º, reverse, soft speed.
Pour into individual heatproof bowls , and place on each one, toast and cheese and hot grill 1 minute.
Serve immediately.

[tarasis]

Quick Q: is the onions supposed to be quartered, halved or whole when going into the TMX?

Also curious about the toast on top, I think the few onion soups I've had have just had croutons in them.

[judydawn]

Rob, I would halve the onions, you want them chopped so they look like slices of onion, not mush so keep an eye on them through the hole if possible (I use a torch) and stop chopping when they look right. I never put whole onions in the TMX and I've always known French Onion Soup to have the cheese toasts on top.