Keto French Onion Soup – Keto French Food
Throughout history, onion soups were considered for the poor, as onions grew easily and became a staple. The Keto French Onion Soup version of the French onion soup originates from Paris, France, and is usually served topped with a slice of crusty bread and melted cheese.
Low carb French onion soup makes such an easy keto recipe, as the majority of the soup contains many fantastic nutrients from bone broth. Bone broth on the ketogenic diet is very important as salt is required in far greater quantities when eliminating carbohydrates from your diet.
Bone broth contains more than ample amounts of your daily sodium intake. I would not recommend using 4 cups of bone broth for this recipe. Diluting it down will result in a much more pleasant experience.
This easy French onion soup recipe can be made as a crock pot recipe, or you can also make it easily using a large saucepan. If you were to make this in a crock pot, adust the slow cooker time suitable for soups. This is usually specified in your crock pot manual, depending on what device you use regularly. Low carb crock pot meals are a fantastic way to pre prepare a few low carb dinner options at a time.
Many Australians would know French onion soup from a dry onion soup mix packet. These soups usually contain loads of unsuitable ingredients like sugars and preservatives. Best avoid these types of soups on the ketogenic diet. Stick with the real Keto French Onion Soup. In my opinion, this is the best French onion soup recipe I’ve ever tasted.
This homemade Keto French Onion Soup mix recipe is can easily be made vegetarian simply by replacing the beef stock with a suitable vegetarian stock of your choice. If you wanted to also make an easy vegan French onion soup, you would also replace the butter with coconut oil.
Keto French Onion Soup - Keto French Food
Ingredients
- 5 Tbsp Butter
- 500 g Brown Onion Medium
- 2 tsp Natvia (Or Erythritol) 4 drops stevia, or erythritol
- 4 Tbsp olive oil
- 3 cup Beef Stock
Instructions
- In a medium large pot, put the butter and olive oil over medium low heat. Add onions and 1tsp Salt. (onions chopped)
- Cook uncovered, stirring often for 20 mins or until onions are golden brown. Stir in the stevia and cook for another 5 mins.
- Add the stock to the saucepan and cook. Reduce to a low heat and simmer for 25 mins.
- Ladle into soup bowls and serve!
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nick spicer says
how much water do i use ?
FatForWeightLoss says
The beef stock should be fine 🙂
Deborah Smith says
Seriously the best French Onion Soup EVER. I make this at least once a month even in the summer. The cheese on top is a must even if it settles into the soup without the bread to hold it up.
Absolutely delish every. single. time.
FatForWeightLoss says
thanks so much Deborah 🙂
Amanda Fahey says
Hi Aaron! I’ve been wondering what to do with my two pound bag of onions ( I’m in the US) But I absolutely love French onion soup ..the old me wants a crouton or French bread with Gruyere…I’ll settle with Gruyere! Happy to be doing this low carb! Cheers!
FatForWeightLoss says
That’s great Amanda! good use of onions 🙂
Teri says
I’m making this tomorrow, and I think I will toast some crushed up pork rinds on top for crunch?
Kim krey says
This was the best soup I’ve ever made!
FatForWeightLoss says
Thanks so much! So glad you like it 🙂
Kira says
I’ve been keto since May 2018 and always looking for new simple recipes. Made this today. Soooo good. I never use sweet onions for anything but decided to take your advice and use them instead of red onions….. makes a huge difference. So flavorful. Thanks for getting me to make this from scratch. Like all recipes, I’ll modify it more to my liking which is only decreasing some of the oil and butter (slightly) since I’m not using bread. (Had a thick layer of oil floating on the top but still taste great:-))
Jennifer Frazen says
I used to make this non-keto all the time, starting keto next week due to budget restrictions this past week and want to do 1/2 bone broth and 1/2 beef broth…and melt the cheese on top under the broiler…absolutely love this. It is comfort food in a mug..
Linda says
Hi Aaron! Looking forward to making this for dinner tomorrow night! I do have one question though. Obviously we’re not using the traditional French bread with melted cheese here, but what if we just wanted the melted cheese as a topping for the soup? What s the type of cheese traditionally used in onion souo? Brie? Thank you!
FatForWeightLoss says
Aged Gruyère is key to getting the traditional bubbling crust of cheese is traditional, wiss cheese works really great as well 🙂
Linda McDonald says
Great thanks! Soup turned out delish! Gonna use leftovers as a base for a ground beef, cauliflower and kale soup, will just add a couple more cups of beef broth too! Incredible rich onion taste! Can’t understand why I never made this before now!
Hayley says
Would it make a massive difference if I used red onions instead? That’s what I have in my fridge ?
FatForWeightLoss says
I would definitely stick to white onions. I’m not sure that would work. You could try it? But I don’t want you to waste all your awesome salad onions 😉
michelle says
I love all savoury foods with onions, and am going to give this recipe a try. However, I just want to know why is there sweetener added to this recipe? Is there a difference in taste if it’s left out?
Lori says
Probably because the red wine is being omitted. Real French Onion soup uses burgundy wine
Linda McDonald says
If you’re using Vidalia onions, they’re already sweet, but if you’re just using basic brown onions you will want the sweetener, it helps bring out the rich flavor of the onions!