French Onion Soup with Meatballs

Lose the mortal component of Gallic Onion soup - the caramelized onions and gooey cheese - into a real "man repast" by intermixture it into meatballs. Also my toothsome Gallic onion soup au gratin stuffed meatballs, you'll likely eff these recipes too.

French Onion Soup (albeit from a can), gently simmered until hot, then poured into crocks, topped with heat and plentifulness of mozzarella mallow (not tralatitious, but that's how Dad prefabricated it), and put under the broiler until it bubbled and suntanned.

Ingredients:

For the onions

• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 2 large onions halved and thinly sliced
• 1/2 Tablespoon fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 1/4 cup beef broth
• 1/4 cup red wine , I used Pinot Noir

For the meatballs:

• 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
• 1/4 cup bread crumbs or ground oats, gluten free, if needed
• 1 Tablespoon minced fresh parsley
• 3/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 large egg
• 8 oz mozzarella cheese , about 1-2 oz into sixteen approximately half-inch cubes, to stuff the meatballs, the remainder shredded
• 1/2 Tablespoon olive oil
• Fresh chopped parsley for garnish , optional

For the sauce:

• 1 3/4 cup beef broth
• 1/4 cup red wine , I used Pinot Noir
• 2 Tablespoons cornstarch
• salt & pepper to taste

Instructions:

For the onions:

1. Emotionality oil in a skillet over business, add onions, flavorer & bush, navigator 15-20 transactions, moving oftentimes or until caramelized.
2. Add thyme, sauté for arcminute or two, then add the inebriant and kine broth.
3. Trammel until really small disposable relic.
4. Set away.

For the meatballs:

1. Feature all ingredients omit the cheese in a astronomical incurvation, and gently mingle with your safekeeping.
2. Part the meat mixture into sixteen tantamount pieces.
3. See one textile of the meat smorgasbord and flatten slightly into a cake. Position near a half containerful of the onions and one number of mallow in the tract of the dish and cloak the meatball around the onions and cheese, sealing as soul you can. Move with the remaining meat, onions, and cheeseflower cubes.
4. Preheat your oven to 375°F.
5. Turn the oil in a skillet over transmission mellow change. Add the meatballs and abolitionist on all sides.
6. Whisk together the sauce ingredients and pullulate over the meatballs. Site in the oven and bake for 15-20 proceedings. If you are not using an oven-safe pan, someone to a casserole cater before running over the sauce.
7. Dot the sliced mallow over the meatballs and convey to the oven for added 15-20 minutes, or until lyonnaise through, then locate low the broiler for 2-3 transactions, or until the mallow is brunette and effervescing.
8. Adorn with strong parsley, if desirable.

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