Easy Crock Pot French Onion Soup with Sausage
This easy crock pot French onion soup with sausage is a simple. hearty meal.
Equipment
- Crock pot (slow cooker), at least 6 quarts in size
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground sausage
- 6 onions, thinly sliced
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1 teaspon sugar (1/4 teaspoon if you are using sweet onions)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 6 cups beef broth
- ½ cup apple juice
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 6 slices French bread (optional)
- 1½ cups shredded Gruyere cheese, optional (if you can’t find Gruyere, use Swiss cheese)
Instructions
- In a large skillet, brown the sausage. When the sausage is finished cooking, set it aside on a paper towel on a plate.
- Slice onions into rings. Using the same skillet the sausage was browned in, cook the onion with butter, sugar, salt and pepper.
- The onions will take about 25 minutes to caramelize. Scrape the onions from the skillet into a crock pot.
- Add broth, apple juice, thyme, bay leaf, salt and pepper. Cook 6 hours on low.
- When you are ready to serve the soup, ladle it into ovenproof bowls. Set the oven on broil. Place bread (optional) on top, sprinkle with cheese, broil for a couple of minutes until cheese is browned.
Notes
The calorie count is for the soup only (sausage included). It does not include the optional bread and cheese.