Bubba Don't Eat This Onion Soup With Melted Mozzarella

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 1/4 cup butter
• 4 vidalia onions
• 3 garlic cloves, chopped
• 2 leeks, and light green sections only thinly sliced
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 (284 ml) cans condensed beef broth
• 2 (284 ml) cans water
• 1 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon tabasco sauce
• 2 buns, sliced, i use multi-grain
• 2 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded

Recipe

• 1 in a large saucepan, melt butter.
• 2 chop one onion until fine. i generally use my mini-chopper. cut the remaining onions in half, then slice.
• 3 add garlic, leeks and all the onions and the salt to the melted butter. saute until soft. this should take approximately 15 minutes.
• 4 cover and reduce the heat. simmer for 15 minutes.
• 5 add beef broth, water, pepper and tabasco sauce. bring just to the boil.
• 6 cover, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• 7 at this point, you may continue with the recipe, or cool and store in the fridge. great for single servings!
• 8 to serve:.
• 9 preheat oven or toaster oven (good for single servings) to the broil setting.
• 10 ladle soup into an oven proof bowl. top with a slice of the toasted bun.
• 11 spoon on a few of the onions and top with a 1/4 cup shredded cheese.
• 12 broil until the cheese has melted and is starting to brown.
• 13 enjoy!