Cheesy French Onion Pull-Apart Bread
Looking for a tasty appetizer to feed a crowd? This Cheesy Pull Apart Bread with French Onion flavors is the way to go. A twist on classic pull apart cheese bread, we add wine-soaked caramelized onions for extra flavor! This bread tastes like classic French Onion Soup, but is an easy appetizer!
Servings 6 servings
Calories 540kcal
Ingredients
- 1 loaf sourdough
Caramelized Onions
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 yellow onions thinly sliced
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ cup cabernet sauvignon
Cheese Sauce
- 2 cups shredded gruyere cheese
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- Freshly ground black pepper to taste
Instructions
Caramelize the onions
- Melt the butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.
- Add the thinly sliced onions, seasoning with the salt. This will help them cook down more quickly.
- Stir the onions occasionally until they have begun to caramelize, about 15-20 minutes.
- When the onions are a deep brown, add the red wine to deglaze the pan. (If you don't want to use wine, use the same amount of beef stock.)
- Cook until all the wine has evaporated out of the onions, then remove from the heat to let cool.
Prepare the bread
- While the onions cook down, slice the sourdough into 1″ squares. Keep in mind that we do not want to cut all the way through the bread.
- Use a serrated knife to slice 1" slices on the diagonal into the bread, careful not to cut all the way through the bottom.
- Spin the bread 90 degrees, and cut slices going this direction, forming the squares or diamonds.
Make the cheese sauce
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place two pieces of aluminum foil on a baking sheet, shaping them into a plus sign. (These will wrap around the bread as it bakes.)
- In the same pan that the onions were cooked in, add the shredded cheeses and milk.
- Stir constantly, allowing the cheese a chance to melt.
- Season with the thyme and black pepper. Remove from the heat.
- Once the cheese sauce has finished cooking, pry open the bread pieces using your fingers or two butter knives and drizzle the cheese in. Top with the onions.
- Complete this process until every nook and cranny of the bread has been filled with cheese and onion.
- Wrap the bread in the prepared foil, and bake for 15-20 minutes.
- Enjoy immediately!
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 540kcal | Carbohydrates: 49g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 73mg | Sodium: 1009mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 8g
