French onion soup Instant Pot IP. Press Sauté; melt butter in Instant Pot®. Secure lid and move pressure release valve to Sealing position. This Instant Pot French onion soup is assembled and finished in the oven with toasted French bread slices and a generous amount of Gruyère cheese.
Turn the Instant Pot (or similar electric pressure cooker) to sauté. Add the butter and let melt. Once melted, add the onions, garlic, thyme, and bay leaf and stir to combine. You can have French onion soup Instant Pot IP using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of French onion soup Instant Pot IP
- Prepare 6 tablespoons of unsalted butter.
- Prepare 2 of yellow onions chopped.
- Prepare 2 of red onions chopped.
- It's 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.
- You need 2 cups of white wine.
- It's 4 cups of beef broth.
- You need 4 of thyme sprigs.
- It's 2 of bay leaves.
- It's 1 TSP of kosher salt.
- It's 4 of garlic cloves minced (garlic lovers 8 cloves).
- Prepare 1 of baguette loaf.
- Prepare 4-6 slices of provolone cheese.
- Prepare of Garnishes.
- You need of Kosher Salt.
- You need of Fresh ground pepper.
- It's of Fresh parsley.
Turn on a multi-functional pressure cooker (such as Instant Pot®) and select Saute function. Add onions, butter, paprika, salt, and black pepper. Add wine; close and lock the lid. Once the onions have caramelized, add ¼ cup of dry white wine and continue sauteeing until the wine cooks down.
French onion soup Instant Pot IP instructions
- Melt butter in pressure cooker over medium saute setting..
- Add onions and baking soda until onions soften slightly and start to release liquid. Around 3 minutes..
- Seal pressure cooker and cook at high pressure for 20 minutes. No need to add liquid. The onions will release all the liquid needed. When finished quick release the pressure. Remove lid..
- Drain liquid then on high/more saute setting, continue to stir the onions till all the onions are sticky and brown..
- Add broth, white wine, salt, and garlic stirring and scraping bottom of the pot to remove any bits that may be stuck to bottom of the pot. Add thyme and bay leaves..
- Reseal instant pot and cook at high pressure for 10 minutes. When beeper sounds do a quick release of the pressure. Remove lid..
- Discard the bay leaves and thyme sprigs. Preheat oven to broil. Cut the baguette into 1 to 1 1/2 inch pieces...
- Ladle soup into oven safe bowls leaving room for the baguette on top. Add pieces of baguette (2 or 3) on top of soup. Cover with a slice of provolone cheese..
- Place bowl in oven and cook with oven door cracked until cheese is melted..
- Remove from oven. sprinkle salt, pepper, and parsley over the top..
- Enjoy!!.
SAUTE ONIONS: Add butter, onions and baking soda to instant pot which will now be hot. In the last minute, add minced garlic. Put the Instant Pot on Sauté and melt the butter until it sizzles. Make sure they aren't too firm or too mushy! Pressure Cook Onions: Heat up Instant Pot using Sauté More function.