The Well Plated Cookbook is now instant pot broccoli soup! A quick and easy Instant Pot French onion soup with beef bone broth made using an electric pressure cooker.
The BEST French onion soup recipe. This Instant Pot French Onion Soup is an easy way to enjoy restaurant-style French onion soup at home in a hurry. It’s a classic French onion soup recipe made quicker and more healthy too! Instant Pot French Onion Soup is a quick and easy way to make French onion soup in an electric pressure cooker. I’ll never forget the first time I ordered French onion soup. It was at an old-timey café and pie shop in my Kansas hometown, the sort of place where groups of retired ladies meet to sip cocktails at noon and giggle about their husbands. My grammy treated my sisters and me for lunch on special occasions, and when I spotted a bowl of what appeared to be thick-cut bread magically floating beneath a golden lid of toasted, gooey cheese, I immediately needed to know what this mysterious, glorious substance was.
Then my grammy informed me that it was classic French onion soup and assured me that I would love it. This is honestly one of the best recipes I have found on the internet. So this Instant Pot French onion soup recipe is my attempt to recreate a little bit of that magic but in a faster, less labor-intensive way. If you’re familiar with authentic French onion soup, you’ll know it is a commitment. A fragrant bouquet of fresh herbs gets infused into simmering, rich beef broth.
It wouldn’t be French onion soup without butter. Slowly caramelized onions are what give French onion soup its depth and body. Ordinarily, caramelizing a large batch of onions takes 45 minutes or more. For me, that’s a feat that might be possible on a Sunday. To make the Instant Pot French onion soup recipe attainable on even a busy weeknight, I caramelized the onions in my Instant Pot. It makes the process completely hands-off.