Preparation time approx 1.5 hours – makes approx 800 ml

Ingredients:

• 5 tablespoons of plain flour
• 50 g butter
• 1 onion, cut into thin strips
• 1 litre of meat stock
• 100 g of Gruyere cheese, grated

Method

• Put flour in a deep pan and stir over medium heat until it is roasted nut brown. Reduce heat, tip flour onto a plate to cool
• Melt butter in the same pan
• Sweat slowly onion for approximately 3 minutes then return flour to pan
• Whisk meat stock into the flour, bring to the boil, reduce heat and simmer for approximately 1 hour
• To serve, pour soup into warmed bowls, top with grated Gruyere cheese or serve cheese separately.

Tip

• Prepare soup without onions, garnish with fried onion rings

Per person: 19 g fat, 9 g protein, 11 g carbohydrate, 254 calories – recipe & photo from The Swiss Cookbook by Betty Bossi

This Basel flour soup is traditionally served at the famous Basel carnival. The soup is brown, it is said, because one day a cook was chatting away and burned the flour while roasting it. Instead of throwing away the precious ingredients, the mishap was ignored and Basel’s brown flour soup was born!