My vegan friends often make French Onion soup by slowly sauteeing and caramelizing several pounds of onions, reducing them down, then using wine and broth to deglaze them to a thick, wonderfully richly-flavored soup.

This recipe cooks the onions very quickly, and seems to get most of its flavor from vinegar, soy sauce, and rum. Might be quicker, but sometimes time makes things worthwhile :)

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GOBO was going to say the same thing, looks a bit cheap and nasty to me, caramelizing a tonne of onions and then deglazing with a wine or stock is a lot more appealing than faking a caramel with soy brown sugar and rum. the 20-30 min it takes to get a rich deep brown in the onion is worth it

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This recipe really doesn't seem like it would be that great to me. Sometimes vegetarians use soy sauce in their vegetable stock with a few other ingredients to try and make a "vegetarian beef stock". It doesn't taste exactly the same but it works with some recipes.

Although I agree with caramelizing and deglazing the onions, not doing this is just taking away a major taste factor and even appearance from French onion soup.

http://www.savory-soup-recipes.com/vegetarian-soup.html

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Kenneth, thanks...
I have a question, why? vegos? and vegans? and miscos? :) why try to substitute a meat flavor? You don't eat meat, or do I have that wrong? no?... ok good we're on the same page... you want to get a fake taste of something that you think is morally wrong to eat? Go to a field find a cow and lick it! (RAPIST) (well you are! did you ask the cow? I mean you molested it for its milk! Those Aussies thought they had it bad!!!!)..... I don't care if you eat meat or don't, I don't care if you eat dairy or don't, I don't care if you eat eggs or don't, I care if you try to fake it, honestly eat it or dont, don't try and pretend we have enough politicians to keep the world fake xx :)

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Stephen, seriously, what are you talking about? Raping a cow?

I'm talking about a soup that's filled with the deep, rich flavor of caramelized onions. Not a "meat substitute". A soup that celebrates onions.

This isn't a political issue at all. Stop trying to make it one, okay?

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Stephan, all I'm saying is that some recipes call for certain types of stocks and if it happens to be a beef stock some people try to make the recipe as close as the original as possible and if that means making a stock that tastes something like a meat stock to make it as close tasting as possible to the original recipe than so be it, whats the big deal?

Not to mention most vegetarians choose not to eat meat for what reason? It's not the taste. It's the cruel way that they slaughter them and the fact that they don't believe in killing animals or torturing them for their benefit. (if it's a benefit).

Bye the way what exactly am I trying to fake in my post? That I'm a vegetarian? I never stated that I was...

http://www.savory-soup-recipes.com/vegetarian-soup.html

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