Warm Up with Vegetarian French Onion Mushroom Soup

I’m clearly on a vegetarian kick! One of my favorite things is making dishes that are traditionally meat-centric and turning them into vegetarian-friendly foods. While there is no meat in traditional French onion soup, it does lean on rich beef broth to give it a really delicious savory flavor.

Instead of including the beef broth, I decided to add sliced cremini mushrooms to attempt to add some deep flavors to the broth. It worked! It’s super delicious and tasty and of course, it wouldn’t be French onion soup without a lot of Gruyere cheese and slices of bread on top. It’s the perfect soup for cold nights when it’s blisteringly chilly outside. This soup miraculously still has that deep, savory flavor to it thanks to the caramelized onions, a bit of butter and of course sautéed mushrooms.

Adrianna Adarme is a food blogger and author living in Los Angeles, California. She writes the blog A Cozy Kitchen, where she shares comforting, everyday recipes from her kitchen. She recently authored her first cookbook, PANCAKES: 72 Sweet and Savory Recipes for the Perfect Stack. She's a lover of breakfast, pie (and sometimes even pie for breakfast), corgis and cute things. You can find her on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook.