Chicken Orzo Soup
Chicken Orzo Soup

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken orzo soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Orzo Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Chicken Orzo Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Inspired by Panera Bread's version, this soup delivers on flavor. Tender chicken in a lemony broth with orzo pasta, carrots, onions, celery, and baby spinach. This has quickly become one of my family's very favorite soup recipes. Orzo Chicken Soup For a different twist on noodle soup, Betty Rench adds orzo, small rice-like grains of pasta. "It cooks up nicely with tender chunks of chicken," she writes from Eaton, Indiana.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken orzo soup using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Orzo Soup:
  1. Take 10 skinless chicken thighs
  2. Prepare 8 cups water
  3. Make ready 1 whole peeled onion
  4. Prepare 1 onion diced
  5. Take 3 bay leaves
  6. Get 1 bunch celery sliced
  7. Make ready 2 lb peeled and sliced carrots
  8. Prepare 1 (14.4 oz) can diced tomato
  9. Take 1/2 lb orzo pasta
  10. Take 1/2 cup parsley
  11. Take 1 1/2 tsp season salt
  12. Take to taste pepper
  13. Prepare to taste hot pepper flakes
  14. Get Parmesan cheese

This is comfort food at its best. The traditional noodles are swapped out and orzo is used instead, which is a pasta shaped like a large grain of rice. And my favorite part about this soup is the freshly squeezed lemon juice. It's pure comfort in a bowl with a hint of refreshing, lemony goodness.

Steps to make Chicken Orzo Soup:
  1. In a large stockpot, add in chicken thighs, bay leaves, whole onion, and water. (Water should be about 1 inch above the chicken thighs. We think its about 8 cups.) Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 25 minutes. Pull out the chicken and whole onion and set aside chicken and discard onion.
  2. Add in carrots, celery, onion and tomato. Bring back to simmer and cook for 10 minutes. Shred chicken while vegetables are cooking.
  3. Add in orzo pasta and parsley, cook for 10 minutes or until al dente. Shred chicken while pasta is cooking.
  4. Add in shredded chicken, season salt, pepper and hot pepper flakes if desired. A little parmesan goes a long way too :)

And my favorite part about this soup is the freshly squeezed lemon juice. It's pure comfort in a bowl with a hint of refreshing, lemony goodness. Heat canola oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper, to taste. Heat oil in a large heavy pot over medium heat.

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