Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken orzo soup. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chicken Orzo Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Orzo Soup is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken orzo soup using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Orzo Soup:
- Make ready 10 skinless chicken thighs
- Get 8 cups water
- Make ready 1 whole peeled onion
- Take 1 onion diced
- Make ready 3 bay leaves
- Make ready 1 bunch celery sliced
- Make ready 2 lb peeled and sliced carrots
- Get 1 (14.4 oz) can diced tomato
- Get 1/2 lb orzo pasta
- Get 1/2 cup parsley
- Take 1 1/2 tsp season salt
- Prepare to taste pepper
- Get to taste hot pepper flakes
- Get Parmesan cheese
Instructions to make Chicken Orzo Soup:
- 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.
- Add in carrots, celery, onion and tomato. Bring back to simmer and cook for 10 minutes. Shred chicken while vegetables are cooking.
- Add in orzo pasta and parsley, cook for 10 minutes or until al dente. Shred chicken while pasta is cooking.
- Add in shredded chicken, season salt, pepper and hot pepper flakes if desired. A little parmesan goes a long way too :)
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