How to Make Favorite Chicken Orzo Soup

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken orzo soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken Orzo Soup is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chicken Orzo Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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 begin with this recipe, we must 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:

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

It's pure comfort in a bowl with a hint of refreshing, lemony goodness. However, it has a bolder herbaceous flavor from the generous addition of garlic, dried Italian Herb Seasoning, and fresh basil leaves. This creamy chicken and orzo soup will warm your soul! With so many of you under snow right now, this is the perfect hug in a bowl.

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 :)

This creamy chicken and orzo soup will warm your soul! With so many of you under snow right now, this is the perfect hug in a bowl. The most comforting chicken orzo soup bowl that will keep you warm, that will bring happiness to a friend or family and all while tasting delicious! Oh and it's extra satisfying too. Bring the chicken broth to a boil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat.

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