Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Homemade Chicken Orzo Soup

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken orzo soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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. Prepare 10 skinless chicken thighs
2. Take 8 cups water
3. Prepare 1 whole peeled onion
4. Take 1 onion diced
5. Take 3 bay leaves
6. Get 1 bunch celery sliced
7. Make ready 2 lb peeled and sliced carrots
8. Make ready 1 (14.4 oz) can diced tomato
9. Take 1/2 lb orzo pasta
10. Get 1/2 cup parsley
11. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp season salt
12. Get to taste pepper
13. Make ready to taste hot pepper flakes
14. Get 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.

Instructions 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 :)

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