Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken soup greek style. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
This soup is perfect as an introduction to a full Greek meal, or a hearty bowlful for a meal in itself. I also substituted orzo pasta for the rice. I actually prefer this style chicken soup with the fresh lemon juice over traditional chicken and.
Chicken soup greek style is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chicken soup greek style is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken soup greek style using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken soup greek style:
- Take 2 chicken legs (thighs and shoulder or half a chicken)
- Prepare 1 1/2 ltr water
- Get 1 onion
- Make ready 1 carrot
- Get 3 whole allspice
- Get 30 ml virgin olive oil
- Take sea salt (to taste)
- Prepare 130 gr orzo pasta
- Prepare 2 organic eggs (we need them to be on room temperature)
- Prepare 1 1/2 lemons their juice
Add cooked orzo to soup along with chicken, baby spinach and minced fresh dill. A light and healthy recipe with bold Greek flavors. This Greek Lemon Chicken Soup is a great way to warm your belly on cool autumn evenings! This soup is reminiscent of the classic Avgolemono Greek Lemon Chicken Soup.
Steps to make Chicken soup greek style:
- In a large pot add the chicken the onion and carrot whole. Add the all spice the olive oil and the water and bring to a boil. There will be a froth formed so remove it with a spoon.
- Turn the heat on medium and let the chicken boil until you see it separates from the bone, almost an hour.
- Remove the chicken from the pot and place on a tray. Season generously with salt and cover. The meat will absorb the salt. Remove the carrot, onion and all spice and throw away.
- Bring the broth to a boil, season with salt and add the orzo. Cook for 10-11 minutes. While the broth is boiling keep aside a cup of the broth for later. (We will need it for the avgolemono, we need it to be warm and not boiling hot).
- When the orzo is almost cooked remove the pot from the stove.
- Let's get the avgolemono goining. Separate the egg whites from the yokes. Keep the yokes aside and squeeze the lemons to take the juice.
- Whisk the egg whites until fluffy, add the yolks and mix to combine. Add the lemon juice while whisking. Add the broth you set aside earlier and continue whisking. The avgolemono is ready. Pour it into the pot and stir for a couple of seconds.
- Serve the soup with freshly ground pepper and the chicken. I like to add the chicken into my soup in small pieces. Enjoy!
I'm not about to claim that this is an authentic Greek recipe since there will be someone out there who disputes my claim! But it certainly has some nice Greek-style flavors such as lemon and dill, and it has the classic. Chicken breasts are poached with vegetables, then rice is cooked in the well-flavoured stock. At the last minute, the soup is enriched with eggs and fresh lemon juice in traditional Greek fashion. This Greek lemon chicken soup is comforting, fresh, and nourishing!
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