Light Greek Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup

Ready in : 30 mins

Light Greek Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup requires roughly 30 minutes from start to finish. This dairy free recipe serves 8 and costs $2.4 per serving. One portion of this dish contains around 27g of protein, 4g of fat, and a total of 281 calories. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Autumn. It works well as a main course. 14 people have made this recipe and would make it again. It is a rather inexpensive recipe for fans of Mediterranean food. If you have salt, pepper, ground thyme, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is brought to you by Foodista. All things considered, we decided this recipe deserves a spoonacular score of 69%. This score is good.

Diets

DAIRY FREE

Ingredients

chicken breasts

3

chicken broth

64 oz

carrots

3

celery stalks

3

thyme

3 sprigs

extra virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon

orzo pasta

2 cups

ground thyme

1 Tbs

salt

1 Tbs

pepper

1 Tbs

lemon

1 large

Cooking in Steps

1
In a large soup pot, heat olive oil on medium high.

olive oil

pot
2
Add carrots and celery and cook for 5 minutes on medium.

carrot

celery
3
Add chicken broth.

chicken broth
4
Add ground thyme, salt and pepper.

salt and pepper

ground thyme
5
Add cooked, diced chicken breasts and fresh thyme.Bring to boil.

chicken breast

fresh thyme
6
Add orzo and cook for 7-10 minutes until pasta is cooked.

pasta

orzo
7
Add the lemon zest and juice from 1 large lemon.

lemon zest

juice

lemon
8
Serve with a slice of lemon.

lemon