Recipe: Appetizing Chicken Orzo Soup

Chicken Orzo Soup.

You can have Chicken Orzo Soup using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Orzo Soup

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

Chicken Orzo Soup instructions

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 :).