How To Make Basil, Chicken and Orzo Soup
This aromatic chicken and orzo soup gives the classic chicken noodle soup a tasty twist! Add in some basil herbs and orzo pasta for a truly comforting meal.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1tspolive oil
- ½sweet yellow onion,diced
- 2stalkscelery,diced
- 2carrots,peeled and diced
- 3clovesgarlic,minced
- 8cupschicken stock,good-quality
- 2cupschicken,cooked and diced into bite-sized chunks
- 2bay leaves
- sea salt and fresh cracked pepper,to taste
- 6fresh basil leaves,chopped, chiffonnade
- 1cuporzo pasta,dried
Instructions
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Heat olive oil in a Dutch oven or large cooking pot over medium-high heat.
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Once the oil is heated, add onion and stir for 1 to 2 minutes. Then add carrots, celery and garlic then stir for 60 seconds.
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Stir in chicken stock, diced chicken, and bay leaves, then season with salt and pepper. Let simmer for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
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Raise heat to medium-high and bring the soup back to a boil. Then add basil and dried orzo pasta and cook per instructions until the pasta is al dente.
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Taste and re-season with additional salt and pepper (or more basil) if needed. Serve warm. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 307.95kcal
- Fat: 12.03g
- Saturated Fat: 3.23g
- Trans Fat: 0.05g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 5.37g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.43g
- Carbohydrates: 29.17g
- Fiber: 1.94g
- Sugar: 7.13g
- Protein: 19.68g
- Cholesterol: 44.60mg
- Sodium: 1005.76mg
- Calcium: 44.16mg
- Potassium: 604.02mg
- Iron: 1.69mg
- Vitamin A: 197.34µg
- Vitamin C: 4.42mg
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