Recipe: Appetizing Chicken Orzo Soup

Chicken Orzo Soup.

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

Ingredients of Chicken Orzo Soup

1. It's of skinless chicken thighs.
2. You need of water.
3. You need of whole peeled onion.
4. Prepare of onion diced.
5. Prepare of bay leaves.
6. It's of celery sliced.
7. It's of peeled and sliced carrots.
8. Prepare of can diced tomato.
9. Prepare of orzo pasta.
10. Prepare of parsley.
11. You need of season salt.
12. You need of pepper.
13. You need of hot pepper flakes.
14. You need 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 :).