An ideal tackle the favored Panera Lemon Hen Orzo soup! A wholesome and contemporary soup bursting with vivid lemony flavors and tender orzo pasta!
An ideal tackle the favored Panera Lemon Hen Orzo soup!
I can have soup all the time and without end. Love the stuff. From an ailing coronary heart, a cruddy day on the workplace or when Chiberia refuses to let the nice and cozy climate are available…
It’s solely January and already I’m aching for the spring climate to roll on in. I discover myself questioning within the midst of all this miserable chilly if the precise spring will ever make its look. My vivid, cheery garments are aching to be proven off and to exchange the cumbersome sweaters and Northface jackets I’ve been sporting to maintain my heat within the winter. However that is Chicago…so I’m betting spring could finally roll round in Might…probably June.
And so forth one such frigid day final week, I made a decision to cease by and get the munchkin and me some soup for a fast lunch. Panera is all the time my go-to for a fast lunch. Their soup varieties are all the time an ideal decide me up for the munchkin and me…who simply so occurs to like soup as a lot as I do.
I do love their broccoli cheddar soup, however the fats content material is simply too excessive for this woman, who’s attempting to get Robo sizzling for her the summer season…
SIDE NOTE: This was a time period coined by a co-worker at work…I assume it means UBER sizzling…Unsure when robots turned tremendous sizzling…besides in Austin Powers…Elizabeth Hurley was a sizzling robotic…
SIDE NOTE 2: I created the Broccoli Cheddar Soup and it’s superior…for these days if you find yourself not getting Robo sizzling.
ANNNNNNNYWAY… I often get the French onion soup for myself and the hen noodle for munchkin. However this time, I noticed a pleasant and wholesome lemon orzo soup and I knew I have to immediately have it!
Each the munchkin and I devoured up all our soup and he or she ended up chewing on the bread from my bread bowl after I was accomplished.
After virtually licking our plates clear, I got down to replicate my fave restaurant discover at residence…one among my favourite feats. And I’ve to say, it’s a fairly spot on duplicate. The flavour is tremendous vivid and it virtually has a velvety end as a result of a number of the starch that escapes the orzo thickens up the soup completely. It got here collectively tremendous shortly as properly as a result of I used some leftover rotisserie hen breast within the fridge.
We begin merely sufficient with a big pot and 1 tbsp of butter in it over medium warmth.
And cube up an onion. By the way in which, this nifty little dough cutter can be used as a chop and scoop in my home 🙂
And add all of the veggies to the pot with 3 cloves of garlic minced on a microplaner. You need them to sweat: Medium warmth, lined with lid, no caremalization. Let that occur for about quarter-hour till aromatic.
Add 8 cups or 2 quarts of hen BROTH. Discover I say broth not inventory. Why? As a result of the broth is a a lot lighter and extra delicate taste. I attempted this with inventory and I used to be not as proud of the deep taste. It could be higher with selfmade broth but when your solely choice is retailer purchased stick with the broth.
Go forward and add the juice and zest of 1.5 lemons. I like mine tremendous lemony so I added within the juice and zest of two.
Let the soup come as much as a simmer. Within the meantime, measure out 1/4 a cup of orzo and chop up a handful of Italian parsley.
As soon as the soup has reached a simmer, add the orzo and your shredded hen to the soup. In case you are utilizing uncooked hen, you may simply roast off the hen for 20 minutes on 450-degrees within the oven with the pores and skin on and bone in sprinkled with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Then take away the pores and skin and shred together with your fingers or two forks. You may also minimize into cubes. You may also simply add uncooked hen breast to the soup once you pour in broth and shred or cube earlier than you add within the spinach. No matter floats your soup boat 🙂
After which add my magic ingredient. Higher Than Bouillion. I discuss it a complete load right here. I put in 2 tablespoons. Simply no matter you do bear in mind, it reaches its final taste when it boils. So add, stir, enable to boil and style. In any other case you may find yourself with a pot of salt.
