Chicken soup greek style. A light and healthy recipe with bold Greek flavors. This Greek Lemon Chicken Soup is a great way to warm your belly on cool autumn evenings! This soup is perfect as an introduction to a full Greek meal, or a hearty bowlful for a meal in itself.

The most popular Greek soup has to be the classic Chicken Avgolemono. It is made with an egg-lemon sauce known as avgolemono, homemade chicken stock, flavorful chunks of chicken, and lots of zesty lemon juice. Not when it is so good, like It's Greek to Me Chicken Soup. You can Have Chicken soup greek style using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken soup greek style

Lets Go Prepare 2 of chicken legs (thighs and shoulder or half a chicken).
What You needis 1 1/2 ltr of water.
Lets Go Prepare 1 of onion.
What You needis 1 of carrot.
It's 3 of whole allspice.
Lets Go Prepare 30 ml of virgin olive oil.
What You needis of sea salt (to taste).
Lets Go Prepare 130 gr of orzo pasta.
Lets Go Prepare 2 of organic eggs (we need them to be on room temperature).
It's 1 1/2 of lemons their juice.

Greek Style Chicken Soup: With egg, lemon and orzo. This is the best Greek chicken soup outside of a restaurant. I have only seen and gotten it from one supermarket from across town and they don't always have it as they have limited shelf. Avgolemono soup is a Greek style lemon chicken soup with rice that is thickened with eggs.

Chicken soup greek style instructions

In a large pot add the chicken the onion and carrot whole. Add the all spice the olive oil and the water and bring to a boil. There will be a froth formed so remove it with a spoon..
Turn the heat on medium and let the chicken boil until you see it separates from the bone, almost an hour..
Remove the chicken from the pot and place on a tray. Season generously with salt and cover. The meat will absorb the salt. Remove the carrot, onion and all spice and throw away..
Bring the broth to a boil, season with salt and add the orzo. Cook for 10-11 minutes. While the broth is boiling keep aside a cup of the broth for later. (We will need it for the avgolemono, we need it to be warm and not boiling hot)..
When the orzo is almost cooked remove the pot from the stove..
Let's get the avgolemono goining. Separate the egg whites from the yokes. Keep the yokes aside and squeeze the lemons to take the juice..
Whisk the egg whites until fluffy, add the yolks and mix to combine. Add the lemon juice while whisking. Add the broth you set aside earlier and continue whisking. The avgolemono is ready. Pour it into the pot and stir for a couple of seconds..
Serve the soup with freshly ground pepper and the chicken. I like to add the chicken into my soup in small pieces. Enjoy!.

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