New Avgolemeno Soup – Totally Epic

Avgolemeno is 1 of those soups that I’ve made many times, but rarely from scratch. It’s normally a “there’s goose egg inwards the house” type of thing, made amongst a carton of broth. Even inwards its quick-and-easy form, it’s a delicious, in addition to comforting meal, but when you lot role a fresh, whole chicken, it becomes epic.

By the way, I hateful “epic” equally inwards ancient Greek poetry, non hipster cliché. Okay, I hateful it both ways. Speaking of whole chickens, that’s your large determination here. If you lot desire chicken meat inwards your soup, thus you’ll solely desire to simmer the aeroplane for almost an hour, or simply until cooked through.

This means you lot larn a squeamish broth, in addition to the meat volition nevertheless hold out flavorful when you lot add together it dorsum in. If you lot don’t desire meat inwards the soup, which past times the way, is how my married adult woman Michele much prefers it, thus proceed simmering until the chicken falls apart in addition to all the flavour has been extracted into the broth.

Some recipes telephone band for orzo pasta inwards this, but I similar the Arborio rice. I mean value it gives simply the correct amount of starchiness in addition to body, but whatsoever rice or pocket-size pasta volition move here. The perfect amounts of lemon in addition to egg are equally good upwardly to you, in addition to experimentation is recommended. I actually promise you lot hand this classic Greek soup a endeavor soon. Enjoy!

Makes six Servings Avgolemeno Soup: 

1 whole chicken, almost iii pounds

3 quarts mutual frigidity water

2 tsp common salt at least, addition to a greater extent than to taste

1 onion, chopped

1 carrot, chopped

2 ribs celery, chopped

2 bay leaves

1/4 tsp dried oregano leaves

2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

2 cups finely diced onion

2/3 to 3/4 loving cup Arborio rice, depending on how thick you lot similar it

1/2 loving cup fresh lemon juice

2 large eggs

1/2 tsp freshly terra firma pepper

pinch of cayenne

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