Ingredients
For the Chicken:
- 1 package of fresh chicken tenders
- 1 1/2 cup of water
- Salt and pepper
The Soup:
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 large onion, dices
- 6 large carrots, peeled and diced
- 1 tablespoon of prepared chopped garlic
- 10 cups or 2 and 1/2 box of vegetable stock
- 2 cans of chickpeas
- 1 cup orzo
- 4 eggs
- the juice of one fresh lemon
- 3 cups of fresh spinach (about one box of pre-washed spinach)
- 3 tablespoons of chopped dill
Instructions
Cook the Chicken:
- Put one cup of water at the bottom of the inner pot of the Instant Pot
- Place the cooking rack in the bottom.
- Salt and pepper the chicken to taste
- Place the chicken on top of the cooking rack
- Close the lid, set to high pressure for 5 minutes. Allow for a 5 minute natural release.
- Remove from the instant pot and shred with two forks
While the chicken is cooking, prepare all ingredients before you start the soup:
- With a Vandalia chopper or food chopper, chop the onions, carrots to uniform bite size pieces.
- Juice the lemon
- Finely chop the dill
- Rinse and drain the chickpeas
- Wash the spinach
Start the soup in a large soup pot or large dutch oven:
- Heat the dutch oven over medium to high heat.
- Add the olive oil and saute the onions for 5 minutes.
- Add the carrots and saute for 5 minutes.
- Add the garlic.
- Next add the vegetable stock and chickpeas and bring to a soft boil.
- Reduce the heat to a simmer.
- Add the orzo and stir, cook on simmer for the time noted on your box of orzo. For my orzo this was 10 minutes. When done remove from heat.
- While the soup is simmering mix together the eggs and the lemon juice.
- Add a drizzle a spoonful of hot soup into the egg mixture a very small amount at a time whisking continually until you have added about 1/2 cup of soup liquid to the egg. (Do this very slowly as you do not want the egg to cook but warm up, or what is called temper)
- Next whisk the soup mixture while adding the egg mixture to the soup pot. Again do this very slowly. (This makes the soup look like a cream soup without adding any cream)
- When the egg and lemon are added to the soup return back onto the heat and bring to a low simmer.
- Add the shredded chicken to the soup.
- Add the dill and the spinach until the spinach is wilted.
- Salt and pepper to taste.
Notes
- You can make this dish vegetarian by not adding the chicken
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Category: Soup
- Method: Stovetop