You know that fantastic soup they serve at Greek restaurants?? Well this is it! It’s called Avgolemono, and it’s so easy to make and soooo delicious. Probably my favorite soup ever! Serve a steaming hot bowl with warm pita bread on a cold day. Mmmmm. Recipes comes from cdkitchen.com.
Ingredients:
6 cups low-sodium chicken broth
3/4 cup long-grain white rice
2 cups cooked chicken, diced (a rotisserie chicken works great for this)
2 large eggs, at room temperature
2/3 cup fresh lemon juice (do not use bottled)
Directions:
- Add broth and rice to a large saucepan. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to a simmer, cover, and cook 15 minutes or until rice is cooked.
- Add chicken to pot.
- Remove soup from heat and cover.
- In a separate bowl, whisk lemon juice into eggs until frothy.
- Ladle out about 1 cup hot broth from soup pot and slowly whisk it into the eggs, whisking continually.
- Slowly stir the warmed eggs into the pot of soup.
- Serve immediately.
Two years after your post I happened upon this recipe on pinterest and it was a big hit with the husband! I was a little nervous about adding the eggs in at the end since I’m pregnant so I just heated it up to a very brief boil after for piece of mind. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
So glad you liked it! And thanks for your comment! This soup is a fav at our house
Kristen, I have always wanted to make this, but thought it probably had too much rice for a diabetic.
FYI I juiced an entire bag of lemons with my Jack LaLanne juicer, and it only yielded 3/4 cup of lemon juice. I thought it would be enough for me to make at least double this recipe.
How many servings is that??
I’ve been looking for a recipe for this – and love how simple it is! We can’t have egg yolk here – do you think I could modify it and use egg white only? Any suggestions?
Thanks for writing! I\’m not sure about the egg white…but give it a try and see. The only difference I think is that it may be slightly less \”creamy\” without the yolk. But hopefully the chicken and lemon will be enough to hold up the rich flavor. Lemme know if you try it and how it turns out!
loved this! thanks! i added carrots, celery and onion too just to sneak more veggies into my kids meals.
I have to make this for my husband, he’ll love it
This sounds really interesting…and easy! Going to try it very soon. Thanks!
This is one of my favs. I will for sure whip up a pot soon. YUM!!!
That’s my favorite soup!! I made a bunch and froze it! YUM!
This sounds so good and so easy! It also helps that it only has a few ingredients, most of which I always have on hand. I think I’ll try this one tomorrow.
Lemme know what you think–it\’s seriously my favorite soup!
oh, I just love this soup. Perfect for a cold snowy day.