A bowl of Lemon Chicken Orzo soup is the perfect complement to a cold or rainy day. Leftover turkey can also be used to make the soup. Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In January, Linda Walker took home the "Golden Ladle" at her church's annual "Soup and Pie Day.
" For the event, church members bring homemade soups and pies, and event organizers appoint two teams of judges to taste all entries and decide upon a winner for each category. In a field of more than 18 soups, Walker's Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup was the winner — and I understand why. She said that a few weeks before the Soup and Pie event, she had a rotisserie chicken from Costco.
She was trying to figure out what she could make with the ingredients she had on hand, including the chicken bones. She found a recipe on Salt & Lavender's website and decided to give it a try, but opted to put her own spin on the recipe. Chopped vegetables for Linda Walker's Lemon Chicken Orzo soup I've made it both ways and can tell you that Walker's edits are a game changer.
(However, after I made it with her edited recipe, she told me about her "secret ingredient." I can't wait to make it a third time with the addition that I believe will add serious umami to the already flavorful soup.) Even after the first time she made it, Walker says she really liked the soup.
"Lemons, chicken broth, orzo — it was really good," she said. "It's one of those good winter, warms-your-insides kinds of things." After discu.