Chicken Lemon Rice Soup

Ingredients

  • Olive oil
  • 1 Yellow onion diced
  • Shredded Carrot
  • 1 cup Arborio rice
  • 4 cups Chicken stock
  • Juice from 3 Lemons
  • 3 Eggs
  • 2 Chicken breasts
  • 1 bunch of Dill finely chopped
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Steps

  1. Cook and shred your chicken.
  2. Heat a soup pot over medium high heat and add enough oil to cover the bottom. Add onion and carrot and cook until the onion is translucent.
  3. Add rice and chicken stock. Bring to a boil and cook until the rice is cooked through.
  4. While the rice is cooking beat together the eggs and lemon juice.
  5. Once the rice is cooked add the shredded chicken
  6. Temper the egg mixture by slowly pouring a ladle or two of the soup into the eggs before slowly adding the egg mixture into the soup. Make sure to stir constantly while adding the egg mixture to the soup. This will cause the soup to thicken.
  7. Mix in the dill and season with salt and pepper to taste.

Notes!

I recommend starting the process of cooking and shredding your chicken an hour or so in advance. The soup cooks up very quickly and it will take longer for your chicken to cook than it does for the soup to cook.

Technically arborio rice is the preferred type of rice to use in this, but it works fine with any short or medium grain white rice.

This soup holds pretty well, but if you're making a big batch to eat over a period of longer than 2 days I would recommend cooking and storing the rice seperate from the rest of the soup and adding when you eat it. This will impact the texture/thickness of the soup, but if you have rice sitting in all that liquid over a long period the rice will continue to absorb the liquid and break down until its just a big mushy mess with very little unabsorbed liquid.

Adjust the amount of lemons you squeeze depending on how juicy they are and how lemon-y you like your soup. I like mine very lemony so I usually juice quite a lot of lemons. Also don't tell any chefs or foodies, but sometimes I'm lazy and I just use bottled lemon juice and honestly, its fine.