Avgolemono (Greek Lemon-Chicken Soup)
Not really a soup given how little liquid I left in it!
lunchsoup
Time—
Yield2 portions
Energy423 kcal
Components1
Ingredients
- 5mloil, olive, regular
- 130gcarrotrough chop
- 1ribcelery≈ 80 g celeryfine chop
- 5perscallion≈ 56.2 g scallionfine chop
- 2clovegarlicfine dice
- 500stock, chicken, low salt (ml (prepared/500ml))≈ 1 cube stock, chicken, low salt
- 1perherb, bay leaf
- 80grice, white
- 0.125tspsalt
- 0.25tspmonosodium glutamate
- 0.5tspspice, pepper
- 200gPoached Chickenshredded
- egg drop
- 40glemon juice
- 1largeegg
- 1largeegg yolk
- 20gherb, parsley, freshminced
- 10gherb, dill, fresh
Instructions
Process
- Prep:
- Finely chop the celery
- Rough chop the carrot
- Finely chop the scallions
- Finely chop the garlic
- Cook the chicken then shred
- Heat the oil on medium high
- Add the carrots, celery, scallions, saute 5-7 minutes - don’t brown
- Add the garlic, saute 30 seconds
- Add the stock and bay leaves, bring to a simmer
- Add the rice, salt, msg, pepper; simmer for 12-15 minutes until rice is done
- Add the chicken
- Prep the egg:
- Mix the egg and lemon juice together
- Ladle in 2-3 spoons of hot broth while whisking constantly
- Remove from heat
- Slowly pour in the egg mixture, stir until it’s thickened (be very careful if putting it back on heat because it’ll scramble)
- Stir in the parsley
Nutrition details
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| Nutrition | Per portion | Batch total |
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 423 | 846 |
| Protein | 31.7 | 63.5 |
| Carbohydrates | 41.7 | 83.5 |
| Total Sugars | 7.1 | 14.3 |
| Free Sugars | 0.8 | 1.6 |
| Fat | 13.2 | 26.3 |
| Saturated Fat | 3.4 | 6.8 |
| Fibre | 3.6 | 7.3 |
| Alcohol | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Salt | 1.2 | 2.4 |
| Iron | 4.38 | 8.75 |
| Calcium | 132 | 264 |
| Vitamin B12 | 1.55 | 3.1 |
| Omega 3 | 13.2 | 26.4 |
| Magnesium | 50.5 | 101 |
| Potassium | 714 | 1430 |
| Caffeine | 0 | 0 |
| Cost | £1.91 | £3.81 |
Component details (1)
Aggregated amounts used by this recipe.
- Poached Chicken — Amount required: 200 g