Appetizers / Soups / Salads

Avgolemono Chicken Soup is for Dinner.

Avgolemono Chicken Soup takes several minutes to prepare.

Avgolemono Chicken Soup takes several minutes to cook.

Avgolemono Chicken Soup makes 6 servings.

The ingredients for Avgolemono Chicken Soup are:

1 chicken breast skin removed
2 chicken thighs
1 cup white rice, short grain
1 tea spoon margarine or butter unsalted
1 large egg
Lemon juice from 1 large lemon
12 cups water
1/2 tbsp salt
Black pepper 1 pinch

Here is how you make Avgolemono Chicken Soup:

In a large pot boil chicken breast and thighs with 12 cups of water on medium heat untilmeat is tender. Remove chicken from broth.Add rice, butter, salt and pepper and cook for 15 minutes. Rice must be tender. Cut chicken into bite size pieces and return to pot.In the meantime in a large bowl beat egg adding slowly the lemon juice. Use a ladle to add 4-5 cups of hot broth in the bowl with egg - lemon mixture. Return the whole mixture to pot and remove from heat. Makes 6-7, 2-cup servings.Number of Servings: 6Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user PARASKEVI4.

The nutritional information for Avgolemono Chicken Soup is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 6
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 157.5

• Total Fat: 4.6 g
• Cholesterol: 89.7 mg
• Sodium: 1,453.1 mg
• Total Carbs: 11.6 g
• Dietary Fiber: 0.0 g
• Protein: 16.3 g