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ABP’s Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup Recipe & Giveaway!

Au Bon Pain has been offering tons of new menu items this spring (read more about it here). They have shared a delicious soup recipe below AND have sponsored a giveaway for you guys to try out some of the tasty goodies they are offering for breakfast and lunch at restaurants throughout the country! One lucky reader will receive two, ten dollar gift cards (giveaway below the recipe)! Nosh on an egg sandwich with a coffee for breakfast or dig into one of their fresh salads! Good luck!

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Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup

Serves 6

 

Chicken Breast, cooked and chopped 2 cups
Celery – medium dice ½ cup
Carrots – medium dice ½ cup
Onion – medium dice 1 cup
Canola Oil 4 tbsp
Orzo, cooked 1 cup
Garlic, finely chopped 1 clove
Basil, finely chopped 1 tsp
Thyme- fresh 1 tbp
Lemon Juice, fresh 1 lemon
Lemon Zest ½ lemon
Heavy Cream 1/2 cups
Chicken Stock 6 cups
Salt & Pepper To Taste

In a heavy bottom soup pot, heat oil over medium heat and sauté onion, celery, and carrots, until the vegetables begin to sweat and soften, approximately 5-7 minutes.  Add garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute more. Season mixture with thyme, basil, salt, black pepper; continue cooking another 30 seconds before pouring chicken broth into the pot.  Bring the broth to a boil. Partially cover the pot, reduce heat to medium-low, and simmer until the vegetables are just tender, about 10 minutes. Stir orzo, lemon juice, and lemon zest into the broth; add chicken. Cook until the chicken and orzo are heated through, about 5 minutes. Add heavy cream and cook for an addition 2 to 3 minutes.

A few hints:

  • Use Rotisserie style chicken from the grocery store.  It adds a nice spike of flavor and saves time in preparation.
  • Garnish with fresh grated parmesan and more fresh basil for a beautiful presentation.
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  3. Tammy Barnett says

    Can’t do much with a $2 gift cerificate. But I guess it’s a bit of a downpayment for a nice bowl of that chicken soup.

  8. Tammy Barnett says

    OMG….another recipe or food item with abundant calories and too much fat.

    Why the need for heavy cream? It’s really a load of extra fat that can be avoided with clever cooking….maybe pureeing a bit of cooked rice or onions would thicken it without so many extra calories.

    Plus au bon pain uses fake turkey….yuk

  11. Tammy Barnett says

    Sandra oh Sandra, that’s not such a wise choice either. Go to Flour and get a real croissant or lacking that pick up Stone and Skillet muffins at whole foods-4 ingreguents, taste great and so much better than supporting the nothingness if a faceless chain like old bun pain

  14. Annmarie W. says

    I think their new Asparagus & Tomato Egg White Frittata breakfast sandwich would be delicious!