Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, chicken thighs with orzo pasta. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
First you brown the chicken, then brown the orzo in the rendered fat, and then add some onions and garlic. Add the chicken back to the pasta, pour in some stock and crushed tomatoes, cover and cook until the pasta has absorbed the liquid. You can do most of the prep while the chicken is browning. The orzo pasta in this chicken and sausage recipe is cooked risotto-style.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook chicken thighs with orzo pasta using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Thighs with Orzo Pasta:
- Prepare 1 tsp Olive Oil
- Take 1 Medium - Large Chopped Onion
- Get 5 Chicken Thighs
- Prepare 2 cloves Garlic
- Get 1 tbsp Tomato Puree
- Prepare 1/2 pint Chicken Stock
- Make ready 1/2 Juice of Lemon
- Get 1/2 Red Pepper
- Make ready 400 gm tin Chopped Tomatoes
- Get 100 gs Orzo
- Take Salt
- Take Oregano
Great flavors, but not so much on texture. Orzo, which means "barley" in Italian and is also called risoni, is not a grain, but rather pasta that is shaped like a large grain of rice. You can brown chicken thighs in no time and then finish cooking them along with the orzo so everything is cooked together in only one pot (and a sheet pan if you. A quick and easy orzo / risoni pasta recipe for dinner tonight - chicken infused with Italian flavours and a rich tomato basil risoni, all made in one pot!
Instructions to make Chicken Thighs with Orzo Pasta:
- Heat oil in large frying pan, that has a lid. Add chopped onion and fry gently til soft.
- Score each piece and place in pan, skin side down. Keep moving the onions and turn thighs to colour all over, about 5-10 mins
- Grate garlic into onions, sprinkle thighs with oregano. Continue turning thighs. Add Tomato Puree and Red Pepper. Mix Puree into onions. Squeeze lemon juice in and stir.
- Add tin Tomatoes and salt to taste and bring to boil. You can add Worcestershire Sauce now and leave out the pasta and stock. Finish as 6 below.
- Add Chicken Stock and stir into Tomatoes. Add Orzo and stir through. Bring back to boil then turn down to lowest heat to get a simmer.
- Cover and simmer for about 30mins. Stir at 15mins to stop Orzo sticking to pan. After 30mins remove lid, add Worcestershire Sauce. Continue simmering for a further 10-15 mins while sauce thickens.
You can brown chicken thighs in no time and then finish cooking them along with the orzo so everything is cooked together in only one pot (and a sheet pan if you. A quick and easy orzo / risoni pasta recipe for dinner tonight - chicken infused with Italian flavours and a rich tomato basil risoni, all made in one pot! Marinating the chicken is optional - you can skip it by cutting the chicken into thinner steaks. Fill out the veggies and swap the herbs for whatever takes. For this skillet meal I combined chicken thighs seasoned with lemon pepper, orzo cooked in chicken broth, and a healthy dose of parsley and feta.
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