Cozy Wild Rice and Orzo Chicken Soup

Really tasty. Made with a legumes and rice soup mix as it was what I had on hand and it made it a bit too heavy. Would try with just orzo next

Recommend only using Orzo, add more chicken and garlic. Good with Zucchini as well.

After shredding chicken, leave out until the very end. Use whole milk, not cream. Chop the sage for the garlic sage butter. Make extra garlic sage butter! It’s wonderful!

I didn’t bother with the sage butter based on other reviews. I did it all in the crock pot and just put the orzo in with an hour left to cook. Everyone liked it. I don’t think it’s quite as good as leftovers.

More: carrots. Paprika? Add: lemon?? I don’t know why I just think that would be yummy Less: heavy cream Not needed: the sage butter; fresh paprika

Needed to cook the wild rice longer. Flavor was perfection. No need for the sage butter. Made mine in the Instant pot. Would also be good without the orzo and/or white rice. Cream made it rich but other substitutes woukd work just fine.

Simple and good, but won't make again. Too rich with the cream, and I'd rather have all rice rather than the orzo.

the garlic sage butter takes this to a whole new level. it’s absolutely worth it. we leave the sage whole and it gets nice and crispy and SO delicious. we’ve made this dish probably close to 10 times in the last few months and it never disappoints. this was my first meal postpartum too :) i usually leave out the celery and add a little more heavy cream to achieve the texture i want. serve it with a loaf of sourdough and 👌🏻 one of the best recipes i’ve ever found.

IMO - skip the sage butter and make sure you flavor/salt to taste (you’ll need extra if you skip this step). Sage butter is good but more work than I want to do at the end of this process. I did crockpot for 6 hours and finished stovetop for a bigger pot because I needed to add extra broth and room for cream