Easy Veggie Orzo Soup
Updated Jan 28, 2025, Published on Jan 23, 2022
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This soup is SO easy to make. This soup can be easily modified to your liking/what ingredients you have on hand. Feel free to add additional veggies or swap the ones I used for what you have! For example, spinach would work great instead of kale. You could also switch the orzo for rice for a gluten free version.
This recipe is completely vegetarian as well if you use vegetable broth!
Most of the time spent on this recipe is letting the soup simmer. This is a hands off process so you can start doing some dishes or knock out another quick task while dinner cooks.
I hope you enjoy this one. Feel free to rate and comment if you try it!
Veggie Orzo Soup
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 Yellow Onion, diced
- 1/2 cup Carrots, julienned; I used matchstick carrots from the grocery store
- 1/2 cup Celery, finely diced
- 4 cloves Garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon Red Pepper Flakes, more or less based on spice preference
- Kosher Salt & Black Pepper, to taste
- 1 tablespoon Italian Seasoning, use less to taste
- 6 cups Chicken Broth, or vegetable broth
- 1 Bay Leaf
- 1/2 cup Orzo Pasta, uncooked
- 1 Lemon
- 4 cups Baby Kale , can use spinach
Instructions
- Heat olive oil over medium heat in Dutch oven. Add onion and cook for 5 minutes until softened and fragrant.
- Add carrots, celery, and garlic and cook for 3-4 more minutes. Stir in red pepper flakes, salt and pepper, and Italian seasoning.
- Stir in chicken broth. Add the bay leaf and orzo. Reduce heat to low and simmer for about 20-25 minutes until the orzo is cooked through.
- Remove bay leaf. Add the juice of one lemon. Add baby kale and stir until wilted.
Video
@carolbeecooks A simple veggie & orzo soup brightened up with a squeeze of lemon and some baby kale at the end 🥬 🍋 #souptok #goodsoup #orzo #veggiesoup
♬ original sound – veggibeats
Nutrition
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Very comforting and simple. Wasn’t feeling great and this brought me back to life!
Great way to use up leftover veggies! My lemon was super juicy, so I only used half. Otherwise, followed recipe exactly. Thank you!
I served this recipe to my guests and they enjoyed it however I only added a little bit of crushed peppers and a little Italian Seasoning. If I would have added what the recipe calls for, we wouldn’t have been able to enjoy it.