Hearty Chicken Soup with Orzo and Spring Vegetables

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 1996

A broth developed from an Edna Lewis recipe makes full-flavored chicken soup possible in less than ninety minutes.

SERVES 6 to 8

TIME 2 hours

Hearty Chicken Soup with Orzo and Spring Vegetables

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a full-flavored chicken soup recipe that could be made in less than 90 minutes, we borrowed an idea from an Edna Lewis recipe, beginning by sautéing a chicken, minus the breast (which we used later as meat for the soup), hacked into sma...

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