Mediterranean Chicken Orzo. Cook orzo pasta according to package directions. Fold in chicken, sundried tomatoes, olives, basil, lemon juice, olive oil and Parmesan cheese. Stir in remaining ingredients except cheese and olives.
One-Pot Mediterranean Chicken and Orzo This recipe for One-Pot Mediterranean Chicken and Orzo combines tender stuffed chicken thighs with tomatoes, cheese, and pasta.
A simple olive tapenade—a favorite Provençal condiment—adds irresistibly briny flavor to our pan-seared chicken, which also gets a layer of aromatic flavor from a coating of oregano.
It's perfect for serving atop a bed of tender orzo (a rice-shaped pasta) mixed with tangy feta and crisp sugar snap peas.
You can cook Mediterranean Chicken Orzo using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Mediterranean Chicken Orzo
- Prepare 3 of chicken breasts.
- You need 1 tbsp of paprika.
- It's 2 tbsp of all spice.
- It's 1 tsp of tumeric.
- Prepare 1 tsp of parsley.
- Prepare 2 tsp of olive oil.
- It's 2 of carrots.
- Prepare 2 stick of celery.
- Prepare 250 g of cherry tomatoes.
- It's 1 of onion.
- You need 250 g of mushrooms.
- Prepare 1 of vegetable stock cube.
- It's 1 tbsp of lemon juice.
- You need 400 g of orzo.
Quick-marinated boneless chicken nestled in a mixture of tiny orzo pasta with tomatoes and bell peppers. Of course, as you would expect, layers of flavor from onions, garlic, and a few spices. As cliche as this sounds, a sprinkle of feta cheese, just before serving, completes this chicken orzo for me. What to serve with this Greek Chicken Orzo?
Mediterranean Chicken Orzo step by step
- Mix the paprika, allspice, turmeric and a little salt. Coat the chicken and set aside for 10 minutes..
- Peel and cube the carrots..
- Chop the celery, slice the mushrooms and dice the onion..
- Chop the tomatoes in half..
- Add half the olive oil and chicken to a large pan and cook until browned..
- Add the rest of the olive oil, onion, mushrooms, carrot and celery..
- Cook until mushrooms are soft. Meanwhile make up the stock..
- Add the tomatoes, lemon juice and 100ml of the stock to the pan (save the rest for later)..
- Stir in the orzo, parsley and rest of the stock..
- Cook for another 20 minutes. Make up some more stock and add little bits if it gets too dry. Serve..
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Tips for Mediterranean chicken I like to use bone-in skin-on chicken thighs for this dish, but you can also use drumsticks or bone-in, skin-on chicken breasts. Orzo is a small rice shaped pasta that can be found with the rest of the pasta shapes at most grocery stores. You can use regular orzo or whole wheat orzo in this dish. This One-Pot Mediterranean Chicken with Orzo is full of bright lemon and herb flavor, and it's so easy to make.