Avgolemono: Chicken Soup with Egg-Lemon Sauce

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This soup is excellent and easy to make! I have made it countless times, and my Greek Father loves it. I make it for holidays, but my favorite thing is to make it along with a spinach pie for a delicious winter meal. I make it according to the directions, and serve it to my husband with extra lemon wedges to squeeze into it. My kids dont like too much lemon, and this works out great. I especially love this soup because it is like a cream soup, but without any cream! MAKE THIS!

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So I am making this for the second time in two weeks! This is a great recipe that is easy and quite flavorful. I like my soups thick, so I added a little more rice (used low glycemic basmati rice, which was awesome. This will definitely be one of my "go to" planning lunch or dinner for the week recipes! Great work Chef Cora.

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Pretty good and just what my daughter was wanting when she was feeling under the weather. Not quite as lemony or as thick as the soup at our favorite Greek restaurant, but good flavor none-the-less.

I used 1 qt. organic vegetable broth and then covered the bird with water. Reduced salt by 2 T and did not add veggies since the broth had salt. I cubed two carrots, one stalk of celery, and cooked with the onion in olive oil and added in when Cat put in the veggies for an hour. Also cubed the chicken meat really small as that is what we are used to.

I did discover that the arborio rice continues to disintegrate, so leftovers are thicker and the rice is not al dente. I can see why some put the rice in when serving.

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Never heard of Avgolemeno until my sick friend was wishing for some on Facebook yesterday - so I Googled it, found this recipe, made it today and I have to say IT'S DIVINE it's AMAZING. It will be a family staple from now on! :

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I liked this recipe a lot. I usually make my stock with more vegetables, but this was a simple and tasty stock! I did do a few things different though:

1 I don't like cooking my grains in soups b/c they tend to get too mushy or to sop up all the liquid if saving it for the next day, so i cooked the rice & onions separately and added to each bowl at the end.

2 I love the soothing lemon flavor, but it needed a kick, so i added a pinch more salt & pepper, a few shakes of dried basil and some hot pepper flakes! Made it more interesting!

3 I also find it annoying to pick through bones, so I bought a package of free-range thinly sliced chicken breast and a package of boneless, skinless thighs instead of the whole chicken.

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For the amount of effort this soup takes, it didn't really live up to it. The lemony flavor of the soup was very sharp, even though I only added 1/3 cup of lemon, but i was hoping that the egg would have been in the background, but nope. I do think that soup is good enough to be finished, but won't be making it again. i'll keep looking. Thanks

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Yesterday, Sunday, February 13, in El Dorado Hills, CA, I "experienced" this soup made per Cat's recipe. After having avgolemono for almost forty years as a non-Greek, I thought I'd died and gone to Mt. Olympus: it's far and away the best I've had in over 35 years of being married to a Greek. Alexis (Greek wife too was significantly impressed. Through the years, we've had great avgolemono at her mom's of but (turn this down to a whisper: this "avgo" takes the art form to a whole new level. Thank you!

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Sorry Cat but this is NOT authentic ... I make it very authentic and differently. As a Pro Home Chef,I find that many so called chefs like Burrell try to do things their way and ruin the food! Cat, on the other hand, needs to say that the recipe is hers and not let others think it is authentic... While tasty, it just doesn't quite hit the mark. Not quite " On SpoT "...

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Made this exactly as directed, and it was delicious. Being half Greek, I grew up watching my Yia-Yia make this soup, but never had a recipe with exact measurements. So I've made it many times before, but was always guessing. My grown daughter said "It's delicous. i missed this soup Mom!" that made me very happy. So glad to finally have a recipe. Thanks Cat!

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I wanted to make a chicken soup but was looking for something a little different from the usual. Although I never would have thought about adding lemon and it seemed a bit odd to me, I tried this version with a few changes for dietary reasons (I added celery and extra leeks but omitted the onions & carrots. Everyone gave it two thumbs up and said they want me to make it again.