{"id":1479,"date":"2025-07-15T15:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2025-07-15T15:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:24:58","slug":"lemon-chicken-orzo-soup-janet-brocklehurst-alexs-aunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/lemon-chicken-orzo-soup-janet-brocklehurst-alexs-aunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup-Janet Brocklehurst (Alex&#8217;s Aunt)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I make this all the time! My &#8220;go to&#8221; chicken soup-Janet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 Tablespoon butter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 small yellow onion-finely chopped<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 carrots, thinly sliced or diced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 celery stalk, thinly sliced or diced<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2 Tablespoons minced fresh marjoram <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>8 cups chicken broth<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3\/4 cup orzo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6 ounces baby spinach (I only use 2-3 oz)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3 cups cooked chicken, shredded<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>salt and fresh ground pepper to taste<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1 lemon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Directions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saute onion in butter until translucent (3-4 minutes). Add carrots, celery, and marjoram and saute until softened. Add broth and simmer about 5 minutes to blend flavors. Add the pasta and cook about 3-4 minutes. Add chicken and spinach, stirring until spinach has wilted and chicken is warmed through. Squeeze juice from lemon into pot. Season with salt and pepper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use rotisserie chicken (either herb roasted or lemon pepper will add a lot of flavor)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes I make it without the spinach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key is really the lemon juice and marjoram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I make this all the time! My &#8220;go to&#8221; chicken soup-Janet Ingredients: Directions: Saute onion in butter until translucent (3-4 minutes). Add carrots, celery, and marjoram and saute until softened. Add broth and simmer about 5 minutes to blend flavors. Add the pasta and cook about 3-4 minutes. Add chicken and spinach, stirring until spinach &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/lemon-chicken-orzo-soup-janet-brocklehurst-alexs-aunt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup-Janet Brocklehurst (Alex&#8217;s Aunt)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[13,694,78,695,558,106],"class_list":["post-1479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicken","category-soups","tag-chicken","tag-chicken-soup","tag-lemon","tag-lemon-chicken-orzo-soup","tag-orzo","tag-soup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisrecipes.morgeneggs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}