This incredible Greek avgolemono soup is loaded with chicken, rice, vegetables, and lemon flavor for the ultimate comfort food. This is a family favorite and is in my regular recipe-making rotation throughout those cool fall and winter months.
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Ingredient for this recipe:
For the Stock:
• 1 whole roasting chicken
• 1 roughly chopped yellow onion
• 2 roughly chopped carrots
• 2 roughly chopped celery stalks
• 2 garlic cloves
• 2 bay leaves
• 4 sprigs of parsley
For the Soup:
• 1 gallon chicken stock
• 1 ½ cups short-grain rice
• 1/2 peeled and small diced red onion
• 2 small diced leeks
• 2 peeled and small diced carrots
• 2 peeled and small diced celery stalks
• 2 finely minced garlic cloves
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 egg
• juice and zest of 2 lemons
• salt and pepper to taste
33 Comments
Chef is right. Follow technique for tempering the eggs. I have made the mistake in the past for not. You will get scrambled eggs! Live and learn! Thank you Chef! 😀
I've never heard of this. Looks so good! Thanks Chef
Being Greek this is my comfort food. I make small batches in half hour if I need to but usually make a big pot and it eat it all within 2-3 days. I make roughly 2 gallons with 2 cups of rice, 6 eggs and one cup of lemon. I usually add a couple more lemons after it's done.
What garlic press do you use?
I love that you cheer us on to try your recipes. But I really like how you teach how to make the recipes. The step by step and explanation on why or why not is amazing. You make trying this recipe easy to follow, so thank you so much for sharing. 👍🏼👍🏼 also it make me come back for more recipes 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Man i really appreciate this channel. My wife is a BIG soup lover and i love making the different soups on your channel for her. Thanks Chef!
It’s great to see your version of Avgolemono. It is one of my winter favs. Add a chicken salad sandwich on toasted cinnamon raisin bread and Life is Good!
This is my absolute favorite soup. I will definitely make it. Thanks chef.
Thank you so much Chef Billy. I love soup but have never heard of this one. Definitely will be making it. We are in a deep freeze here in Calgary so a hearty bowl of soup is a must. P.S. If anybody else says ‘it’s a dry cold’ – well, I’ll just leave you with that 🤣🤣☃️
I love chicken and rice soups. But this recipe is a kick up the alley. A must try during the winter months in Nortern Ontario Canada. Thanks for sharing the recipe. Great Video.
Best Regards.
U put veg in it ?❤️🙏
Nice soup
you can use orzu pasta instead of rice if you like.
This looks quite simple and I KNOW I can make this. My favorite soup, too!!
New subscriber here. Great content, thank you. I was watching one of your earlier videos and you mentioned your techniques with knives video. I can't seem to find it among your hundreds available LOL.
Hey ..its better to boil the water first then add the chicken and other ingredients ..you get the most pure broth
Interesting sharing, awesome recipe and looks yummy too, cheers,….🥰😍
I will try this great recipe, ando totally agree a whole chicken makes a huge diference in taste 🤗
Dill and parsley take this soup to a different level! Πολύ ωραία, Μπράβο 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👌
Looks so yummy and mouthwatering! Thank you for the step by step instructions and for sharing.
Nice 😋
Can’t wait to try! Love your recipes
Mr. P this looks delicious I will make it thank you and May God Bless 🙏
Made this for dinner last night. It was a huge hit! My brother in law who lives with us is very picky. We assumed he could figure out dinner for himself with the extra chicken. What a shock. He loved it. I just told him it was a version of chicken soup. If I had said it was Avgolemono soup, he wouldn't have even tried it.
Sorry cheff but this nothing but avgolemon soup. It is a vegetable soup with rice lemon and egg. The real avgolemon is what it says Avgo "eggs" lemonon "lemon" with rice and pieces of chicken
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Omg, where have I been? I never heard of this but now I need to make it!
Make this all the time. My family also like pork and celery, pork and leek, pork and greens. Chicken and leeks is good.
I’m so cold right now but the thought of making this is already warming me up! I’ve been big into soups lately. I love the presentation of your video. I make cooking videos too! 🧑🍳 I love to be inspired and learn from other talented creators like you. 👍🏻thanks for sharing!
A variation that my Greek mom uses is orzo instead of rice. We often use hilopites, which are small egg noodles, in my parents' villages when making avgolemono, and orzo is a great adaptation we learned in the US. It gives the starchiness of rice, but a bit more bite from the pasta than the mushiness you get from rice. Other small pasta (ditilini, couscous, pastina) would be great too, avgolemono is a lovely rustic dish that lends itself to whatever you have on hand.
OMG! I LOVE THIS SOUP!!!! Especially like the addition of leeks…adds so much more flavor. The only thing I do differently is the avgolemono. Thanks for sharing this awesome recipe!
Well so far I only see about three people who have actually made this recipe, including myself. It was about 10F last night outside and breezy here on a small island in Kittery, Maine. We have always made scratch chicken soup, but made this recipe last night EXACTLY as you did and man my wife and I and our friends that visited all agree that this recipe is hands down THE BEST. It paired really nice with a chilled white wine we get from Sharpe Hill Vineyards in CT. Used to get a very similar soup at a Greek place we really liked but never were able to duplicate it. This is the stuff but even better. I think the key is the small dice vegetables and the lemon. The eggs really gave it a nice thick consistency. Thanks loads for sharing!
He's going to "SHtrain" it ladies and gentlemen.