Spinach Orzo with Basil
Easy recipe for Spinach orzo with basil.
Ingredients
- 150 g orzo pasta
- 1 l chicken broth (or 1l water and 2 stock cubes)
- juice of ½ lemon
- 100 ml cooking cream
- a handful of parmesan cheese
- 1 big onion
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 tbsps olive oil
- a handful of fresh basil leaves
- 120 g baby spinach
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper
- a few leaves of fresh rosemary
Instructions
- In a food processor chop up fresh spinach, basil, olive oil, salt, rosemary, and black pepper. Chop until it looks like a liquid.
- Chop up the onion and mince the garlic. In a deeper pan fry the onion with garlic until soft and yellow – not brown.
- After, add washed orzo and fry together for 2 minutes, stirring nonstop. Pour spinach liquid, and chicken broth (or veggie broth) into the same pan and bring to a boil on high heat. Decrease the heat, cover the pan and cook the orzo for 8-10 minutes.
- Add cooking cream and parmesan cheese. Give it a good stir and cover it with a lid. I recommend turning off the heat and letting the flavours alone for another 10 minutes to sit. Add chickpeas on top. Enjoy!