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Submitted by Sackville
"I got this recipe from a friend, who served it to me one chilly night. It is very much a "comfort food" for me and quite easy to make with leftover chicken. When you are adding the eggs, be careful to add them very slowly and make sure the soup is not too hot, otherwise your eggs will split. I find it helps to take the soup off the burner for a few minutes before adding the eggs. You should end up with a smooth cream-like base to your soup, not broken eggy bits like in egg drop soup."
photo by Heather S. 
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
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4-6
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ingredients
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- 1⁄3 cup rice, uncooked
- 1⁄3 cup carrot, diced
- 1⁄3 cup celery, chopped
- 1⁄4 cup onion, finely chopped
- 1 cup chicken, cubed and cooked
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 3 eggs
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- salt and pepper
- lemon slice (optional)
- sliced green onions or parsley (optional)
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directions
- In a large saucepan, combine chicken broth, bouillon cube, rice, carrots, celery and onion.
- Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes or until rice and vegetables are tender.
- Stir in chicken.
- Remove from heat.
- Then, in a small saucepan, melt butter and stir in flour until smooth.
- Gradually add 2 cups of broth mixture, cook until slightly thickened, stirring constantly.
- In a small bowl, beat the eggs until frothy.
- Gradually beat lemon juice and 2 cups thickened broth into the large pot of soup.
- Very slowly add egg mixture into the soup, stirring constantly. Do not do this if your soup is boiling or very hot or your eggs will split. You may want to take the soup off the burner for a few minutes before you add the eggs.
- Heat gently until soup thickens enough to coat a spoon-- do not boil!
- Add salt and pepper to taste, garnish with lemon.
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Reviews
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I agree that this was a little bland so i added extra chicken base to it along with extra lemon. I used 2 9oz cans of swanson chicken undrained. a little more than 1/3 cup rice. I didnt add the chicken till the end of the 20min cooking time since it was already cooked and didn't want it to be mush. i only used 2 eggs and felt that it was sufficient. Instead of adding you egg to the boiling hot soup try tempering it instead. Beat the egg then add lemon juice to it to thin, then whisk in one ladel of broth at a time to the egg mix (about 4 ladels total) this will eliminate the egg spliting and then you can add the egg mix directly to the soup ot without worry of the egg splitting or cooking while mixing in.
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Never did I imagine I could make a soup this delicious! This is the best soup I have ever made and I will absolutely be making in again in the near future! Thank you so much for such a wonderful recipe! It was YUMO!
cookbrandy
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This soup was very good! I made it back in the fall and froze the leftovers. I pulled it out when I wanted something light when I was feeling under the weather, and it was the perfect (low fat) comfort food! Thank you for such a great recipe, I'm sure I'll be making it again this fall when the weather cools off.
Mrs. Cavanar
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Awesome soup. I am the worst cook when it comes to soup and this one is a winner. Would definitely make this again. I had turkey broth and turkey instead of chicken. I used brown rice. I cooked it in the broth alone for 40 minutes and then put in the vegetables for 20 minutes. Wow.
NM Patricia
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This is one of the most delicious things I've ever made, I absolutely loved it! The only thing I did differently was to add more lemon, but that's because I'm a lemon fiend. I didn't have any problem at all with blandness, probably because I tossed in a huge clump of chicken crystal things. This is now my favorite soup, thank you!
sashyd
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Tweaks
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This was ok. I probably need to give it another try. I didn't have chicken just the chicken stock so I figured this would be a fairly decent soup even without the meat. I used vermicelli noodles instead of rice and cut the eggs down to 2 since I didn't have as much broth as the recipe called for. Also, you can't get lemons here so I used lime juice instead. It was just a tiny bit tart for me. Might be because lime is more concentrated.
manderson
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Loved it. Used barley instead of rice and added spinach at the very end.
Schokobroetchen
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Awesome flavor!! The only change I made was to omit the chicken. I am in my first trimester of pregnancy and chicken is not my friend right now. But the soup was great without it. I can't believe how silky smooth the soup is. I used Jasmine rice and organic chicken base instead of the bullion and broth. Great flavors. Even my 2 and 4 year old loved the soup. Thanks for the recipe!!
bebeboy03
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Pretty tasty! I didn't have all the ingredients but it still came out good. I used more rice, celery seed instead of celery, freeze dried minced onion, no carrots and I used TrueLemon (crystallized lemon) and we had turkey and turkey broth from dinner last week. YUMMY
Johanna1476
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Awesome soup. I am the worst cook when it comes to soup and this one is a winner. Would definitely make this again. I had turkey broth and turkey instead of chicken. I used brown rice. I cooked it in the broth alone for 40 minutes and then put in the vegetables for 20 minutes. Wow.
NM Patricia
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