Egg and Lemon Soup with Toasted Orzo and Kale

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      35 min

Appears in
Easy Soups from Scratch with Quick Breads to Match: 70 Recipes to Pair and Share

By Ivy Manning

Published 2017

  • About

I learned to make this velvety chicken soup spiked with lemon, called avgolemono in Greek, while I was an exchange student in the lovely port town of Kavala, in northern Greece. The soup is thickened with eggs and it can be tricky to make without the soup curdling, but my Greek host-mother taught me to add a bit of cornstarch to the eggs before tempering them with some of the soup to stabilize the mixture. The result is a thick, rich soup that’s nearly foolproof. You can substitute w