Lemon Chicken soup with Brown rice

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 8
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 313.4
  • Total Fat: 17.8 g
  • Cholesterol: 49.8 mg
  • Sodium: 1,434.3 mg
  • Total Carbs: 29.4 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 2.2 g
  • Protein: 7.9 g

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Introduction

Fresh and easy to make tasety chicken soup with a little zing from lemon Fresh and easy to make tasety chicken soup with a little zing from lemon
Number of Servings: 8

Ingredients

    Chicken broth
    2 cups water
    1 cube chicken bullion
    1.5 cups brown rice
    2 cups diced clelery
    1.5 cups onion
    2 chicken breast
    1 cup flour
    3/4 cup butter
    1 lemon
    1 bulb garlic
    sea salt
    pepper

Directions

In a large pot bring to boil chicken broth, water, bullion, celery, onions, brown rice, 1/2 bulb of garlic and 1/2 of juice of lemon (add more lemon for a stronger lemon flavor). Once boiling lower to simmer and cover.
In a sauce pan cook cubed chicken breast with lemon and rest of garlic until cooked through, add to main pot.
In a larger sauce pan melt butter and begin to add flour a little at a time making a roux, be sure to continue to stir throughout heating to avoid clumping and burning. Add Sea salt and pepper to flavor, add to main pot.
Continue to simmer main pot for at least an hour, longer for flavor to come together but stir occasionally to avoid rice sticking to bottom. Season with additional salt and pepper and add more water or milk if too thick.
Makes approx. 8 servings

Number of Servings: 8

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user JENNOWAK.