CHICKEN WITH ORZO
INGREDIENTS
1 large cut up chicken
1 pound orzo pasta
1 cup chopped tomatoes
¼ cup olive oil
4 - 5 garlic cloves, minced
Salt and pepper to taste
Wash and dry the chicken pieces well. I always love to cook chicken with skin and bones on. You will need 11x13 baking pan that will eventually hold about five cups of liquid.
Place the chicken pieces into the baking pan and season with salt, pepper, olive oil. Add garlic and tomatoes. Cook in a 370F. oven for about 45 minutes or until meat is tender αnd still has a light color. Then remove from the oven add about 4 cups of salted hot water and return to the oven. Let juices get almost bubbly and real hot and then add the orzo pasta. Make sure the pasta is all over and around the pan. You might have to add extra salt, cook until all pan juices are absorbed and pasta is cooked. Optional accent would be some sundried tomatoe pieces and or sliced kalamata olives.
Serve with a good portion of freshly grated parmesan cheese on top
Food for the body, soul and Spirit
- tastetravelswitheleni
- “GREEK DELIGHTS” Food represents one of the most important, yet understated activities in our lives and our daily practice. It is no co-incidence that food is the quantum essence of hospitality in cultures across the world. This is why cooking is considered as Cultural Heritage. From Eleni’s perspective, food is a more global synergy of factors and actors that fuse to bring us closer to creating and living the sense of taste and communal living. Eleni enacts hospitality through her perseverance in acquiring a fine balance between time, quality products and the creation of an adequate atmosphere so that food may transform itself into speech, heart-opening and the overcoming of cultural barriers. Eleni has functioned as a superb bond that keeps together family, church and community. Alongside her husband Alex and wonderful children Orestis and Danae, she chose to fight life’s adversities with spice and humour. In more depth, Eleni’s cooking is a form of creative prayer and thanksgiving. Created in God’s image, she thinks, forms and creates “Greek delights” for the body, soul and spirit. Enjoy! Dr. Lydia Evdoxiadi Cultural Heritage Consultant
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