Heart Healthy Lemon Orzo
Recipe: #31302
January 17, 2019
Categories: Side Dishes, Heart Healthy, Low Cholesterol Low Fat, Low Sodium, more
"Made this tonight and it was delicious. And very heart-healthy. Sodium content listed is way off. When using unsalted chicken broth, there is no more than 100 mg per cup. I use College Inn unsalted chicken stock, and it only has 50 mg per cup. So since this recipe has 4 cups of stock and serves 4, the sodium content should be around 50 mg per serving."
Original is 4 servings
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (296 g)
- Calories 195
- Total Fat - 10 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.3 g
- Cholesterol - 0 mg
- Sodium - 931.7 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 24.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.7 g
- Sugars - 1.4 g
- Protein - 3.7 g
- Calcium - 24.3 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 21.5 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Put chicken broth in small saucepan and bring to a boil. Add orzo and cook 10-12 minutes or just until tender.
Step 2
In the meantime, place 2 teaspoons olive oil in small skillet on medium-low heat. Add peppers and onions. Saute till onions are translucent. Add fresh thyme and saute 1 minute. Add minced garlic and saute 30 seconds. Take off heat.
Step 3
When orzo is cooked, drain in a mesh strainer and return to saucepan. Add sauted veggies, lemon juice, 2 tablespoons olive oil, black pepper and chopped basil and parsley. Stir well to combine.
Tips
No special items needed.
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