Currently cooking from The Carefree Cook by Rick Rodgers.
I don’t have a very large repertoire of side dishes, and I haven’t cooked with orzo before, so I was excited to try this recipe.
If you aren’t familiar with orzo, it is a small, rice-shaped pasta that cooks up quickly and can be flavored in a hundred different ways. This dish was simple, very tasty. You boil the orzo until tender (about 9 minutes), drain it, then toss it with the parmesan, peas and a bit of butter.
Any vegetable could be used here, although you might need to precook it. I ended up adding a bit of the pasta water to keep the dish from getting too dry. This dish would go with just about anything and the leftovers are good reheated.
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Adding some chicken would work really well. I might have to try that myself.
I wonder if you added some shredded chicken if you’d have a nice lunch dish to carry off to work? I love leftovers for a nice hot dish at noon time. Makes the afternoon go better. It actually looks quite pretty in that picture. It might be worth a shot at trying.