This easy carrot orzo is flavored with carrot juice and cooked like a risotto recipe using orzo pasta inside of rice.
Course Side Dish
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 30 minutesminutes
Total Time 45 minutesminutes
Servings 8
Calories 208kcal
Author Kat Jeter & Melinda Caldwell
Ingredients
2Tbsp. Lemon juice
2c. Carrot juice
2c. Chicken or Vegetable Broth
1c. Carrot, finely diced
1c. Onion, finely diced
3Tbsp. Butter
10oz. Orzo
1/2c. White Wine
1/4tsp. Salt
Instructions
In a small saucepan combine lemon juice, carrot juice, and broth. Heat over medium low heat until warmed through.
In a skillet heat over medium high heat and add butter carrots and onion. Cook for 5-7 minutes.
Add orzo to the mixture and stir to toast the orzo.
Add 1/2 a cup of white wine to the orzo and stir until the liquid is absorbed.
Begin ladling the carrot broth into the orzo a 1/2 cup at a time letting the liquid be absorbed before added the next ladle full of liquid. Continue doing this until the orzo is cooked through.