Creamy Parmesan Orzo
Creamy Parmesan Orzo

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, creamy parmesan orzo. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Creamy Parmesan Orzo is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Creamy Parmesan Orzo is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have creamy parmesan orzo using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Parmesan Orzo:
  1. Take 2 tbsp. olive oil
  2. Make ready 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
  3. Take 1/2 small yellow onion, diced finely
  4. Get 4 cloves garlic, minced
  5. Take 2 cups orzo pasta, uncooked
  6. Prepare 2 cups chicken broth, low sodium recommended
  7. Take 2 cups half & half
  8. Make ready 1 cup freshly shredded parmesan cheese
  9. Make ready to taste salt & pepper, dried parsley
  10. Make ready 2 cups roughly chopped spinach (optional)
Steps to make Creamy Parmesan Orzo:
  1. In a large pot with a tight fitting lid, heat the olive oil and butter over med-high heat. Once the butter has melted, add the onion to the pot and cook, stirring often, until translucent, about 3-5 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook until fragrant, just another minute or so.
  2. Stir in the orzo and let it toast for a couple of minutes. Increase the heat to high and stir in the broth and half & half. Once it reaches a boil, cover the pot with a lid and reduce the heat to med-low. Let this simmer for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the liquid has mostly been absorbed by the orzo.
  3. Remove the pot from the heat and immediately stir in the parmesan cheese (and the spinach if using). Then season to taste and serve immediately. Refrigerate any leftovers.

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