Simple Sunday dinner:
Chicken and Farro Soup with Shiitake Mushrooms
Following a busy, social weekend with big meals and late evenings, Sunday is nicely relaxed and peaceful with no reservations, no make-up and no agenda. Dinner will reflect simplicity and balance with fresh and light ingredients and minimal fuss. It’s a perfect moment for this restorative chicken soup, using leftover meat and homemade stock from last week’s roast. Carrots, shiitakes, and fresh snipped parsley from our terrace pots brighten and flavor the soup, while farro adds a little nutritional heft to this easy one-dish meal.
Chicken and Farro Soup with Carrots and Shiitakes
Serves 4
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
2 large carrots, sliced 1/4 inch thick
1/2 pound shiitake mushrooms, trimmed, halved if large
6 cups chicken stock
1/2 cup farro
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cooked chicken breasts, 12 to 16 ounces, shredded in large pieces
1/4 cup chopped Italian flat leaf parsley
Heat oil in a soup pot or Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion and sauté until it softens without coloring, 2 minutes. Add carrots and mushrooms. Sauté until carrots brighten in color and mushrooms begin to release their juices, 2 to 3 minutes. Add stock, farro, bay leaf, thyme, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat. Cover and simmer until farro is tender, about 25 minutes. Stir in chicken and top off with additional stock if needed. Taste for seasoning. Simmer until chicken is heated through. Ladle into bowls. Serve hot, garnished with parsley.
I love a good soup on Sunday. There’s just something so nice about winding down a busy weekend with the slow, methodical preparation of making a soup. It’s especially nice when you can enjoy it throughout the week, too! This looks so delicious, Lynda. Thanks for sharing!
I have all the ingredients for this soup on hand. Looks delicious!
Great – I bought some farro and have had no idea what to do with it – perfect timing. I make so much soup to cut down on the salt in prepared soup found in the stores…
A delightful spring-like soup. Light and flavorful.
Cheers,
Rosa
Farro is such a delicious grain….lovely!
Your soups are always so fresh looking!
Pretty as a picture that soup! Fresh and beautiful, simple, love it.
Very appetizing and healthy!
I have a chicken roasting right now, and we will have lots of leftovers. Lovely looking soup!
A lovely soup that looks light and comforting. I like the addition of farro- great idea!
Your recipes sound wonderful, but I never use a recipe that doesn’t include nutritional facts. Is there a reason your recipes do not include these facts?
Thank you for your comment. I am good at creating recipes, but less quick at programming a website. Nutritional facts are high on my to-do list – once I figure out how to do it.
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