Creamy Spanish Rice Soup Recipes

CREAMY CHICKEN RICE SOUP

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, heat oil over medium-high heat; saute carrot, celery and onion until tender. Add garlic; cook and stir 1 minute. Stir in rice, seasonings and broth; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, until rice is tender, about 15 minutes., Mix flour and milk until smooth; stir into soup. Bring to a boil; cook and stir until thickened, about 2 minutes. Stir in chicken; heat through.

SPANISH RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Cut round steak into small cubes (I make mine 1/2 inch or less).
• In dutch oven, cook beef and garlic in butter over medium heat until no longer pink.
• Lightly process can of tomatoes in food processor until chunks are smaller and the consistency is a little more saucy without being completely tomato sauce.
• Add tomatoes, water, bouillon cubes, and entire contents of Spanish Rice mix to meat and garlic in dutch oven.
• Cover tightly and simmer over low heat 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

TRADITIONAL SPANISH RICE SOUP

Steps:

• Heat a stock pot with a medium heat and add in 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• After 2 minutes, add in 1 small onion finely diced, 1 carrot (peeled) finely chopped and 4 cloves garlic roughly chopped, mix with the olive oil, once the onion is translucent, about 3 minutes, add in 1 cup uncooked round rice, mix together and cook the rice for about 2 minutes while mixing continuously, then add in 1 1/4 cups canned chickpeas (drained & rinsed) and season with sea salt & black pepper, gently mix together, then add in 6 1/2 cups vegetable broth, 1/4 tsp saffron threads and 1 sprig fresh rosemary, raise the heat to a high heat, mix together and bring to a boil, then place a lid on the stock pot and lower the heat to a low-medium
• While the soup is cooking, make the hardboiled eggs, add in 2 eggs into a sauce pan, fill with cold water, about 1/2 inch (1.25 cm) above the eggs and heat with a high heat, once it comes to a boil, place a lid on the sauce pan and turn off the heat, let the eggs sit there between 11 to 12 minutes to get perfectly hardboiled eggs
• After simmering the soup for 18 minutes with the lid on, the rice should be perfectly cooked, remove the stock pot from the heat
• Transfer the soup into shallow bowls, top off each one with the hardboiled eggs (roughly chopped) and a generous portion of finely chopped parsley, serve at once, enjoy!