Dinner · 30 min · Amounts not specified
Avgolemono soup
Temper the eggs with hot stock so you get silk, not scramble. Lemon last.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 30 min
mediumWhy tonight. Temper the eggs with hot stock so you get silk, not scramble. Lemon last.
What it needs
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- chicken
- eggs
- lemon
- rice
- stock
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: dill.
Method
- Simmer chicken in stock with rice until the grain is tender.
- Beat eggs with lemon. Whisk in a ladle of hot stock to warm them, then return to the pot off the boil.
- It should go silky, not scrambled. Dill if you have it. Salt last.
Technique coach
What the method is trying to make happen
Sequence, correction, heat and texture, equipment workarounds, scaling, and component reuse are available with this cook sheet.
An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.
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The technique underneath this
- Pan sauceTurning what stuck to the pan into a sauce. Two minutes of work at the end of something you already cooked.watery · too salty · greasy · broken · bitter
- StockPulling gelatin and flavor out of bones and aromatics without pulling out the things that make it cloudy and bitter.thin and watery · cloudy · bitter · greasy
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Published minimums for what is in this
These are published minimums, not doneness preferences and not a verdict about any particular piece of food. Ground meat sits above whole cuts of the same animal because grinding moves the surface through the middle — the species is not the reason.
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- StocksClassic Chicken Broth/Stock | Chef Jean-PierreChef Jean-PierreThe plain classical method, including when to skim and why nobody bothers to explain it.Link checked 2026-09-08
- StocksChicken Stock Recipe - How to Make Easy Homemade Chicken Stock | Food WishesFood WishesSaved carcass, vegetable trim, water. The version that actually gets made on a Tuesday.Link checked 2026-09-08
- StocksOur Favorite Way to Make Homemade Chicken StockAmerica's Test KitchenWhere body comes from — the ratio that gives a stock enough gelatin to set in the fridge.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- chicken
- Two different foods depending on the cut.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- lemon
- Acid you add at the end, not the start.
- rice
- Starch that either steams or fries, and the two want opposite things.
- stock
- Body, not flavor — that is the part people get backwards.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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