Greek Egg Lemon Chicken Soup with Cauliflower Rice (Video)

Greek Egg Lemon Chicken Soup is traditionally made with rice, but it was equally delicious with cauliflower rice for a low-carb version! Of course you can use rice if you prefer!

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This Greek Egg-Lemon Chicken Soup with Cauliflower Rice is a fun twist on Greek Avgolemono Soup, which is one of those dishes I’ve been passionately in love with ever since the first time I tried it! And I think I first had Egg Lemon Chicken Soup in college, so that’s a long time I’ve been loving this chicken and rice soup that’s thickened with eggs and lemon. I’m guessing I first tasted the soup at The Other Place, a Greek-American restaurant in Salt Lake City, and I still like their version of this classic Greek dish.

I first made this soup for the blog more than ten years ago (!) and that version was adapted from The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines (affiliate link), a very old cookbook with lots of good ideas. I make the soup with leftover rotisserie chicken and chicken stock from the freezer, and I had those things on hand when the idea struck me to try making a low-carb version of this favorite soup by replacing the rice with cauliflower rice!

And for a delicious low-carb soup, the Egg Lemon Greek Chicken Soup with Cauliflower Rice was really good. And personally I think this is a pretty healthy soup no matter whether you use rice or cauliflower rice, and I’m featuring it for this week’s Friday Favorites post to see if I can entice you to make it; enjoy! 

What ingredients do you need for this recipe?

What is Avgolemono Sauce? 

What makes this soup special is the Avgolemono Sauce that you mix into the soup to thicken it, a mixture of beaten eggs, and fresh lemon juice and zest that’s mixed with some of the hot soup and then gently stirred back into the rest of the soup. The egg-lemon sauce that thickens the soup is one of the classic sauces in Greek cuisine! Avgolemono Sauce isn’t really that difficult to make, but you must be careful not to let the soup boil after it’s been added or it will curdle the soup.

Can you make Greek Egg Lemon Chicken Soup with rice?

Of course you can make this type of Greek Chicken Soup with rice! And I have to be honest and say that if I was seriously in need of comfort food, I’d still make this soup with rice for a treat and use the low-glycemic Uncle Ben’s Converted Rice (affiliate link) that so many Greek cooks use in the U.S.

Want more ideas for Cauliflower Rice?

You can check out Low-Carb and Keto Soups with Cauliflower Rice to find more tasty soup recipes that use cauliflower rice like this one.

How to Make Greek Egg-Lemon Chicken Soup with Cauliflower Rice:

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1. If you don’t have leftover cooked chicken you’ll need to cook 3-4 chicken thighs or 2 chicken breasts in some chicken stock, but I had rotisserie chicken that I just cut up to make 2 cups diced chicken. Use a bit more chicken if you prefer a thicker soup.
2. Heat olive oil in a large soup pot and saute the onion the onion until it’s barely starting to brown.
3. Then add Dried Parsley (affiliate link), and Dried Thyme (affiliate link) and cook a few minutes more. 
4. Add homemade chicken stock (or canned chicken brother) and simmer for 10-15 minutes.
5. If you’re going to use cauliflower rice, buzz chopped cauliflower in the food processor until you have about 1 1/2 cups chopped cauliflower, or use frozen cauliflower rice if you want to make it easy. 
6. For rice, measure 1/2 cup rice, preferably Uncle Ben’s Converted Rice (affiliate link). 
7. Add the raw cauliflower (or rice) to the stock mixture and simmer until until it’s done, about 20-25 minutes for rice or fresh cauliflower rice, and slightly less for frozen cauliflower rice. 
8. Add the diced chicken to the soup and simmer over very low heat for 5  minutes.
9. Zest a lemon and measure out 1 teaspoon of lemon zest.  Then squeeze that lemon and enough more to get 1/4 cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice.  (You can also use fresh-frozen lemon juice.) 
10. Beat eggs until they look frothy, then whisk in the lemon zest and lemon juice.
11. Remove one cup hot broth from the soup and whisk into the egg mixture a little at a time. Then stir the egg-lemon mixture back into the soup and cook over the lowest possible heat until it thickens, but do not boil. 
12. Some Greeks make this soup with just chicken stock, rice, and the Avgolemono sauce, but I always like the pieces of chicken in the soup.

Yes, I Really Love Greek Chicken:

Greek Chicken Bake
Greek Lemon Chicken 
Greek Chicken, Green Beans, and Tomatoes Sheet Pan Meal
Greek Chicken Foil Packets
Instant Pot Low-Carb Greek Chicken Tacos
Instant Pot Cauliflower Rice Greek Chicken Bowls 
Very Greek Grilled Chicken

Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
Uncle Ben’s Converted Rice is the lowest-glycemic type of white rice, and if you use that for this Greek Egg-Lemon Chicken Soup it would be good for phase 2 or 3 of the original South Beach Diet. Using cauliflower rice would make this a very low-carb soup, suitable for any phase of the original South Beach Diet or any other type of low-carb eating plan.

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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
I first made this delicious Egg Lemon Chicken Soup for the blog in 2006. Recipe was updated with more information in 2022.

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