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Colorful Garlic Orzo

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Recipe Summary Colorful Garlic Orzo

This dish is fast, easy, colorful, healthy, and delicious! Don't skip the chicken broth; it adds essential flavor to the dish. I like mine extra garlicky and go for the full 6 cloves, but it's plenty flavorful with less. You can use just about any veggies or meat in this recipe and it will still be great. I use all frozen veggies so I only need to shop for tomatoes, and even those I could use canned if I feel lazy, making this a true from-the-pantry meal with no shopping required.

Ingredients | Emerald Green Color

4 cups chicken broth

2 cups orzo pasta

1 ½ pounds lean ground turkey

4 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste

½ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more to taste

4 cups fresh spinach leaves

4 cups frozen broccoli florets

1 pint cherry tomatoes

⅔ cup frozen peas

⅔ cup frozen carrots

salt and ground black pepper to taste

Directions

Bring chicken broth to a boil. Cook orzo in the boiling broth, stirring occasionally, until cooked through but firm to the bite, about 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat; do not drain.

Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat; cook and stir turkey in the hot skillet until crumbly and evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Stir garlic and red pepper flakes into turkey; cook for 1 minute. Reduce heat to medium. Add spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, peas, carrots, orzo, and broth to the turkey mixture and cook, stirring often, until spinach is wilted and tomatoes begin to split, 5 to 10 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.

I usually use a heaping 1/2 teaspoon of the red pepper flakes. This dish is very light but the garlic and red pepper flakes give it tons of flavor!

Info | Emerald Green Color

prep: 15 mins cook: 25 mins total: 40 mins Servings: 6 Yield: 6 servings

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