What can you make with orzo?!

Get cubed meat, what you would make beef stew with, about a pound.

Heat a dutch oven, or big pot, on med-high heat, add a small amount of oil. Pat the beef dry and season with salt and pepper. Drop in the hot oil and brown on all sides. Reduce heat and then add one large diced onion and a few cloves of chopped garlic, cook till the onions are sticking to the meat, making a kind of crust.

Pour in half a bottle of decent (you have to be willing to drink it) red wine. Scrape up the bottom of the pan. Put in two cans of diced tomatoes. Two cups of beef broth. And season with dry oregano, pepper and salt. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low, cover and cook till beef is tender. Stir in a cup of orzo and if the liquid is low some more broth. The orzo will be done rather quickly.

My greek friend makes this, and I have even done it in a pressure cooker to reduce time. It's the same, you add the orzo when the beef is just about done. If you put orzo in in the start it will get mushy


you can also make a pasta salad with diced peppers, green onions, black olives, crumbled feta and cherry tomato's. Finish it off with a red wine vinaigrette.

Make a rice pilaf. Brown half a cup of orzo in butter with finely chopped onion. Add a cup of rice (I use par boiled rice for this it just works well), two and a half cups of chicken stock bring to a boil. When the liquid reduces by half, reduce to low cover and cook for 10 min. Leave lid on for 10 min after you turn it off. Fluff with fork and serve.

It is delicious in chicken noodle soup, replace the egg noodles with orzo.

Add orzo to a cold salad - with spinach leaves, crumbled feta cheese, olives and pine nuts.

Another option for using orzo is to use it as a dessert. Substitute it for rice in rice pudding.

Sauté dried orzo in butter on medium-high heat until it is light brown. Stir in water or chicken stock. Once it has reached boiling stage, cover and reduce the heat to a simmer. In about 15 to 20 minutes, the orzo will have absorbed the liquid. Add some shallots or green onions or garlic or whatever you got. Some frozen peas, corn, then the orzo, add herbs and spices for flavor.

It's great simply dressed with a light pesto.

Use it in stuffed red peppers in place of rice or in paella

I use orzo a lot. Especially to make a pasta type salad. My favorite is a Mediterranean salad. I cook the orzo a minute or two less than package says and add olive oil, lemon, parsley or basil, feta cheese, kalamata olives, tomatoes, garbanzo beans and any other veggies or herbs you like. I serve it cold. It makes for a great, quick and healthy lunch or snack.

I have never used orzo, but I see it being used, mostly in salads, on TV quite a bit. Here is a link to some
recipes.

http://www.google.com/#sclient=psy&hl=en…

Orzo is preety much pasta, just cook it like pasta, or lika risotto you can find betetr recipes on google then on here

experience

Nothing. There are no foods you can make with that. It's best used to put in salt shakers to prevent moisture buildup.