# Chicken, Leek and Bacon Orzo

This dish features chicken and bacon with orzo pasta in a creamy sauce, perfect for colder weather.

- Cuisine: Italian
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 2 chicken breast
- seasoning
- bacon
- butter
- leeks
- garlic
- thyme
- uncooked orzo
- chicken stock
- cream
- Dijon mustard
- nutmeg
- Parmesan
- 1 wedge lemon

## Instructions

1. Slice a couple of chicken breasts.
2. Season both sides of the chicken breasts.
3. In a pan, render out the fat from some bacon until it's crispy.
4. Use the leftover bacon fat to fry the seasoned chicken breasts.
5. Once the chicken is lightly charred on both sides and cooked through, remove it from the pan.
6. Melt some butter in the same pan and fry the leeks with garlic and thyme.
7. Add uncooked orzo to the pan and stir.
8. Add chicken stock, cream, Dijon mustard, and nutmeg to make the sauce.
9. Once the orzo is cooked through, add the resting juices from the chicken.
10. Stir in some Parmesan cheese and the crispy bacon.
11. Serve up the orzo first.
12. Slice the cooked chicken breast and place it on top of the orzo.
13. Garnish with a wedge of lemon.

## Equipment

- pan
- cutting board
- tongs
- spatula

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNdT9Qyoq/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/bb28b536-fd47-49bd-8f06-5cbb67a4a5c6
- Extracted: 2025-11-04

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