# Lemon Creamy Green Orzo Bake

This one-pan 5 ingredient meal is creamy, cosy, and spoonable, with the orzo soaking up all the flavour and the greens making it feel fresh and generous and not at all heavy.

- Servings: 3 servings
- Total time: 40 min
- Category: Breakfast
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 250 g frozen green vegetable medley
- 200 g orzo
- 150 g cream cheese
- 1 vegetable stock cube
- 600 ml hot water
- 1 lemon
- salt
- pepper

## Instructions

1. Heat your oven to 200 degrees fan.
2. Tip your frozen green veg medley into a baking dish.
3. Scatter over your orzo.
4. Crumble over your stock cube on top.
5. Add your lemon zest.
6. Add a good squeeze of lemon juice.
7. Add seasoning like salt and pepper to taste.
8. Pour over your boiling hot water.
9. Give everything a really good stir.
10. Add in spoonfuls of your cream cheese.
11. Give that a quick stir.
12. Top with foil or baking paper and bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
13. Remove the foil.
14. Give everything a really good stir.
15. Return to the oven for about 10 minutes until the orzo is tender and the sauce looks creamy and glossy and it's all combined.

## Equipment

- oven
- baking dish
- foil
- baking paper

## Tips

- To keep this vegan, you can use a vegan cream cheese on top instead of a dairy one.
- There's no pre-cooking, no faff, no additional pots or pans.

## Source

- Original video: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNR5rsrnP/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/d28ba675-1e78-48b6-bb0d-b3145e90b55f
- Extracted: 2026-02-23

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