Slow Cooker Greek Lemon Chicken Soup – Eggless Avgolemono

This amazing Greek lemon chicken soup has to be one of my favorite soups ever! Known as avgolemono soup in Greek, this freshly squeezed lemon juice and chicken-based dish makes a wonderful meal if you want something light. This eggless version of lemon chicken soup is always a hit for dinner. It is so easy to make this slow cooker soup. If you are looking for a recipe for chicken Avgolemono soup without the egg, this is one to try!

Avgolemono is a tasty chicken soup from Greece with lemon juice, chicken, herbs, and more. It’s light enough for an appetizer but filling enough for a meal.

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Avgolemono is pronounced ‘ah-voh-le-mo-no’ with the ‘g’ being silent. This word refers to the combination of lemon, eggs and broth. This mixture is used as a sauce for Greek dishes like dolmades (stuffed grape leaves), roasted chicken or vegetable dishes. It is also added to soups to thicken them up. This is a version without the egg and takes just as good!

Why You’ll Love It

• Comforting: Chicken soup is a comforting, nostalgic dish. Perhaps your mother or grandmother used to fix it for you when you were feeling a little under the weather. Most households have their own version of chicken soup or chicken noodle soup to lift the spirits.
• Easy: Using a crockpot makes this an easy recipe, as you just have to add things and let them cook.
• Authentic: This is a typical Greek soup with freshly squeezed lemon juice, chicken stock and more. Omitting the egg doesn’t detract from the amazingly rich flavour at all.

In this recipe for chicken avgolemono soup, we are using fresh chicken and chicken broth. Luckily we have some shortcuts these days, such as readymade broth, to cut down on prep time! We are also skipping the egg in this version of the traditional Greek soup. Oh, and if you have leftover rotisserie chicken, that works great.

Eggless Avgolemono Soup Ingredients

Along with the chicken, broth and lemon, this authentic Greek soup is flavoured with turmeric and dill weed. In addition, onion, garlic, carrots, and spinach add robust, fresh flavours. Then I like to add pasta to make it hearty.

I like ditalini pasta in this. Ditalini translates as ‘little thimbles’. It’s like a very short type of macaroni, and is sometimes called salad macaroni. Short types of pasta date back to the industrial age in Italy. Today this pasta is mass-produced of course.

In Greek, ditalini is known as ‘koftó makaronaki’. The reason I like to use ditalini is a simple one – it fits well on a spoon when eating soup! That’s a good rule of thumb for any delicious soup with pasta or noodles actually. Always use tiny pasta shapes!

How to Make Lemon Soup

• Slow cook some ingredients: Put the chicken in a slow cooker with the onion, carrots, garlic, salt, pepper, turmeric, lemon juice, and chicken stock, and cook for 2 hours on high.
• Shred the chicken: Shred the chicken and put it back in the crockpot with the pasta, spinach, dill, and remaining lemon juice.
• Finish cooking: Cook for 30 minutes, then serve hot garnished with dill weed and lemon slices.

How To Store Lemon Soup

• Store: Leftovers will keep for up to 3 days and can be warmed back up on the stove.
• Freeze: You can freeze the soup in portions, and then just thaw overnight and reheat.

Chicken Eggless Avgolemono Slow Cooker Soup: Some Tips

You can make an avgolemono soup in a slow cooker, which is really time-saving. The key to a really authentic Greek soup is to use fresh ingredients. The lemon is one of the most important flavours in avgolemono soup, so make sure you use fresh! The same is true for this eggless version of the popular Greek soup.

The same applies to the other ingredients. Use good quality chicken broth. It doesn’t have to be homemade but choose a brand you like. Use fresh onion, carrots and spinach. Also fresh dill weed if you can get it. Using top quality ingredients will result in an authentic Greek soup which you will love.

This recipe for eggless rotisserie chicken avgolemono soup might sound simple, and it really is. That is the key to its appeal. Just combining a few fresh, tasty ingredients is enough to bring the flavours of Greece to your dinner table.

How to Serve this Authentic Greek Soup (Eggless Version)

Try this Greek no egg lemon sauce soup with some crusty bread, preferably warm from the oven. If the pasta is enough carbs for you, then served just as it is would be great too. You can enjoy this for lunch or dinner, or even a small bowlful as an appetizer.

If you’re feeling at all under the weather, or suffering from a cold, you will find Greek lemon chicken soup to be a great pick-me-up. There is something very special about chicken noodle soup. And this Greek version is so easy to make and so delicious! If you are fan of soup with a hint of lemon, you may like this lemony white bean soup, too.

Greek slow cooker avgolemono is easy enough to throw together. It’s suitable for any occasion too, whether you want to impress guests or you just want a tasty snack. This eggless Avgolemono soup looks pretty garnished with herbs and lemon, so consider it an easy appetizer when you next have guests over.

Greek Lemon Juice Soup FAQs

Slow Cooker Greek Lemon Soup Recipe

Slow cooking and fresh ingredients are the secrets behind this wonderful recipe for eggless chicken avgolemono soup. The long, slow cooking time coaxes all the amazing flavours out of the ingredients. Then they meld and blend together beautifully to create this wonderful Greek lemon chicken soup.

Let me know if you try this Greek lemon juice and chicken soup that skips the eggs. It is so easy to make this slow cooker soup! If you are looking for a recipe for greek lemon chicken soup with no egg, this is one to try!

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