Orzo

Orzo is Italian for barley, though it sounds like rice and is made of pasta. Orzo is sometimes called risoni (big rice). I moved it here to the rice chapter after the restructuring of the pasta chapter because it cooks like rice.

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp. olive oil
• ½ lb. orzo
• 2 cups chicken broth
• handful of pine nuts (optional)

Directions

1. Heat broth in a small pot.
2. Toast pine nuts in dry sauce pan. Remove.
3. Add oil to the pan and toast orzo in it.
4. Add broth gradually, as with risotto.