Chicken & Bacon With Vegetables And Orzo/rice

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 cooked chicken breasts, cubed
• 3 slices hickory smoked thick sliced lean bacon, cut in 2 inch pieces
• 6 baby carrots, sliced
• 3 stalks celery, washed, diced
• 1 cup onion, diced
• 2 green peppers, cored, seeded, diced
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons mccormick salad supreme seasoning
• 1 cup dry orzo pasta
• 1 1/2 cups chicken broth

Recipe

• 1 in large frying pan with lid, add olive oil, bacon, chicken and all of the cut and diced vegetables.
• 2 sprinkle with garlic salt.
• 3 put the lid on and cook on low heat, uncover every 10 minutes and stir around with the spatula. you want the bacon to remain soft but cooked.
• 4 add the mccormick salad supreme seasoning.
• 5 heat the chicken broth in a large glass measuring cup in the microwave.
• 6 add pasta and broth.
• 7 stir. put the lid on.
• 8 cook on medium heat about five minutes.
• 9 stir and serve.
• 10 note: i use sysco chicken base & add water for my chicken broth each time a recipe calls for it. one small 16 oz. container will make 5 gallons of broth for very little cost.
• 11 the mccormick salad seasoning is made specifically for pasta salads and has great spices and dried cheeses in it.
• 12 i serve my high rise biscuits and breadsticks with this dish.