Avgolemono is a mixture of eggs and lemon used to thicken soups and sauces in Greece, and here it's used to make a tangy and creamy chicken soup.
Adding some of the lemon separately gives you more control over exactly how the recipe turns out, according to your own tastes.
Of course, I'm just kidding. Avgolemono wasn't a mythological beast at all. It's a very real mixture of eggs and lemon juice, used by real cooks in real kitchens throughout Greece to thicken and flavor broths and sauces. It also isn't just a Greek thing—these kinds of lemon-and-egg mixtures are common throughout the Mediterranean under a variety of names, possibly spread around the region by Sephardic Jews after they had been expelled from Spain in 1492 .
After talking to a few different native Greek friends, what became clear was that those varying ingredient ratios weren't a sign of an abundance of bad recipes, though some of them may have been bad, but instead a reflection of just how subjective the "right" amount of lemon and egg should be in any given recipe. Talk to even a few Greeks and you realize that how thick and lemony a dish should be is not at all a settled question.
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