Chicken and orzo

Orzo confuses me. It looks like rice and acts like pasta. I made it as if it were rice, with chicken and peas and carrots, and at some point while the pot was going I thought this wants to be a soup and added more broth than I normally would. Then I stopped, because a soup is a different dinner, and this one was done when the orzo got toothsome. Parmesan in the middle like a little hat. I ate two bowls.

A shallow white bowl of orzo pasta with diced chicken, bright green peas, bits of carrot, and a mound of grated parmesan in the center.