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Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings is a family favorite meal that is both comforting and succulent! This easy recipe is created from scratch including the tender dumplings and juicy chicken in an easy homemade broth.

This recipe starts with a whole chicken simmered to tender perfection with veggies and seasonings. Simple dumplings made with pantry ingredients are simmered in the goop until plump and tender. This is a family favorite that will be requested again and again!

Two white bowls of Chicken and Dumplings

Homemade Chicken and dumplings is skilful ol' comfort food at its best. While I love quick and easy Crock Pot Chicken and Dumplings, there is goose egg quite like a meal that is completely bootleg.

Making old fashioned chicken and dumplings from scratch is much easier than you'd think. About of the time is spent letting the broth simmer until it is flavorful and the craven is cooked to tender perfection.

Chicken and Dumplings in a silver pot

This recipe starts with chicken, onion and carrots simmered on the stove. When making the goop I cull a large onion and leave the skin on to add extra color and season to the broth. Feel gratis to add in your favorite herbs such as bay leaf, a compression of poultry seasoning and fresh parsley. Once the chicken is cooked, it is removed from the goop along with the vegetables.

Nosotros similar to consume the veggies as a side dish but feel free to chop the carrots & celery and add them back into your broth.

Lots of dough strips on a cutting board

If you've always wondered how to brand dumplings from scratch, yous'll dearest how easy they are! While some people like to make them with Bisquick, I notice they're just as easy to brand with ingredients you lot likely already have in your pantry!

Don't become besides caught up in making your dumplings perfect, it doesn't really matter how they're cut. The only matter you're going to want to be sure of is that your dough is rolled out to nigh 1/8" thick. This gives the dumplings the perfect consistency.

Chicken and Dumplings in a white bowl

At the end of cooking, nosotros like to thicken the broth with a little chip of cornstarch and water in one case the dumplings are cooked. Just mix equal amounts together and add a little bit at a time until the goop reaches the desired consistency. If you prefer a creamier goop, feel complimentary to add a lilliputian flake of milk or heavy cream one time the dumplings are cooked.

Sometime Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour xv minutes

Total Time 1 hr 45 minutes

Servings 8 servings

Former Fashioned Craven and Dumplings is a family favorite meal that is both comforting and succulent!

Broth

▢ one chicken cut into pieces
▢ one onion
▢ 3 big carrots cut into thirds
▢ 3 stalks celery cut into thirds
▢ 8 cups low sodium craven broth
▢ salt & pepper to taste
▢ bay leaf or a compression of poultry seasoning optional

Dumplings

▢ 1 ¾ cups flour plus actress for dusting
▢ ⅓ cup shortening
▢ ½ teaspoon baking powder
▢ ¾ cup milk
▢ ½ teaspoon salt

OTHER

▢ iv tablespoons cornstarch
▢ parsley for garnish

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Combine chicken, onion, carrots and celery in a large pot. Season to taste.
Add craven broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer covered 45-60 minutes or until craven is tender. While broth is simmering, prepare dumplings below.
Remove craven and vegetables from broth. Discard skin and bones and chop remaining chicken, set bated.
Gently add dumplings to goop. Simmer 15-20 minutes or until tender.
Stir chicken (and vegetables if desired) into broth and cook about ii-3 minutes or until heated through.

DUMPLINGS

Combine flour, baking powder, salt and shortening with a fork until shortening is mixed in.
Add milk a little at a fourth dimension and mix until combined (you may not demand all of information technology, you desire a soft but not glutinous dough).
Knead a few times on a floured surface until dough is shine.
Generously flour your surface and roll the dough out to ⅛″ thick. Cut dough into ane″ x 2″ strips. Flour generously to avoid sticking.
Cook in goop as directed above.

TO THICKEN Goop (OPTIONAL)

In a small basin combine 4 tablespoons cornstarch with 4 tablespoons water.
Add together to boiling broth a little bit at a fourth dimension stirring to achieve desired consistency.

Carrots and celery can be served on the side or chopped and added to the broth along with the chicken.

Nutrition information provided is an estimate and volition vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.

Calories: 464 , Carbohydrates: 32 g , Protein: 26 g , Fat: 25 g , Saturated Fat: 7 chiliad , Cholesterol: 73 mg , Sodium: 322 mg , Potassium: 599 mg , Fiber: 1 m , Sugar: 3 1000 , Vitamin A: 4060 IU , Vitamin C: iv.iv mg , Calcium: 77 mg , Iron: ii.8 mg

(Nutrition information provided is an estimate and will vary based on cooking methods and brands of ingredients used.)

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

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