Old Fashioned Chicken Dumplings Recipes

OLD FASHIONED CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine chicken, onion, carrots and celery in a large pot. Season to taste.
• Add chicken broth. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer covered 45-60 minutes or until chicken is tender. While broth is simmering, prepare dumplings below.
• Remove chicken and vegetables from broth. Discard skin and bones and chop remaining chicken, set aside.
• Gently add dumplings to broth. Simmer 15-20 minutes or until tender.
• Stir chicken (and vegetables if desired) into broth and cook about 2-3 minutes or until heated through.

OLD FASHIONED CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Set oven to 350°F.
• Sprinkle half the creole seasoning on top and bottom of chicken breasts. Then lay chicken breasts skin down into an 8x by 8x baking dish. Cover with tin foil and bake for an hour.
• Chop up your onion, celery, red and green bell peppers and your garlic.
• In a large soup pot or dutch oven add your olive oil. Turn heat to hight and when it starts to get hot add your veggies. Sweat them for at least 3 minutes before adding the rest of the creole seasoning, the chicken stock, bay leaf, black pepper and thyme. Bring to a boil and then turn to Med-Low.
• When the hour is up take the chicken out of the oven and let rest for 5-10 minutes. Once rested and cooled you'll want to take the chicken off the bone and add meat to the pot of simmering soup. Discard all skin and bones but add the juices at the bottom of your baking dish to your pot. Add green beans. Let simmer about 10 minutes.
• In a mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, parsley, pepper, salt, eggs and water until it looks like a thick paste. You may need to add another teaspoon or two of water depending on the size of your eggs.
• Turn heat back up to Med-High until it's brought to a heavy boil. Using two teaspoons spoon the dumpling mixture teaspoon by teaspoon into the soup. Once all the dumplings have bounced back up to the surface you know they are done. Turn heat back down to low and let simmer for about 5 minutes before serving.

THE BEST CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a shallow bowl, mix 1/2 cup flour, salt and pepper. Add chicken, 1 piece at a time, and toss to coat; shake off excess. In a 6-qt. stockpot, heat oil over medium-high heat. Brown chicken in batches on all sides; remove from pan., Add onion, carrots and celery to same pan; cook and stir 6-8 minutes or until onion is tender. Add garlic; cook and stir 1 minute longer. Stir in 1/4 cup flour until blended. Gradually add stock, stirring constantly. Stir in wine, sugar, bay leaves and peppercorns. Return chicken to pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 20-25 minutes or until chicken juices run clear., For dumplings, in a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk milk and melted butter until blended. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened (do not overmix). Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet; set aside., Remove chicken from stockpot; cool slightly. Discard bay leaves and skim fat from soup. Remove skin and bones from chicken and discard. Using 2 forks, coarsely shred meat into 1- to 1-1/2-in. pieces; return to soup. Cook, covered, on high until mixture reaches a simmer., Drop dumplings on top of simmering soup, a few at a time. Reduce heat to low; cook, covered, 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of dumplings comes out clean (do not lift cover while simmering). Gently stir in cream, parsley and thyme. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste.

OLD-FASHIONED CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Fill a large pot with water, and add whole chicken. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat. Simmer until tender, about 1 to 2 hours.
• Remove chicken from broth, and set aside to cool. Reserve broth. When cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones; cut into bite size pieces. Discard skin and bones.
• In a medium bowl, stir together flour and salt. Break one egg into flour, and stir with fork till stiff. Continue adding eggs one at a time until all are incorporated. The dough should be very stiff.
• Bring broth to a boil. Add bouillon cubes; stir until cubes have dissolved.
• Using a fork and knife, pick up dough on fork. Hold over boiling broth, and cut off small pieces into broth until all the dough has been used. Stir, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add chicken meat, and stir. Serve hot.

OLD FASHIONED HOMEMADE CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• 1. CHICKEN AND BROTH: Place chicken breast or whole chicken with skin in a Dutch oven and cover with water.
• 2. Add a stick of butter and chicken bouillon. Cook over medium heat until chicken is tender, about 45 minutes for chicken breasts or 1 hr 15 minutes for the 3 lb chicken. Remove chicken from the broth and let chicken cool. Do not get rid of the broth. Remove skin and bones and discard. Shred chicken or chop into bite-size pieces. I don't put mine back into the broth until after the dumplings have cooked.
• 3. FOR DUMPLINGS: In a small mixing bowl, add eggs to the melted butter. Whisk.
• 4. Take half of a shell and add milk to it six times... pour into the egg mixture.
• 5. Add in salt and pepper.
• 6. Add 3 cups of flour; mixing in the flour a little at a time.
• 7. You want the dough to be rather sticky.
• 8. Add a couple of drops of yellow food coloring to give it a rich looking blend.
• 9. Heap about 2 cups of flour onto a wooden board or counter.
• 10. Using a tablespoon, add about a cup of the mixture to the center of the flour.
• 11. Start incorporating the flour and the dough until you can roll it out and it doesn't stick.
• 12. Roll very thin.
• 13. Using a pizza cutter, cut strips of the dough.
• 14. Add to the broth. Make sure it is boiling rapidly and that you have plenty of broth to keep your dumplings from scorching.
• 15. Turn down to low while you make the next batch. It's easier to roll out using small batches than trying to roll it all out at one time.
• 16. After you have added the last dumpling, add the chicken back to the Dutch oven and stir very gently.
• 17. Remove from heat and place a lid on the pot.
• 18. Let sit for 10 minutes or so before serving.

OLD FASHIONED CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS (MADE EASY)

Steps:

• NOTE: IF USING SALTED BUTTER, USE TWO 14.5 OUNCE CANS CHICKEN BROTH PLUS TWO CUPS WATER. (STEP ONE): Chop deboned skinless chicken into bite-sized pieces; set aside.
• MELT 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add 1/2 cup all-purpose flour and cook until bubbly and light golden, stirring often for 2 minutes. Stir in the broth and seasonings. Bring mixture to boiling then reduce heat to medium. Add chunked or diced chicken; stir.
• COMBINE the dumpling dough ingredients, stirring only until soft dough forms (do not overmix). Drop dough quickly by teaspoons in a single layer over surface of bubbling gravy on one half of large saucepan (do not roll or press dough, or submerge beneath the gravy). Simmer mixture UNCOVERED for 10 minutes.
• GARNISH tops of dumplings with parsley or chives.
• COVER then reduce heat to medium-low.
• SIMMER covered for 10 additional minutes; UNCOVER and remove from heat.
• LIFT out dumplings individually using a small slotted spoon, placing them onto a plate, leaving dumplings garnished side-up.
• STIR chicken and gravy using a wooden spoon (gently scraping bottom of saucepan while stirring).
• LADLE the chicken/gravy mixture into bowls, then arrange dumplings over the top.
• SERVE and enjoy.