Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chicken and dumplings. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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This is a great recipe for Southern-style chicken and dumplings. My husband doesn't usually like chicken and dumplings, but he absolutely loved these and asked for seconds (which he never does with anything). For dumplings, mix biscuit mix and milk until a soft dough forms.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chicken and dumplings using 21 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken and Dumplings:
- Take Chicken
- Get 2 tbsp butter
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Take 1 whole medium chicken, cut into pieces
- Prepare to taste Salt
- Prepare to taste Ground black pepper
- Prepare 1/2 cup carrots, finely diced
- Prepare 1/2 cup celery, finely diced
- Get 1 large onion, finely diced
- Make ready 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
- Prepare 1/2 tsp ground thyme
- Get 1.5 L/6 cups chicken broth
- Prepare 1/2 half and half (see step 3 for substitute)
- Prepare 2 tbsp all-purpose flour/plain flour
- Make ready Dumplings
- Prepare 1 1/2 all-purpose flour/plain flour
- Take 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal/fine polenta
- Make ready 1 heaped tbsp baking powder
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 1/2 cups half and half (see step 3 for substitute)
- Prepare 2 tbsp minced parsley
Discard bay leaves and skim fat from soup. Remove skin and bones from chicken and discard. Cook, covered, on high until mixture reaches a simmer. Drop dumplings on top of simmering soup, a few at a time.
Steps to make Chicken and Dumplings:
- Melt the butter with the olive oil over a medium/high heat. Season the chicken with a little salt and pepper. Over 2 batches brown the chicken on all sides and transfer to a clean plant and set aside.
- Using the same pot add the carrots, onions and celery. Stir and fry for 3-4 minutes over a low/medium heat. Add in the turmeric and thyme, then pour in the broth. Stir and add the chicken back into the pot. Cover with a lid and simmer for around 20 minutes.
- In the meantime while the chicken is simmering prepare the dumpling batter. Sift together into a bowl the flour, cornmeal, salt and baking powder. Then add the half and half and gently stir together until combined. Set aside. (Substitute for half and half: Mix 1 tsp of melted butter per 1/4 cup of milk)
- Remove the chicken pieces from the pot and set aside on a plate. Using two forks remove the chicken from the bones and shred it. Remove most of the chicken skin aswell. Return the shredded chicken to the pot. Mix together the half and half and flour and then add it into the pot and stir to combine. Check seasoning, add more salt and pepper if needed.
- Using a tablespoon drop the dumpling batter into the pot one by one. Sprinkle with the parsley. Cover again with the lid and allow to simmer for another 15 minutes. Allow to rest for 10-15 minutes before serving.
Chicken and tender dumplings meet in Sunny's hearty, comforting main dish. Alton cooks Chicken and Dropped Dumplings just like his mom used to make. This chicken and dumplings soup is super easy to make thanks to Pillsbury™ biscuit dough, but you can make it even easier! The recipe calls for cooked chicken; instead of cooking the chicken yourself and taking the time to shred it, pick up some shredded rotisserie chicken from the grocery store so all the prep work is already done for you. Make soup: In a large Dutch oven over medium heat, heat oil.
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