Chicken and Dumplings Recipe

Whenever somebody says dumplings, we all can feel that happiness in our hearts as they are the go-to comfort food for everybody in this world.

This rich Chicken and Dumplings recipe is the ultimate comfort food which is Fluffy, homemade dumplings in the most flavourful chicken soup.

Therefore, today let’s try our hands-on chicken and dumplings as this is a combination that can never go wrong.

Types of equipment required.

1. Mixing bowls
2. Kitchen set
3. Cookie scoop

Time required for preparation

• Time required for cooking
• Calories: 557 kcal

Ingredients:

• 1 onion (large) (chopped)
• 5 carrots (medium) (chopped)
• 6 garlic cloves (diced)
• Kosher salt (according to taste)
• 5 celery ribs (chopped)
• 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 pounds of chicken breast (skinless and boneless)
• 1/2 white wine
• Sugar
• Water (around 8 cups)
• Frozen peas (one pound)
• Parsley and thyme (chopped)
• Bay leaves (around 2)

Ingredients for the dumplings

1. Unsalted butter (4 tablespoons)
2. All-purpose flour (2 cups)
3. Kosher salt (according to taste)
4. Black pepper and thyme (according to taste)
5. Milk (3/4 cups)
6. Baking powder (one tablespoon)

Instructions:

1. Add all the vegetables to a buttered heavy-bottomed pot and stir them at intervals for about 10 minutes on the heat.
2. After the onions have turned translucent, add your garlic cloves and let them sit for about a minute in the pot itself.
3. Till this is happening, add your water as well as the white wine slowly to the vegetables.
4. Proceed to add your chicken as well as the sugar and bay leaves to be cooked on low heat for about 25 minutes until the chicken is cooked.
5. Till the time the soup is getting ready, let jump to our dumplings for which whisk the flour, baking powder with salt and pepper including thyme according to your taste.
6. Kneed it and keep it aside. Time to go back to our chicken which has to be removed once it is fully cooked to shred it and then add it back to the pot.
7. Use the cookie scoop to make your dumplings and add them one by one to the soup.
8. Cover the lid of the pot and let them cook on low heat for about 20 minutes.
9. Once done, add your salt and pepper to taste with your already chopped parsley and thyme.

It is the best feeling in the world to have this dumpling soup on a winter evening. So don’t think too much and get to cooking.