Name: Chicken and Dumplings Soup Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 2 h
Yield: 5
Ingredients: 1 small chicken; water; salt; 1 cup chicken broth; 2 cups all-purpose flour; 3 tbsp butter shortening; ½ cup buttermilk

How To Make Chicken and Dumplings

An all-American classic, this chicken and dumplings recipe is a comforting soup that you can easily recreate at home with the simplest of ingredients.

Preparation: 20 minutes

Cooking: 2 hours

Total: 2 hours 20 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

1smallchicken
water
salt
1cupchicken broth
2cupsall-purpose flour
3tbspbutter shortening
½cupbuttermilk

Instructions

Boil chicken in a pot, adding salt to taste. When tender, pull chicken from the bone and return to the pot, adding broth.
In a bowl, combine shortening and flour, mix together with a pastry cutter, then add buttermilk to form a doughy consistency (similar to how you would make biscuits). Sprinkle flour on cutting board.
Pinch off part of the dough and roll into a thin sheet and cut into squares. Drop one square at a time into broth. Continue this until all of the dough is used. Add salt and pepper to taste and simmer until tender.
Allow the dumplings to thicken the broth for 2 hours until it is a creamy consistency.