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.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 1smallchicken
- water
- salt
- 1cupchicken broth
- 2cupsall-purpose flour
- 3tbspbutter shortening
- ½cupbuttermilk
Instructions
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Boil chicken in a pot, adding salt to taste. When tender, pull chicken from the bone and return to the pot, adding broth.
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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.
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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.
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Allow the dumplings to thicken the broth for 2 hours until it is a creamy consistency.
Nutrition
- Calories: 706.97kcal
- Fat: 39.08g
- Saturated Fat: 10.90g
- Trans Fat: 1.20g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 16.03g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 8.93g
- Carbohydrates: 41.02g
- Fiber: 1.35g
- Sugar: 2.07g
- Protein: 44.39g
- Cholesterol: 152.42mg
- Sodium: 767.83mg
- Calcium: 59.75mg
- Potassium: 519.00mg
- Iron: 4.24mg
- Vitamin A: 85.91µg
- Vitamin C: 3.54mg
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