CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS – The Southern Woman Cooks

This old school Hen and Dumplings recipe is an all-time favourite. It’s Southern consolation meals at its finest. This dish is made by making ready a easy rooster soup and including home made flat or drop dumplings.

In the event you love consolation meals dishes like this one, strive our scrumptious Crock Pot Chicken and Gravy or Chicken and Noodles.

❤️WHY WE LOVE THIS DISH

This dish is made with easy components and may be very straightforward to place collectively.  Hen and dumplings are very fashionable within the South and are sometimes served for a Sunday dinner. It’s unimaginable consolation meals. Many individuals are intimidated by home made dumplings, however they’re truly very straightforward to arrange.

❓WHAT ARE DUMPLINGS?

A dumpling is mainly cooked dough. Two fundamental home made dumplings are utilized in rooster and dumplings:

🍴KEY INGREDIENTS

For the Broth:

Hen: you may boil a rooster or rooster breasts/thighs for this recipe. You may as well use leftover rooster, roasted rooster, and even turkey.

Cream of rooster broth: that is the place you’ll get your taste. 

Hen Broth: liquid wanted for the broth

For the Dumplings:

Self Rising Flour–you will need to use self-rising flour because it already has the baking powder and salt included.

Shortening–I exploit Crisco and this provides an exquisite texture and taste to your dumplings.

🍽️HOW TO MAKE

First, you’ll want to determine which sort of dumplings you propose to make, flat or drop. We are going to embrace each methods under.

PREPARATIONS

In case you are boiling a rooster or rooster breast/thighs, go forward and prepare dinner your rooster. As soon as cooled, cube or chop your rooster for the broth.

🥄HOW TO MAKE BROTH

Place the rooster and all of the broth components in a soup pot and convey to a boil. Your rooster is already cooked, so that you wish to boil it lengthy sufficient to melt your celery. It shouldn’t take lengthy. Then cowl the pot with a lid.

🥣HOW TO MAKE FLAT DUMPLINGS

Pour 2 cups of self-rising flour into a big bowl. Minimize in 1/4 cup shortening with a pastry blender or fork. As soon as your dough resembles coarse crumbs, add 3/4 cup boiling water somewhat at a time till you may form the combination right into a ball. Roll the dough out to about 1/8 inch of thickness on a floured board or floor. Minimize into lengthy strips, after which minimize the strips into squares.

Take away the lid on the pot and add a number of squares at a time to the boiling broth changing the lid every time for about 30 seconds till you will have added all of the dumplings. As soon as all of the dumplings are added, decrease the warmth to simmer for about 20 minutes, and add salt and pepper to style.

💕HOW TO MAKE DROP DUMPLINGS

In order for you drop dumplings, don’t roll the dough out however pinch off items and drop them into the broth similar to you dropped the flat dumplings. Attempt to make every pinch uniform so your dumplings will prepare dinner by means of concurrently.

⭐TIP

Be sure to have the lid on the pot. I do know many individuals have points with their dumplings not being cooked by means of. The lid will include the warmth and make sure that the dumplings prepare dinner evenly. To test in case your dumplings are cooked, take one out and minimize it open. Additionally, stirring your dumplings will trigger them to collapse. Use a picket spoon to push them below the broth gently; don’t stir.

WHAT TO SERVE WITH

I might extremely advocate including our fried hoecakes and green beans and potatoes.

RECIPE VARIATIONS

❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

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HOW TO STORE LEFTOVERS

Hen and dumplings are finest served instantly. Nevertheless, this recipe will preserve within the fridge for as much as 4 days in an air-tight container. You’ll be able to reheat this dish on the range. Gently stir over medium warmth to interrupt up the soup. Chances are you’ll want so as to add a little bit of rooster broth to it. If you wish to use your microwave, heat it up in 20-30 second bursts till warmed by means of. After all, the dumplings will change a bit when rewarmed as a result of they may have soaked up the soup. Their texture will likely be completely different, however their taste would be the identical!

FREEZING LEFTOVERS

You’ll be able to freeze them, however once more the feel of this dish will change. The flavour will stay the identical. They need to preserve frozen for as much as 3 months. 

Straightforward Hen and Dumplings

Your loved ones will love these Straightforward Hen and Dumplings

Course Foremost Course

Delicacies American

Hen/Broth

• 4 cups chopped rooster or turkey cooked
• 1 cup chopped celery
• one 10.5 ounce can of cream of rooster soup I exploit Campbell’s soup and broth
• two 10.5 ounce cans of rooster broth
• 3 of the ten.5 ounce cans stuffed with water

Dumpling Elements

• 2 cups Self-rising flour
• 1/4 cup shortening

Dumpling Directions

• Pour 2 cups self-rising flour into a big bowl, minimize in 1/4 cup shortening with a pastry blender or fork, add 3/4 cup boiling water somewhat at a time till you may form the combination right into a ball. Roll out to about 1/8 inch of thickness on a floured board. Minimize into strips, then squares

• Take away lid on pot and add a number of squares at a time to the boiling broth changing lid every time for about 30 seconds till you will have added all of the dumplings. As soon as all of the dumplings are added decrease warmth to simmer for about 20 minutes. Add salt and pepper to style.

For Drop Dumplings

• In order for you drop dumplings, simply don’t roll the dough out however pinch off items and drop them into the broth similar to you dropped the flat dumplings. Attempt to make every pinch uniform so your dumplings will prepare dinner by means of concurrently.

Key phrase Hen and Dumplings, Straightforward

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