Homemade Chicken and Dumplings

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http://urbanretrorecipes.com/grandma-miller-made-every-family-reunion/2/

Homemade Chicken and Dumplings – It’s Easy. Really.

Ingredients

3 cups cooked chicken
6-8 cups chicken broth
carrots - diced
onions - sliced
celery - diced
Potatoes?
Herbs

2 cups flour
2 Tbs. butter
½ tsp. baking powder
salt to taste (I just shake some in)
about a cup of milk, maybe a bit less

Directions

In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt.

Cut the butter into the dry ingredients with a fork or pastry blender.

Stir in the milk, mixing with a fork until the dough forms a ball.

Heavily flour a work surface. You’ll need a rolling pin and something to cut the dumplings with. I like to use a pizza cutter. I also like to use a small spatula to lift the dumplings off the cutting surface.

Roll the dough out thin with a heavily floured rolling pin.

Dip your cutter in flour and cut the dumplings in squares about 2″x 2″. It’s okay for them not to be exact. Just eye ball it.

Use the floured spatula to put them on a heavily floured plate.

Just keep flouring between the layers of dumplings.

To cook them, bring the broth to a boil.

Drop the dumplings in one at a time, stirring while you add them. The extra flour on them will help thicken the broth.

Cook them for about 15-20 minutes or until they not doughy tasting.

Add the cooked chicken to the pot and you’re done!

Quick Tip: If dumplings are going to be cooked later in the day, layer on a cookie sheet with wax paper between and lots of flour. You can also freeze them like this and then transfer them to a ziplock bag.