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Dees Chicken & Dumplings

Here's how you make Dees Chicken & Dumplings
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  • Servings: 8
  • Prep: 30m
  • Cook: 3h
  • The following recipe serves 8 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 4 pounds whole chicken
  • 8 cups water
  • 2 carrots, chopped
  • 2 stalks celery, chopped
  • 1 green onion, chopped
  • 1 cup frozen peas
  • 1 chicken bouillon cube
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon chives, chopped (optional or 1 tablespoon parsley (optional)
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons oil
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Boil chicken with water covering chicken in soup pot with tight lid.

  • Step 2: Add carrots and celery and bullion cook until chicken is falling off bone, about 2 hours; take chicken out and debone.

  • Step 3: Chop chicken in bite size pieces.

  • Step 4: Add back to soup pot with onion, peas, salt and pepper. Add 2 more cups water. Bring back to boiling.

  • Step 5: In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, milk, salt and oil and drop by teaspoon in boiling chicken stock. for bigger dumplings use tablespoon , just kinda drop the dough in , dont move the dumplings around after you drop them or they will break apart and you will have gravy lol You can add 1 tablespoon parsley or finely chopped chives if you want.

  • Step 6: Cover pot with lid and cook about 20 minutes on a low simmer so it doesn't burn.

  • Step 7: Don't lift lid in the 20 minutes that dumplings are cooking cause the steam cooks the dumplings. they will rise to the top and steam , but when you drop them into the boiling liquid they will drop to the bottom and then rise .


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