Comfort food at its finest, chicken and dumplings is a classic dish that has been enjoyed by generations. This hearty and flavorful dish is the perfect meal for a cold night or a special occasion. Whether you are a seasoned cook or a beginner in the kitchen, this guide will provide you with all the information you need to make the best chicken and dumplings grandma style. From selecting the right ingredients to perfecting the cooking technique, we will walk you through each step of the process. So gather your family and friends, and get ready to indulge in a delicious and comforting meal that is sure to bring back fond memories.
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GRANDMA'S CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
This is one of my family's favorite recipes for chicken and dumplings, handed down to me from my grandmother. And the leftovers taste great, too!
Provided by bigred
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Chicken Soup Recipes Chicken and Dumpling Recipes
Time 4h5m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Mix flour and shortening together in a bowl until it resembles cornmeal.
- Slightly beat egg and milk together in a separate bowl. Add to flour mixture and stir to form a ball of dough. Place onto a floured surface; knead and roll as thin as possible using a floured rolling pin. Let dough stand for 2 hours.
- Place chicken into a large pot and add water to just cover. Bring to a boil over high heat and continue to boil until chicken is no longer pink in the center and meat falls off of the bone, about 1 hour. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh, near the bone, should read 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).
- Remove chicken from the pot; strain broth and return to the pot. Add 2 cups water and bouillon. Remove meat from bones and return to broth. Add celery, carrots, and onion. Bring to a boil; continue to boil for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cut dough into strips, approximately 1-inch wide. Tear strips and drop into boiling broth. Continue to boil for 10 minutes more. Season with salt and pepper and serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 480.9 calories, Carbohydrate 29.7 g, Cholesterol 97.4 mg, Fat 27.1 g, Fiber 2.3 g, Protein 28.2 g, SaturatedFat 7.3 g, Sodium 439.3 mg, Sugar 3.2 g
GRANDMA'S CHICKEN N DUMPLINGS
Wonderful old fashioned recipe that was passed down to me by my Grandmother. These dumplings were ALWAYS a treat at holiday time or for a wonderful Sunday dinner after church.
Provided by dlm2005sassy
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 40m
Yield 10 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Boil chicken in enough water to cover adding the bouillon cubes when water begins boiling until chicken is fully cooked.
- After chicken is done remove it from the broth and let cool.
- Strain chicken broth, add canned broth and bring back to a boil.
- Mix oil, flour and salt until crumbly, then add eggs and enough water until the dough is stiff enough to roll out.
- Roll out thin, cut into strips, (I use a pizza cutter for this) and drop into BOILING broth immediately.
- While dumplings are cooking, debone the chicken and add to dumplings just before dumplings are finished cooking.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 662.2, Fat 35, SaturatedFat 8.2, Cholesterol 134.9, Sodium 1318.2, Carbohydrate 48.8, Fiber 1.7, Sugar 1.1, Protein 34.8
GRANDMA ALMA'S CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
Provided by Cat Cora
Time 1h30m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 24
Steps:
- Take the skin from the chicken and put in a pan with 1/4 cup of water and render. Put the chicken in a pot and cover with 6 cups of water. Bring to a boil and cook for 30 minutes. Pull the chicken from the broth and let cool. When the skin has been rendered, strain and cool until the fat has solidified. Bring the broth that is left from cooking the chicken to a light boil and add the milk, oleo, pepper and salt. Whisk in the sifted flour until the broth has thickened. Dice the chicken and add to the white sauce and let simmer. Mix the baking powder, flour, chicken fat, milk and salt in a bowl and mix. Put out onto a floured surface and knead until completely blended. Roll out thin (1/2-inch) and cut into 1 to 2 inch squares. Add to the white sauce and chicken, do not stir until the dough is set (cooked), cover and let cook for 20 minutes before stirring. Check seasoning and serve.
- Combine flour, cornmeal, salt and pepper in a bowl. Drain the pickles. Heat the canola oil on medium high heat. Dip the pickles in buttermilk and coat with the flour/cornmeal mixture. Drop into the hot oil and fry until golden brown. Transfer to paper napkins to drain. Season with salt and serve.
- Yield: 2 to 4 servings as a side.
CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS, GRANDMA STYLE
You can't get much more comfort food-y than this. No more mushy or yucky dumplings--these are wonderful. Very easy to make, and very delicious to eat!
Provided by ciao4293
Categories Stew
Time 1h20m
Yield 5-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- For the chicken: Heat oil in a large Dutch oven or large covered skillet.
- Add the chicken and brown for 2 minutes on each side.
- Stir in onion and celery, sauté for a few minutes, and add 3 cups of the water, bay leaf, bouillon, salt and pepper.
- Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes, covered.
- Then remove the chicken and add the carrots, cover and simmer until carrots are tender, about 10 minutes.
- While carrots are cooking, remove the chicken from the bones.
- Whisk together the 1/3 cup of flour and the remaining 1/2 cup water until smooth.
- Add flour/water mixture and chicken meat back to the pan, cover and continue to simmer.
- For the dumplings: Combine flour, baking powder, salt and parsley in a large bowl.
- Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and add the milk, egg and oil.
- Stir quickly to make the batter.
- For each dumpling, spoon a rounded tbsp of batter into the simmering broth.
- Cover and simmer for another 13-15 minutes, but DO NOT STIR.
- Ladle servings into big bowls and eat up!
GRANDMA'S CREAMY CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
Steps:
- Put the chicken, cream of chicken soup, milk, water, celery, carrots, and chicken broth in a crock-pot.
- Cook on low, usually 4-6 hours, till the chicken falls apart.
- About 30-minutes before you are ready to eat, prepare the biscuits as the package indicates. Spoon drop the biscuits in the soup let them cook for usually 30 min-1 hour. The dumplings will look soggy at first. Once they firm up and look like dumplings, they are done.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 0 g, Fat 0 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 0 g, Sodium 0 g, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 0 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 0 g
GRANDMA'S SOUTHERN-STYLE CHICKEN N' DUMPLINGS RECIPE - (4.3/5)
Provided by peridot728
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Put the chicken and the veggies (if using) in a large stockpot. Cover completely with water. Bring to a quick boil, then continue cooking chicken for one hour. When done, remove chicken to large bowl to cool. Strain broth to remove leftover veggies or other particles. Return broth to stockpot. Once chicken is cool, remove skin, then cut chicken into bite sized pieces. (At this point I divide the chicken pieces in half, and freeze half for use in another meal). Add chicken pieces (approx. 2½ cups) back into chicken broth. Heat the chicken and broth back up to boiling. Add bouillon cubes, salt and pepper (to taste). While chicken is coming to a boil, make the dumplings. In a large bowl, using a pastry blender or two knives, cut the shortening and salt into the cup of flour, until shortening is the size of small peas. Add ½ cup HOT water and ½ cup, plus 2 Tablespoons of flour to the mixture. Stir and work the mixture until a soft dough ball forms (firm enough to roll out). Divide dough into 3 equal sized balls, then let the dough rest for 10 minutes. Generously flour a work surface. Roll each dough ball out (one at a time), sprinkling with flour (if necessary) to keep dough from sticking to work surface. Roll out to about the size of a large pie crust (roll out thin). Cut dough into strips about an inch wide using a pizza cutter or knife. Repeat process for remaining dough balls. Drop dumplings a couple at a time into hot boiling chicken/broth mixture until all have been added to pot; add butter, and continue cooking. Make a slurry by mixing ¼ cup water with 2 large Tablespoons flour. Stir well to combine, then add to soup pot, and stir well. (this helps to thicken broth a bit). Cook an additional 10 minutes on high to fully cook dumplings. Taste test broth, and add additional salt and pepper, if desired. Ladle hot soup into bowls, serve, and enjoy (especially with crusty french bread on the side!) Notes If you are pressed for time, you can always start with store bought chicken broth (cook the chicken in water/drain, THEN use broth in pot), and can also use a pre-cooked rotisserie chicken to get the chicken from, BUT I prefer to make it the way I have posted it, as it is far less expensive... but, hey... whatever works, right?
JUST LIKE GRANDMA'S CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
Steps:
- In a pot bring water, bouillon cubes, and chicken meat to a boil.
- Flatten biscuits, coat with flour and cut in quarters. Drop biscuit pieces into pot.
- Cook until done (approx. 10 min) gradually adding flour until consistency of broth is to your liking.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 0 g, Fat 0 g, SaturatedFat 0 g, TransFat 0 g, Cholesterol 0 g, Sodium 0 g, Carbohydrate 0 g, Fiber 0 g, Sugar 0 g, Protein 0 g
MOMMA'S BEST CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
There's a lot of love in those dumplings! This is comfort food at its best and so worth the time and effort. I love the ohhs, awws, and OMGs, smiles, and sighs of total satisfaction that come with this bowl of heaven.
Provided by MA McBridges
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Stews Chicken
Time 2h33m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Melt butter in a stock pot over medium-high heat. Add celery, carrot, onion, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, salt, pepper, and poultry seasoning; cook and stir until flavors combine, about 5 minutes. Push vegetable mixture to the sides and add chicken; cook until browned, 3 to 5 minutes per side.
- Pour enough water over the chicken to cover by 3 inches; bring to a boil. Stir, scraping the browned bits off of the bottom of the pot. Reduce heat; simmer until chicken is tender, about 1 hour. Transfer chicken and carrots to a serving plate with a large slotted spoon; let cool.
- Ladle 1/4 cup cooking liquid into a bowl; cool slightly, about 5 minutes. Mix in 2 tablespoons flour. Stir back into the pot.
- Place 2 cups flour in a large bowl; cut in shortening with 2 knives until mixture forms pea-sized bits. Mix in chilled chicken broth until dough is combined.
- Turn dough out onto a floured work surface. Knead 5 to 6 times; pat down to 1-inch thickness. Sprinkle lightly with flour; roll out to about 1/8-inch thickness. Cut dough into squares with a sharp knife.
- Drop squares, in batches, into simmering cooking liquid, moving squares to the side with each addition. Partially cover pot; simmer until dumplings are firm, about 12 minutes. Separate any dumplings that stick together. Remove from heat; keep covered.
- Bone chicken; cut into bite-sized pieces and return to the pot. Chop carrot; return to the pot. Cool chicken and dumplings, about 30 minutes, before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 405.4 calories, Carbohydrate 28.4 g, Cholesterol 83 mg, Fat 19.3 g, Fiber 1.7 g, Protein 27.9 g, SaturatedFat 7.2 g, Sodium 718.1 mg, Sugar 1.2 g
GRANDMA'S CHICKEN 'N' DUMPLING SOUP
I've enjoyed making this rich homemade chicken dumpling soup recipe for over 40 years. Every time I serve this type of soup, I remember my southern grandma, who was very special to me and was known as an outstanding cook. -Paulette Balda, Prophetstown, Illinois
Provided by Taste of Home
Time 3h5m
Yield 12 servings (3 quarts).
Number Of Ingredients 24
Steps:
- Place the chicken, water, bouillon, peppercorns and cloves in a stockpot. Cover and bring to a boil; skim foam. Reduce heat; cover and simmer 45-60 minutes or until chicken is tender. Strain broth; return to stockpot. , Remove chicken and set aside until cool enough to handle. Remove meat from bones; discard bones and skin and cut chicken into chunks. Cool broth and skim off fat. , Return chicken to stockpot with soups, vegetables and seasonings; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 1 hour. Uncover; increase heat to a gentle boil. Discard bay leaf., For dumplings, combine dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Stir in egg, butter and enough milk to make a moist stiff batter. Drop by teaspoonfuls into soup. Cover and cook without lifting the lid for 18-20 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 333 calories, Fat 14g fat (5g saturated fat), Cholesterol 79mg cholesterol, Sodium 1447mg sodium, Carbohydrate 28g carbohydrate (4g sugars, Fiber 3g fiber), Protein 22g protein.
Tips:
- Use a large pot or Dutch oven to make the chicken and dumplings. This will give the dumplings plenty of room to cook and prevent them from sticking together.
- Bring the broth to a boil before adding the dumplings. This will help the dumplings cook evenly.
- Drop the dumplings into the boiling broth one at a time. This will help prevent them from sticking together.
- Simmer the chicken and dumplings for 10-15 minutes, or until the dumplings are cooked through. The dumplings are done when they float to the top of the broth.
- Serve the chicken and dumplings immediately, with a side of vegetables or salad.
Conclusion:
Chicken and dumplings is a classic comfort food that is perfect for a cold winter day. It is easy to make and can be tailored to your own taste by adding different vegetables or herbs. Whether you are a beginner cook or a seasoned pro, this recipe is sure to be a hit.
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