The classic combination of chicken noodle soup and dumplings is a comforting and flavorful dish that is perfect for a cold day or a sick day. This hearty soup is made with a flavorful broth simmered with tender chicken, vegetables, and fluffy dumplings and is a popular dish that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. Whether you prefer traditional dumplings made with flour and butter or a healthier alternative like wonton or matzo ball dumplings, there's a recipe out there to satisfy everyone's taste buds. Read on to discover the best recipe for chicken noodle soup and dumplings that will warm your heart and soul.
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CHICKEN SOUP WITH DUMPLINGS
Provided by Food Network Kitchen
Categories main-dish
Time 30m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Heat the vegetable oil in a large saucepan oil over medium-high. Add the ginger, garlic, scallions and celery and cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add the chicken broth and 2 cups water, bring to a simmer and cook until the vegetables are tender, about 5 minutes.
- Add the frozen dumplings or wontons, bok choy, chicken and soy sauce and simmer until warmed through, 3 to 5 minutes; season with salt. Divide the soup among 4 bowls, then drizzle with sesame oil and top with scallions.
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.
OLD-FASHIONED CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
This is an old family recipe developed by my grandmother, whose arthritic hands would not allow her to roll noodles. Each generation has made small changes to suit their families. A simple and wholesome chicken and dumpling soup.
Provided by Lana Walker
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Noodle Soup Recipes
Time 3h20m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Fill a large pot with water, and add whole chicken. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat. Simmer until tender, about 1 to 2 hours.
- Remove chicken from broth, and set aside to cool. Reserve broth. When cool enough to handle, remove meat from bones; cut into bite size pieces. Discard skin and bones.
- In a medium bowl, stir together flour and salt. Break one egg into flour, and stir with fork till stiff. Continue adding eggs one at a time until all are incorporated. The dough should be very stiff.
- Bring broth to a boil. Add bouillon cubes; stir until cubes have dissolved.
- Using a fork and knife, pick up dough on fork. Hold over boiling broth, and cut off small pieces into broth until all the dough has been used. Stir, cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Add chicken meat, and stir. Serve hot.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 693.7 calories, Carbohydrate 32.8 g, Cholesterol 294.7 mg, Fat 38.1 g, Fiber 1.1 g, Protein 51.2 g, SaturatedFat 10.9 g, Sodium 1362 mg, Sugar 0.4 g
YUMMY CHICKEN AND DUMPLING SOUP
Chicken and dumpling soup is a classic that every cook should have in their recipe box and this version is tried and true. My husband is not very fond of leftovers, but says he would eat this every day of the week if I let him. -Morgan Byers, Berkley, Michigan
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Lunch
Time 1h5m
Yield 4 servings (1-1/4 quarts).
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. In a large nonstick skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook and stir until no longer pink. Remove from heat., In a large saucepan, whisk flour and 1/2 cup broth until smooth. Stir in water and remaining broth. Add beans, onions, carrots and marjoram. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes. Add chicken; return to a simmer., Meanwhile, in a small bowl, mix biscuit mix, cornmeal and cheese. Stir in milk just until moistened. Drop batter in 12 portions on top of the simmering soup. Reduce heat to low; cover and cook 15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of dumpling comes out clean.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 353 calories, Fat 8g fat (2g saturated fat), Cholesterol 52mg cholesterol, Sodium 1111mg sodium, Carbohydrate 44g carbohydrate (10g sugars, Fiber 5g fiber), Protein 28g protein. Diabetic Exchanges
CHICKEN-VEGETABLE SOUP WITH DUMPLINGS
Mmm, dumplings. Even Mom couldn't make this heartwarming soup better-or easier!
Provided by By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Categories Entree
Time 35m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- In 3-quart saucepan, heat all ingredients except Bisquick mix and milk to boiling, stirring occasionally.
- In small bowl, stir Bisquick mix and milk with fork until soft dough forms. Drop dough by 18 teaspoonfuls onto boiling soup. If dumplings sink into soup, carefully bring them to top of broth using slotted spoon. Reduce heat to medium-low.
- Cook uncovered 10 minutes. Cover and cook 15 minutes longer.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 210, Carbohydrate 17 g, Cholesterol 40 mg, Fiber 2 g, Protein 20 g, SaturatedFat 2 g, ServingSize 1 Serving, Sodium 1030 mg, Sugar 3 g, TransFat 1/2 g
CHICKEN DUMPLING SOUP
A well rounded chicken soup with delicious chicken and herb dumplings.
Provided by SILVANUS
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Chicken Soup Recipes Chicken and Dumpling Recipes
Time 1h45m
Yield 16
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- In a blender or food processor, combine 3 cups cooked chicken, eggs, 3/4 cup chicken broth, 1 cup flour, parsley, 2 teaspoons salt, pepper and tarragon. Process until smooth.
- In a large pot, bring 4 cups chicken broth to a boil. Drop dumpling mixture by rounded spoonfuls into boiling broth. Simmer, uncovered, 5 to 8 minutes, until well formed and slightly browned. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain on paper towels. Reserve dumpling cooking liquid.
- In a large pot melt butter over medium heat. Cook onion, celery and garlic in butter until onion is translucent. Stir in 1/2 cup flour until fully incorporated. Pour in 2 quarts chicken broth, stirring constantly. Bring to a boil. Introduce 1 1/2 teaspoons salt and carrots. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes.
- Stir in dumplings, reserved liquid and 3 cups cooked chicken. Simmer 15 minutes more before serving.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 189.4 calories, Carbohydrate 12.6 g, Cholesterol 70.3 mg, Fat 7.6 g, Fiber 1.1 g, Protein 16.9 g, SaturatedFat 3.1 g, Sodium 587 mg, Sugar 1.7 g
CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP AND DUMPLINGS
The fluffiest, biggest soup dumplings you'll ever fall in love with floating in your favorite canned soup. This recipe has been passed down through my family for generations.
Provided by Kitcharen
Categories Low Protein
Time 15m
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Begin heating your soup combined with the water in a LARGE pot with a tight fitting lid.
- Combine your dry ingredients in a medium sized mixing bowl.
- Stir lightly to mix, being careful not to lose any over the side.
- Create a hollow in the middle of your dry ingredients.
- Add your milk to the hollow.
- Add your oil to the milk.
- Using a fork, mix the ingredients until a sticky dough is formed.
- Do not overmix.
- When your soup is boiling, quickly add spoonfuls of the dough until the entire bowlful is in the pot. Make sure to move quickly - the faster you get them in, the fluffier they'll be.
- Quickly cover the pot with the tight fitting lid.
- Reduce the heat to medium and cook for 10 minutes.
- NEVER lift the lid before 10 minutes has passed or you will have dense dumplings instead of light, fluffy ones.
- After 10 minutes, remove from heat and serve.
- Dumplings will be very hot.
CHICKEN AND DUMPLING SOUP
Steps:
- For the soup stock: Combine the chicken, peppercorns, bay leaves, garlic, thyme, carrot chunks, celery chunks, quartered onion, parsnip chunks, 3 sprigs dill and 3 sprigs parsley in a large pot. Add cold water to cover by 2 inches (about 5 quarts). Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Simmer, uncovered, until the chicken is very tender, for at least 1 1/2 hours (or up to 2 hours if you have the time. The longer the better!) Add more water, as needed, skimming off scum (there won't be much) and, if desired, some fat.
- Carefully strain the stock, discarding everything except for the chicken. (You should have 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 quarts of stock.) Set the chicken aside to cool briefly while you put together the rest of the soup. Return the strained stock to the pot and bring it to a simmer. Add the sliced carrot, sliced celery, chopped onion, sliced parsnip, chopped dill, chopped parsley and the salt. Bring to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the dumplings: In a small saucepan, bring the butter and 3/4 cup water to a boil. Remove from the heat and stir in the flour. Let cool for a few minutes so it's not so hot that it will cook the eggs, then whisk in the salt, sugar, nutmeg and the eggs, one at a time, until incorporated into a slightly lumpy thick batter. (It'll take a little work to whisk in the eggs.)
- Drop heaping teaspoons of the dumpling mixture into the simmering soup, then cover and cook until the vegetables are tender and the dumplings are cooked through; begin checking for doneness at 15 minutes.
- Pull the chicken meat off the bones and chop into bite-sized pieces. Season it with salt, then add it to the soup along with the ground black pepper. Taste and add more salt as needed. This is important: The amount of salt in a chicken soup can mean the difference between unappetizing chicken tea and the elixir of bubble love that it should be. So don't skip this step, and don't rush it, either. Taste your soup, and if it doesn't make you smile reflexively, add more salt, about a 1/2 teaspoon of it, and give it a few good stirs so it can dissolve. Taste and repeat, as needed, until it tastes good.
- Serve, garnishing with fresh parsley.
CHICKEN, VEGGIE, NOODLE, AND DUMPLING SOUP WITH FLAVOR
This looks like a difficult recipe but it really isn't, just a lot of notes. It's really easy I promise. I have been tinkering with chicken soup the last two winters and found this to work for me. It's still a work in progress but by far this has been the tastiest way of making it. If you want to add the noodles please only put in half of the amount or cook them separately from the soup to help minimize the noodles from soaking up all the tasty broth. As you can see from my photos, the noodles that were cooked in the soup soaked up the majority of the broth, but no one cared as it tasted just fine. Also, pick the veggies that you like. That is the beauty of this soup, you can put what ever veggies that you like in the pot. If it's a softer veggie that will cook up quickly then you'll most likely want to add that towards the end of the cooking time, rather than towards the end unless you don't mind it being too mushy.
Provided by ChrissyVas
Categories Clear Soup
Time 3h5m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Place chicken in 7 Quart pot fill with water, leaving about an inch from the top of the pot (don't want it to over flow while it cooks.).
- Add the ingredients from the Chicken and Seasoning Section immediately after you have done the above step. NOTE: I like to crush up the parsley flakes and oregano in my hand over the pot after I've measured it. You don't have to, it's just something that I did. As for the garlic clove, either use a garlic press or mince finely as it will not be removed from the soup. This is so that you will have flavorful chicken and will be the start of the tasty broth.
- Cook on a medium heat for at least an hour and a half to two hours, especially if frozen. I choose to use the chicken with skin and the one bone because it always seems to come out most tender and give the broth extra flavor. But if you use boneless skinless thighs or breasts that's entirely up to you, but I can't guarantee that it will turn out the same. At this time you want to prepare your carrots and slice them up so that you can just dump them in the pot in the next step to save you some time.
- When the chicken has been cooked through, using tongs carefully remove the chicken and set on a plate. Then fish out the bay leaves, it will be easier to this now rather than later when you have lots of other goodies in your pot. And dump in the sliced baby carrots now as they are more of a hard vegetable and will take probably the most time to cook.
- Using tongs and a knife set a piece of chicken on your cutting board and carefully remove the skin, bone, and any cartilage from the chicken. You want to do this while it's still hot as you're going to toss it back into the pot and don't want it to cool down too much.
- Chop into big chunks and put back in the soup pot, you don't want them to be too small or they will fall apart and shred. I like my soups hearty so I do big chunks, but make this soup as you desire.
- Wash your cutting board and knife, then wash (peel if you like), quarter and chop potatoes into bite size pieces not too thick and not too thin. Put into pot and do the same to your squash, you can do half of a yellow one and half of a green one if you want. Pick whatever veggies you want and keep in mind that if they're soft veggies like squash they will cook quickly and will need to be added to the end of the soup rather than at the beginning.
- If you choose to put pasta in I would do this immediately after the last veggie is tossed in to help it cook up, I would probably only put half a bag of the pasta in as it swells up and will steal a lot of the broth. Or you could cook it in another pot and add it to the soup when it is cooked. It's up to you. I cooked mine with my soup and it stole all of the broth not leaving me very much broth. It was still tasty though and no one cared that the broth was missing.
- If you chose to add the pasta, once you have added it to your soup or started it in a different pot I would recommend getting the dumpling mixture ready.
- I doubled my mom's dumpling recipe as there never seems to be enough to go around. It makes around 12 -15 dumplings. Feel free to scale back if that's too much. Simply take all of the ingredients for the dumplings and put in a bowl and mix throughly. You should have a tacky ball of dough. If it's too dry either add a splash of milk, or more of the broth from the soup.
- Gently drop golf ball size or slightly larger pieces of tacky dough into the soup to allow to cook. They cook for about 5 to 10 minutes before completely done. DO NOT cover with a lid while they are cooking or you'll have a very moist looking dumpling which for me was always harder to tell if it was cooked all the way or not. Better to leave uncovered. When the dumplings are cooked turn off the flame and serve with your favorite crackers.
- NOTE: I used Casarecce Pasta which is not recognized by this site. It's a partially rolled long pasta pieces. But use whatever pasta that you prefer for this type of soup or none at all if you wish.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 825.8, Fat 33.2, SaturatedFat 7.2, Cholesterol 99.2, Sodium 1632.9, Carbohydrate 98.3, Fiber 10.4, Sugar 8.9, Protein 33.6
MILLION DOLLAR CHICKEN CASSEROLE
Creamy and incredibly savory, it's a casserole that's hard to stop eating. The cottage cheese is the trick to getting such a creamy, melty texture. Using rotisserie chicken is a must for the recipe and helps keep it quick.
Provided by Amanda Stanfield
Categories Chicken Casserole
Time 1h5m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Stir together cream of chicken soup, cottage cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, Creole seasoning, onion powder, and 1/2 teaspoon of the garlic powder in a medium bowl until well blended and smooth. Fold in chicken, chopped onion, and parsley until evenly coated.
- Stir together crackers, melted butter, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder in a medium bowl.
- Spoon chicken mixture evenly into an 11x7-inch or 9-inch square baking dish. Sprinkle evenly with mozzarella then cracker mixture.
- Place on a foil-lined baking sheet and bake in the preheated oven until crackers are golden brown and edges are bubbly, about 40 minutes. Cool for 10 minutes before serving; garnish with scallions if desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 427.3 calories, Carbohydrate 14.9 g, Cholesterol 102.5 mg, Fat 25.1 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 33.8 g, SaturatedFat 11.4 g, Sodium 738.3 mg
Tips:
- For a richer flavor, use homemade chicken broth. If using store-bought broth, look for a low-sodium option.
- Add vegetables to the soup for extra nutrition and flavor. Some good options include carrots, celery, onions, and peas.
- Use a variety of herbs and spices to season the soup. Some good options include thyme, rosemary, sage, and pepper.
- For dumplings that are light and fluffy, be sure to use self-rising flour.
- Drop the dumplings into the soup when it is gently boiling. Do not overcrowd the pot, or the dumplings will not cook evenly.
- Cook the dumplings until they are cooked through. This will take about 10-12 minutes.
- Serve the soup hot, garnished with fresh herbs and a dollop of sour cream.
Conclusion:
Chicken noodle soup with dumplings is a classic comfort food that is perfect for a cold winter day. It is also a relatively easy dish to make, and it can be tailored to your own taste preferences. With a few simple tips, you can make a delicious and hearty chicken noodle soup with dumplings that your family and friends will love.
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