Welcome to the realm of culinary delights, where flavors converge and aromas dance in harmony to create a symphony of taste. Today, we embark on a journey to discover the secrets behind the legendary "Marias Chicken and Dumplings," a dish that has captivated hearts and palates for generations. With its tender chicken, fluffy dumplings, and a broth that sings with savory notes, this classic comfort food promises to transport you to a realm of culinary bliss. As we unveil the secrets behind this beloved recipe, prepare to tantalize your taste buds and embark on a culinary adventure that will leave you craving more.
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ONE-POT CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
When you don't have time to make chicken pot pies, enter this every-bit-as-satisfying substitute: chicken and dumplings, ready in about 45 minutes.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Chicken
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a large saucepan, melt 3 tablespoons butter over medium-high. Add onion, celery, and carrots and cook until onion is translucent, about 4 minutes. Add 1/4 cup flour and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Gradually add broth, stirring constantly, then bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in chicken and green beans and season with salt and pepper.
- Make dumplings: Whisk together 1 cup flour, baking powder, 1 teaspoon coarse salt, and 2 tablespoons parsley. Cut in 2 tablespoons butter. Stir in milk. Drop heaping spoonfuls batter on top of chicken mixture. Cover and simmer until dumplings are cooked through, about 12 minutes. Serve topped with additional chopped parsley.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 273 g, Fat 12 g, Fiber 3 g, Protein 15 g, SaturatedFat 7 g
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 SIU MAI (CHICKEN DUMPLINGS)
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Appetizers
Yield Makes 24
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Make the filling: In a large bowl, combine chicken, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, scallions, cornstarch, white peppercorn oil, oyster sauce, ginger, Shao Hsing, sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt, pepper, and egg white. Stir to mix thoroughly. Transfer to a shallow dish, and refrigerate, uncovered, for 4 hours, or covered, overnight.
- Make the dumplings: Lightly oil a bamboo steamer basket, or line the bottom with a round metal steamer insert; set aside. Work with one wrapper at a time, and cover unused wrappers with a damp cloth. Place 1 1/2 tablespoons filling in center of each wrapper. Hold filling in place with the blade of a butter knife. Holding the dumpling in the other hand, gradually turn the knife and dumpling slowly in a clockwise direction so that the dumpling forms a basket shape.
- Remove knife, and pat filling with point of knife to smooth. Squeeze the dumpling slightly to adhere dough to filling, this will ensure that the dumpling and filling will remain intact during the steaming process. Tap the dumpling bottom lightly on work surface to flatten. Place into prepared steamer basket. Repeat with remaining filling and wrappers.
- Bring 3 inches of water to a boil in a wok. Place steamer basket over water. Cover, and steam until dumplings are cooked through, about 6 minutes. Turn off heat. Remove the steamer from the wok, and transfer to a platter. Serve dumplings directly from steamer with mustard dipping sauce on the side.
JULIA'S SIMPLE CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS
This is Chicken & Dumplings the easy and delicious way. Traditional, southern, no-frills, and wonderful. Forget all the extras and treat yourself to what this dish was truly meant to be, both taste and work-wise. This recipe is a traditional dish from my partner, Julia's, family. There is very little that you can do to hurt this recipe. The most important thing to remember is to stir often once you begin to add dumplings so that they neither stick nor burn. Enjoy!
Provided by wyrllwynd
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 1h25m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Place all listed ingredients into stock pot and add just enough water to cover chicken.
- Simmer for approximately 40 minutes or until chicken parts easily from bone.
- Reduce heat to low.
- Remove chicken from pot and allow to cool.
- Separate meat from bones, divide into bite-sized pieces, and set aside.
- Discard bones.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, water, salt and pepper for dumplings and mix well.
- Dough should be well-defined, barely sticky, and easy to handle by hand: If it is too sticky, add more flour, or if it is crumbling, add more water.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll with a rolling pin to 1/8" thickness.
- Return chicken stock to a simmer and add chicken.
- With a sharp knife, cut dumpling dough into stips approximately 1" x 3".
- Add strips to simmering stock, stirring as you add them to keep them from sticking to each other or to the pot.
- Continue to re-roll the dough as needed, cutting dumpling strips and adding them to the stock until all dough is used.
- When stock turns an opaque yellowish-white color and thickens, add milk and stir.
- Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Excess may be frozen in a tupperware container or a doubled ziplock-type container for up to a month.
- Feel free to add up to 2 cups of water for more stock or to even up to double the amount of dumplings to accomodate your needs or tastes.
MARIA'S CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
It's chicken-n-dumplings with carrots, potatoes, and pasta in a creamy soup. Perfect for cold winter days.
Provided by HELLION
Categories Noodle Soup
Time 1h
Yield 5
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Boil chicken in a large pot until completely cooked through and no longer pink inside, about 15 to 25 minutes.
- While chicken is cooking, wash and peel carrots and potatoes and cut into bite size pieces. When chicken is cooked, remove from water and place carrots and potatoes in water to boil. Stir in cream of chicken soup and cream of mushroom soup and simmer all together.
- Let chicken cool, then cut into cubes. When potatoes become soft/tender, add pasta and cubed chicken to pot. When pasta is tender (after 8 to 10 minutes), add biscuits/dumplings by pulling dough into chunks and dropping into the pot (Note: Each biscuit should equal 3 dumplings). Simmer all together for 10 to 15 minutes, or until biscuits are cooked and fluffy inside.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 783.7 calories, Carbohydrate 103 g, Cholesterol 60.8 mg, Fat 24.2 g, Fiber 6.1 g, Protein 38.2 g, SaturatedFat 6.3 g, Sodium 2013.1 mg, Sugar 12.1 g
MARIA'S CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
It's chicken-n-dumplings with carrots, potatoes, and pasta in a creamy soup. Perfect for cold winter days.
Provided by HELLION
Categories Noodle Soup
Time 1h
Yield 5
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Boil chicken in a large pot until completely cooked through and no longer pink inside, about 15 to 25 minutes.
- While chicken is cooking, wash and peel carrots and potatoes and cut into bite size pieces. When chicken is cooked, remove from water and place carrots and potatoes in water to boil. Stir in cream of chicken soup and cream of mushroom soup and simmer all together.
- Let chicken cool, then cut into cubes. When potatoes become soft/tender, add pasta and cubed chicken to pot. When pasta is tender (after 8 to 10 minutes), add biscuits/dumplings by pulling dough into chunks and dropping into the pot (Note: Each biscuit should equal 3 dumplings). Simmer all together for 10 to 15 minutes, or until biscuits are cooked and fluffy inside.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 783.7 calories, Carbohydrate 103 g, Cholesterol 60.8 mg, Fat 24.2 g, Fiber 6.1 g, Protein 38.2 g, SaturatedFat 6.3 g, Sodium 2013.1 mg, Sugar 12.1 g
MELISSA'S EASY CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
This is a very simple way to make chicken and dumplings. My mother gave me this recipe. It's great on a cold day.
Provided by MELISSAS KITCHEN
Categories Chicken
Time 35m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Put chicken and celery in a large pot and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Cook chicken thoroughly.
- Once chicken is done remove chicken from pot and let cool on a plate. Set aside. Do not throw away broth--it will be used later.
- Add cream of chicken soup, chicken broth, salt and pepper to pot; stir. Cook on medium-high heat.
- Slice chicken breasts like you would a turkey (thinly). It will come apart once it's added back to the pot. Add back to pot. Bring to boil.
- With a rolling pin, roll out each biscuit and cut into fourths. (For smaller dumplings, cut them smaller). I like mine medium size, so fourths work for me. Once you're done, it's time to add them to the pot.
- Just drop them in one at a time, make sure to stir often. They tend to stick if they aren't stirred. They will swell after they are first added, but they will go back down to normal size after a few minutes. Let them boil for 10 minutes, then simmer on medium-low for about 15 minutes; cover. Continue to stir often. Dumplings are done when the center of the dumpling is slightly darker than the outside.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 590.7, Fat 20.7, SaturatedFat 5.7, Cholesterol 98.8, Sodium 2423.1, Carbohydrate 56.5, Fiber 0.2, Sugar 0.9, Protein 42.6
Tips:
- Use a large pot or Dutch oven to make sure there is enough space for the chicken and dumplings to cook without overcrowding.
- Season the chicken generously with salt and pepper before browning. This will help to develop flavor throughout the dish.
- Be careful not to overcook the chicken. Once it is cooked through, remove it from the pot and set it aside.
- Make sure the dumplings are cooked through before serving. They should be light and fluffy, and not doughy.
- Serve the chicken and dumplings immediately, while they are hot and fresh.
Conclusion:
Maria's chicken and dumplings is a classic comfort food dish that is perfect for a cold winter night. It is easy to make and can be tailored to your own preferences. Whether you like your dumplings thick or thin, or your chicken cooked light or dark, this recipe is sure to please. So next time you are looking for a hearty and satisfying meal, give Maria's chicken and dumplings a try.
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