Quick Southern Chicken And Dumplings Recipe 55 Food

SOUTHERN CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• House Seasoning is wonderful to spice up any recipe so keep some in your pantry; Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months; Yield 1 1/2 cups.
• To start the chicken: Place the chicken, celery, onion, bay leaves, bouillon, and 1 tsp.
• House Seasoning in a large pot.
• Add 4 quarts of water and in water and bring to a simmer over medium heat.
• Simmer the chicken until it is tender and the thigh juices run clear, about 40 minutes.
• Remove the chicken from the pot and, when it is cool enough to handle, remove the skin and separate the meat from the bones.
• Return the chicken meat to the pot.
• Keep warm over low heat.
• To prepare the dumplings: Mix the flour with the salt and mound together in a mixing bowl.
• Beginning at the center of the mound, drizzle a small amount of ice water over the flour.
• Using your fingers, and moving from the center to the sides of the bowl, gradually incorporate about 3/4 cup of ice water.
• Knead the dough and form it into ball.
• Dust a good amount of flour onto a clean work surface.
• Roll out the dough (it will be firm), working from center to 1/8-inch thick.
• Let the dough relax for several minutes.
• Add the cream of celery soup to the pot with the chicken and simmer gently over medium-low heat.
• Cut the dough into 1-inch pieces.
• Pull a piece in half and drop the halves into the simmering soup.
• Repeat.
• Do not stir the chicken once the dumplings have been added.
• Gently move the pot in a circular motion so the dumplings become submerged and cook evenly.
• Cook until the dumplings float and are no longer doughy, 3 to 4 minutes.
• To serve, ladle chicken, gravy, and dumplings into warm bowls.
• Cook's Note: If the chicken stew is too thin it can be thickened before the dumplings are added.
• Simply mix together 2 tablespoons cornstarch and 1/4 cup of water then whisk this mixture into the stew.

SOUTHERN CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place the chicken into a large pot. Cover with water and bring to a boil. Add the onion, carrot and celery. Simmer slowly until tender, about 2 ½ to 3 hours. Remove the chicken and debone, then chop into small strands. Set aside. Save ½ cup of chicken broth and let cool. With an immersion blender, puree all the vegetables until they are liquid form. (If you don't have an immersion blender, you can strain and save the broth by separating the vegetables into a sieve or colander, then put the vegetables into a regular blender and puree. Put them and the broth back into the pot you cooked the chicken in.) Season the remaining broth with butter and salt and pepper to taste. Bring to a boil and cook the dumplings.
• Dumplings:.
• In a mixing bowl, cut the shortening into the flour and stir in the cooled broth, cover and let stand about 30 minutes. Roll out as thin as possible on a floured pastry cloth. Cut into strips or small squares. Drop layers of dumplings into the boiling broth and let the broth boil over each layer before adding another layer. Do not stir. Cover and cook for 12 minutes. Carefully add chicken which has been deboned and chopped.

SOUTHERN CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine chicken, salt and pepper in a large pot and cover with water. Cook until chicken is tender.
• Remove chicken from water.
• Remove bone and skin.
• Set chicken aside (while chicken is cooking, prepare dumplings.).
• Dumplings: In a large bowl, mix flour, salt, baking powder and shortening with a fork.
• Add egg and 1/2 cup milk; mix to form dough.
• Roll dough to 1/4-inch thickness on floured surface.
• Cut into four-inch strips with sharp knife.
• Drop dumplings into simmering chicken broth.
• Cover and simmer until dumplings are done.
• Add chicken to dumplings and 1 cup milk.
• Cook slowly for 10 minutes.

SOUTHERN STYLE CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a heavy pot with a lid place the chicken, onion, lemon, salt, pepper, water, bay leaf and thyme. Simmer all over low heat until tender, about 1 hour.
• Let chicken cool slightly in pot, then remove and take the meat off of the bones. Discard the bones and skin and skim excess fat off the broth if desired. Discard the onion, lemon and bay leaf. If desired, wash out pot well. Return broth and chicken pieces to the pot. Simmer over low heat while making the dumplings.
• To Make Dumplings: In a medium mixing bowl, cut shortening into the flour and salt. Stir in 1/4 cup water (more if needed) to form a soft dough. Roll out dough on a floured surface, with a rolling pin, until very thin. Cut into 1 inch wide strips using a pizza cutter or knife. Tear off 1 inch long pieces from these strips and drop into simmering broth and chicken meat. Simmer for 10 minutes with the lid off, then 10 minutes more with the lid on. Serve immediately.

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place chicken in a Dutch oven with onion, carrots, celery, garlic, bay leaves, thyme, parsley, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper.
• Add enough cold water to cover.
• Bring just to a boil over medium-high heat.
• Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer until tender, about 1 hour.
• Remove chicken, and let rest until cool enough to handle.
• Skin and bone chicken, leaving the meat in large chunks; set aside.
• Remove bay leaves from the broth, and discard.
• Skim as much fat as possible from the surface of the broth.
• Heat broth to a slow steady boil.
• In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt.
• Stir in milk, and beat until stiff.
• Drop batter 1 tablespoon at a time into the boiling broth.
• Cover, and cook for 10 minutes.
• Add reserved chicken, and cook until heated through, about 5 minutes.
• The dumplings should be puffed and the meat warmed through.
• Garnish with parsley, and serve immediately.

QUICK CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, combine the ½ cup milk, peas and carrots, chicken, mushrooms and soup. (Note about the soup: The recipe software interpreted "creamy mushroom soup" as cream of mushroom soup. Do not used condensed cream of mushroom soup; look at the premium brands for "creamy mushroom soup" which is a ready to eat product.)
• Heat to boiling, stirring frequently.
• While soup mixture is heating, stir biscuit mix and the 1/3 cup milk together until it forms a soft dough.
• After soup mixture comes to a boil, drop the dough onto (not into) the chicken mixture in 8 or 9 spoonfuls.
• Sprinkle dumplings with paprika.
• Lower heat to low and simmer gently without a cover for 10 minutes, then cover and cook 10 minutes more.
• Serve hot.