Easy recipe for Chicken 'n Dumplins?

[Keltik]

Does anybody have an easy -- and I mean EASY -- recipe for Chicken 'n Dumplins? So easy even a man can cook it?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Ok, you win the basic recipe contest.... but, did you actually see that chicken hatch? ;^)

[SAJ]

Hey, we all learn different things, m'friend. If your house never had C&D (as ours didn't), then you didn't learn how to make them until you decided to find out for yourself, as I did when I was 30, and as our friend Keltik is doing now.

All things in good time, right?

;^)

[junkman_106]

Yep! One of many. Chicken house was in back yard. In town, no less.

[Mountain Mary]

This looks more like a Liberal’s brain than anything else. Just kidding. I’m sure it’s delicious(now that I have spoiled your appetite)...

[junkman_106]

Forgot the /s tag. Just braggin’. Haven’t offed a chicken in years, but have hatched a few for the kids then gave them away to friends with acreage.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

So, with experience of cutting the head off of a chicken and watching it run around, you could be the head of the Treasury Dept...oh wait, have you lied on your tax returns? That is the major qualification....(south park reference in case you aren’t a fan...)

[junkman_106]

Can’t happen! I’m not dumb enough for that position!

[Two Kids' Dad]

A great scene in a great episode!

[Ditter]

Your recipe is excellent, Keltic would do well to try it when he/she is not in such a rush. I am going to try your dumpling recipe because mine has failed the last few times I have tried it. Mine is for drop dumplings not rolled dumplings. I have gotten so discouraged with my dumplings that I have started using Grand original canned biscuits (not the buttered ones).

[SwatTeam]

I make my C and D the same way except I tear or cut up flour tortillas and let them cook in the hot broth for about 10 minutes or so.
It depends if someone is hanging over my shoulder with a bowl and spoon and slobbering or not.
Must be Texas dumplings huh?

[GloriaJane]

I start out my chicken and dumplings pretty much like you but I made my dumplings a little different.

A little bit before the chicken is done I ladle off some of the broth and put it aside to cool. Then I pour my flour out on my table and make it into a volcano shape.

In the center of the volcano shape I break a couple of eggs, add my salt & pepper and pour in some of the cooled broth. Then I start out mixing from the center of the pile with a fork and end up needing the mixture. After that I roll it out and cut it into about 2 inch squares. Drop them into boiling broth and stir.

MMmmmmm Now I want to go fix me some chicken and dumplings!!

[BlessingsofLiberty]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[SAJ]

One poster's suggestion to cover the stockpot with a glass pie plate is a very good one. And, the poster is exactly correct: don't lift the lid while the dumplings are cooking.

Might I suggest using a bit more butter, or even Crisco, in your dumpling dough. If your dumplings are falling apart, then it **sounds** like the dough was very loose to start. Figure out a way (one idea above) to tighten up the dough, and I'll wager $20 to a cold beer your dumplings won't be falling apart. If all else fails, ask your local bakery -- they'll know for certain how to fix your dough!

Best wishes and FReegards!

[SAJ]

I like that technique very much! Thanks for the idea. Sort of a 'French Toast' dumpling, eh? Heh, heh, heh...

TWO eggs per cup of flour, though? Sounds like a lot of egg there.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Ha - yeah I should have said to keep an extra can of bisquits handy because we always seem to eat all the dumplings and have gravy/sauce left over.....

[SuziQ]

Other than opening a can of prepared Chicken and Dumplings, here's what I suggest. Use a quart of Swanson, or similar, Chicken Broth, heat in a pan with half a package of frozen mixed vegetables. When it comes to a boil, open a can of prepared biscuits, cut each one into four pieces, and drop them into the boiling liquid. Stir them all around, cause they'll float up on the top and become a big gooey glob, and check one in a few minutes to see if they're done. Don't add much salt or pepper until the end, when you can taste the mixture. Broth, unless you buy the no-salt or reduced sodium kind, tends to be VEY salty.

That's now my Mama used to make them, but my hubby doesn't like Chicken and Dumplings, so I've never done it, only watched her do it.;o)

[SuziQ]

Oops! Forgot to add that you need to put in some cooked chicken when you’re heating the broth! You can used canned chicken, or cut up some rotisserie chicken from your local supermarket’s deli section.

[barb-tex]

Drop dumplins, canned biskits, vegetables for goodness sakes?
Must be yankee recipes.
Anyway, dumplins are the important part.
2 cups flour
cut in 1/4 c Shortning (I use lard)
1 tsp baking Powder
1 tsp salt
1 egg
~1/2 c milk to make medium dough. turnout on floured board.
roll thin 1/8 inch or less. cut in 1 inch strips
This a recipe that multiply to make as large a pot as I need.
bring to boiling 2 pints of chicken stock per recipe, add at least a pint of boned chicken.
drop in boiling stock cook 20 min.
barbra ann

[SuziQ]

LOL! I hadn’t read your post, but mine was very similar, except that I didn’t even have him cooking the chicken! It’s all already prepared, just needs to be put in the pot, and mixed all together!

[SuziQ]

Just braggin’. Haven’t offed a chicken in years,

*snort* My dear departed Daddy in law didn't like chicken, because he was the designated chicken killer in the family when he was growing up.
M-I-L would cook it, and the kids ate it, but he didn't like it. ;o)