Recipe: Perfect Simple Chicken and Dumplings

Simple Chicken and Dumplings. Stir the cream of chicken soup, chicken broth. This creamy stovetop Easy Chicken and Dumplings recipe is made with canned biscuits! This Easy Chicken and Dumplings with biscuits is how I grew up eating this classic recipe - and I bet many of you did too!

Here's how it works: You'll season the chicken and brown it in And let's not forget the dumplings. "How to make dumplings" is half of the reason you ended up here in the first place, so we definitely don't want. You'll be rewarded with a savory, steamy chicken in broth with light, fluffy dumplings as the topping. Chicken and dumplings is a soup that consists of a chicken cooked in water, with the resulting chicken broth being used to cook the dumplings by boiling. You can have Simple Chicken and Dumplings using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Simple Chicken and Dumplings

1. It's 1 of rotisserie chicken de-boned and chopped into bits.
2. You need 1 bag of No Yolk dumplings.
3. It's 2 slice of onion, chopped.
4. It's 1 bunch of baby carrots, chopped.
5. It's 1 stick of celery, deveined and chopped or dried celery leaves.
6. It's 1 of a little milk.
7. You need 1 of a little all-purpose flour.
8. Prepare 1 pinch of salt to taste.
9. Prepare 1 of black pepper to taste.
10. It's 1 of spice/seasoning mix.
11. You need 2 of Herbox chicken bouillon.
12. Prepare 1 of water, I just add until it will cover everything adequately, with a bit extra for the pasta to absorb.

A dumpling—in this context—is a biscuit dough, which is a mixture of flour, shortening, and liquid (water, milk, buttermilk, or chicken stock). Chicken and dumplings are the ultimate comfort food, aren't they? When we were kids, my mother used to make chicken and dumplings for us by simply adding Bisquick biscuit dough to chicken stew. We would always fight over these dumplings.

Simple Chicken and Dumplings step by step

1. In large pot, toss in chicken, pour in a few cups of water along with the contents of chicken bouillon packets..
2. Add in onions, celery and carrots. Add salt, pepper, seasoning to taste..
3. Bring to slow boil. Stir regularly..
4. Once carrots are cooked (approximately 30 min) pour the bag of dumpling noodles in, add more water if necessary..
5. Turn temp down to low/ simmering and stir noodles to make sure none stick to the bottom..
6. Once noodles are cooked, mix a little milk and flour together. (I pour them in a well sealed jar and shake vigorously until there are no lumps) then pour into the pot. You can use a very small amount at first and build up if you want. The more flour/milk the thicker the broth..
7. Let cook a few more minutes to allow it to thicken a bit then serve..
8. If you like a lil more kick in your food, you can sprinkle a lil hot sauce in your bowl. I like a lil Louisiana Bat's Brew in it now and then. :-).

This version of chicken and dumplings starts with a couple of smart shortcuts to make it easy enough to pull off on a weeknight, without skimping on the rich, savory flavor and Many recipes for chicken and dumplings have you start by simmering a whole chicken or bone-in, skin-on cuts in water. We're still getting the last bit of that cold winter weather here on the east coast which means comfort food! I grew up on Chicken and dumplings and started. Cook whole chicken in large pot full of water until done. Remove chicken from pot and debone.