The BEST Homemade Chicken & Dumplings Recipe | Sights & Sounds in a Country Kitchen

The BEST Homemade Chicken & Dumplings Recipe | Sights & Sounds in a Country Kitchen

Chicken and Dumplings recipe
Ingredients:
SOUP
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 lb boneless, skinless chicken breast, cubed (NOTE: I use more chicken.)
1 cup diced yellow onion
1 cup sliced carrot
3 cloves garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon salt
5 tablespoons unsalted butter
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
6 cups chicken broth
½ cup heavy cream
½ teaspoon dried thyme
2 bay leaves
1 ½ cups frozen peas
4 tablespoons fresh parsley, minced
DUMPLINGS
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon pepper
1 ⅓ cups heavy cream

In a 6-quart Dutch oven, heat the vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook until browned on both sides. Remove from the pot and set aside.
Add carrot and onion and cook until just tender, about 3 minutes.
Add the garlic and stir for another minute, until fragrant.
Reduce the heat to medium-low and add the butter and flour, stirring constantly for 3 minutes to prevent lumps from forming.
Add the chicken and any accumulated juices back to the pot and stir to coat in the roux.
Add the chicken broth, cream, thyme, and bay leaves and bring to a simmer. Once soup is at a simmer, add the frozen peas, cover, and cook for 15 minutes.
Make the dumplings: In a large bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, pepper, and cream. Stir until mixture comes together into single mass of dough.
Using a large spoon or ice cream scoop, form the dough into small round balls about 1 inch (2 ½ cm) in diameter (the dough should yield 14-16 dumplings).
Place the dough balls in the simmering soup (making sure they don’t touch), add the parsley, and cover. Let the soup simmer for 15 minutes, or until the dumplings are cooked through.

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Little so as soon as that heats up we’ll put the chicken in I’m going to grab an onion and some Carrots you got It huh there’s your spoon Samson what oh the table clo oh no I don’t think it’s yogurt proof he’s talking about my tablecloth if you drop some we can wash it it’s okay the yeah yeah I had one just like it okay I’m going to put a little bit of butter

In the pot now and we’ll go ahead and put in the onions that I already have sliced we’ll chop the rest of it up and then get some carrots in here now for the carrots I’m just going to do a rough chop we like for them to be still you

Know bigger not little bitties is this a towel yeah that’s a towel I’m going to put a few more carrots and then we’re going to mince up three cloves of garlic carrots and onions will cook for about 3 minutes then we’ll add the garlic let it cook for another

Minute if you are having a snowy day these chicken and dumplings are the perfect supper or any kind of soup of course or chili now we’re going to put in 5 tablespoons of butter we’ll put a teaspoon of salt and 6 tbspoon of allpurpose Flour we’re going to add the chicken back In We’re going to add half a teaspoon of ground Thyme and half a cup of heavy cream okay now we’ll bring this to a simmer when it starts to simmer we’re going to add a cup and a half of Frozen sweet peas then we’ll cover it and let

It cook for 15 minutes while it’s cooking we’ll make the dumpling dough okay before I make the dumpling dough I’m going to wash these dishes up real quick we’re just about simmering over here I’m going to go ahead and put in these sweet Peas you can leave the sweet peas out if you hate them I know some people hate them just like the chicken pot pie I could do without the sweet peas but Titus and the kids love them so we add them in okay got the peas in there we’ll

Bring that back up to a simmer we’re simmering over here so I’m going to cover that for the dumplings we need two cups of all purpose flour we like a lot of dumpling so I’m going to make a half more than the recipe called for so I’m

Going to do three cups we need a tablespoon of baking powder but I’m going to put 1 and 1/2 since we’re doing a little bit more almost a teaspoon of salt I’ll have the original recipe down below for y’all a little bit of pepper and now now some heavy Cream so that’s it for the dough whenever it’s been about 15 minutes on The Soup part over here we’ll just scoop out some little dumplings with our cookie scoop drop them in then we cover it and let those cook for about 15 minutes let them simmer on low for about

15 minutes when you’re dropping in the dumplings you don’t want them to touch so I just drop them you know far away from each other then I’ll give it a little stir that way those go down to the bottom a little bit they won’t go

All the way to the bottom but they’ll go down some then I’ll put some more on top but if they touch they’re all going to stick together and you’ll have a chicken and dumpling pot pie looking thing which would still taste good you’ll just have

One big thing of dough on top and you can do these bigger if you want bigger dumplings we just we like them about this size I have had the big dough thing on top happen before it’s fine you just cut it apart and do it that way

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