Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Chicken and dumplings recipe


Here you go Stuce, It's so basic but always delish

I take a whole chicken, place it in the pot with water to really cover the chick and cook all day, until meat falls of the bone, then remove chick (carefully it falls apart with the slightest touch) and debone the chick. Take all the meat back into the pot, season with salt and pepper to taste, and mix in veggies (whatever I have on hand honest....sometimes canned...gasp). Now the dumplings. Well Mike loves the bisquick mix kind which is yummy, but sometimes I like the homemade kind, which here is the recipe. Pour 2 cups in a mixing bowl, leaving a hole in the middle. Add 1 egg and enough milk to form a doughy consistency. Sprinkle flour on cutting board, roll out dough, and cut into squares. Drop one square in at a time in to boiling soup allow dumpling to thicken the broth until creamy consistency. (If not making the homemade dumpling to thicken up the soup I'll use cornstarch, that's if I'm making the bisquick dumplings) There you go. Chicken and dumplings Melody style.

4 comments:

  1. Gosh all you girls are posting about food this morning and it is making me SO hungry!!! This looks delicious! I might have to make a pot this weekend!

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  2. OMG! I think you need your own spot on the Food Network!!!! The chicken and dumplings are making my mouth water; thank you sooooo much for posting this recipe - YUMMMMMM:)

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  3. A spot on the food network...a dream of mine. Thank you for such sweet comments.

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  4. You are very intuitive- we have the same recipe! what's funny is, I saw your recipe list and decided to make it the other night, only this time, put whatever vegtables were left in the drawer and cooked it in Chicken broth. And, I have heard the bisquick (sp?) dumplings are just as good, and I'd totally do them, if my mother hadn't made this my entire life growing up from scratch.

    I'll have to check out your other recipes now. As soon as I have a working camera, I have to show you the rolls. How do you get yours so dark?? Mine are really, REALLY light, and I'm wondering if I am doing something wrong. Advice always welcome!

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