Regular Dumplings
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1 1/2 cups flour
1 Tablespoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons shortening(butter/margarine or crisco
3/4 to 1 cup of milk
Mix dry ingredients and cut in shortening. Add enough milk to make a soft wet dough. Drop by tablespoon on to the top of stew and cover and simmer on low for about 15 minutes.
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Southern Style Dumplings
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2 cups flour
3 Tablespoons butter
3/4 teaspoon salt
pinch of baking powder
Milk
Mix dry ingredients and cut in butter. Add enough milk to make a soft dough. Knead for a minute until smooth and let sit for 1/2 hour. Roll out dough to desired thickness. Dough should be on the thin side. Cut into 1/2 inch strips, 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.
Drop into boiling stew and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until noodles are cooked.
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Parsley Bread Dumplings
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1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
2 slices white bread, quartered
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
4 tablespoons butter, melted
Combine parsley and bread in processor; whirl until medium
size crumbs. Add 1 1/4 cups flour, baking powder, and salt; process just until combined. Add 1/2 cup milk and butter; process using on-off pulses just until blended. 5 Drop mounded tablespoons of dumpling mixture into stew.
Add chicken to a pot and cover with chicken broth or combination of
water and broth.
Add 1 garlic clove, a few sprigs of thyme and bay leaf. Cook for 15
minutes and add whole peeled onions, celery cut into 1 1/2 inch pieces
and simmer until onions are tender. Remove Chicken from pot and
separate meat from bones. Add chicken back to pot. If using potatoes
add now.
Now add what ever dumpling recipe you are using and simmer until
dumplings are cooked.
If you like your stew thicker, mix some flour and milk or cream in a
jar and pour into hot stew. Stir to make sure there are no lumps.
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Happy New Year Ann..glad you are feeling better!
So sorry you've been under the weather, Ann. I hope you continue to feel better and will be back to your normal life soon. Chicken and dumplings is our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. It's one of my favorite meals.
This recipe is warming and comforting. Perfect for the winter blues. I especially like the dumplings.Happy New Year!
Wishing you a Most Joyous New Year for you and your family Ann. I enjoy your blog and your recipes so very much, thank you for sharing your love of good food for all of us to enjoy.I am glad you are feeling better, nothing is more unpleasant than being sick, (or going to the doctor) and him telling you something you already know and charging you the national debt.I will try this over the weekend, I am having roast chicken tonight for New Year's eve dinner, then leftovers, so I will try one of your dumpling recipes.Take care and see you next year lol
Happy New Year Ann!I hope you feel better very soon!Your stew looks restorative!L~xxxxxxxxxooooooo
Ann you chicken stew looks wonderful. I am so glad you are feeling better now. Hope you continue to improve rapidly apace. I've been under the weather, too, and think a bowl of this is just what I need to feel better. Thanks!
The stew looks great, but I'm especially grateful for the rutabaga suggestion. I loathe carrots but am usually kind of stuck for something to use in their stead.
Thanks everyone. The cough seems to have eased up. Still not 100% gone. But way better.Fearless Kitchen, Nice to know I'm not the only one that hates carrots. I use rutabaga often in stews and pot pies.Ann
So glad you're starting to feel more yourself! Lousy to feel that way over the holidays. :(There's nothing like the comfort of a hot stew! My mother made dumplings all the time…in chicken stews, lamb stews, anything. We loved them. Thanks for reminding me.Happy New Year to you Ann!
Happy New Year! Glad your feeling better. Nothing like comfort foods to make anyone feel better. Hope you have a healthy 2011!Pam