Chicken and Dumplings

Submitted by hank on Sun, 12/12/2021 - 14:31
Description

A savory soup to satisfy your comfort-food craving.

Yield
8 Servings
Preparation time
30 minutes
Cooking time
30 minutes
Total time
1 hour
Ingredients
1⁄4 c Vegetable Oil
1⁄2 c Onion (diced)
1⁄2 c Celery (chopped)
1⁄2 c Carrots (diced)
1 t Salt (fine, double if coarse)
1 t Black Pepper (ground)
1 t Thyme
1⁄2 c Parsley (fresh, chopped)
4 c Chicken Broth
1 c White Flour
2 t Baking Powder
1⁄2 t Salt (fine, or double for course)
1 T Butter (may substitute margarine or butter)
1⁄2 c Milk (may substitute soy)
Instructions
  1. Heat vegetable oil in a large stock pot.
  2. Sauté the onions, celery, and carrots until softened.
  3. Add the broth, salt, pepper, thyme, parsley.
  4. Bring to a boil.
  5. In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of salt,  and butter until the pieces of butter are about the size of a pea.
  6. Add the milk to the flour mixture.  Do not over mix the dumpling mixture.
  7. Plop the dumpling mixture in quarter-cup blobs into the boiling soup.
  8. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 20 minutes.
Source

Thanks to Carol: https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/6900/dumplings/ (and her mom) for the dumplings recipe.