Chicken and Dumplings

A savory soup to satisfy your comfort-food craving.

Yield

8 Servings

Prep time

30 minutes

Cook time

30 minutes

Total time

1 hour

Ingredients

• ¼ cup Vegetable Oil
• ½ cup Onion (diced)
• ½ cup Celery (chopped)
• ½ cup Carrots (diced)
• 1 teaspoon Salt (fine, double if coarse)
• 1 teaspoon Black Pepper (ground)
• 1 teaspoon Thyme
• ½ cup Parsley (fresh, chopped)
• 4 cups Chicken Broth
• 1 cup White Flour
• 2 teaspoons Baking Powder
• ½ teaspoon Salt (fine, or double for coarse)
• 1 tablespoon Butter (may substitute margarine or butter)
• ½ cup 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.