Old Fashioned Chicken And Dumplings Recipe

chicken

🥗Healthier: turkey

💰Cheaper: chicken thighs

Turkey is leaner and lower in calories; chicken thighs are more affordable.

flour

🥗Healthier: whole wheat flour

💰Cheaper: all-purpose flour

Whole wheat flour offers more nutrients; all-purpose flour is often less expensive.

Cut the chicken in half down the backbone and through the breast bone, quartering if desired.

Place the chicken into a large pot with water heating up.

Add 1/3 cup of Nor brand chicken bouillon, a few stalks of celery, 1 onion, a couple of carrots, and 1 bay leaf to the pot.

Optionally add giblets for extra flavor.

Start cooking the chicken to make stock.

In a separate pot, start warming up more chicken stock for the dumplings.

Prepare the dumpling dough by sifting 2 cups of flour into a bowl.

Add 1.5 teaspoons of baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper, and 1 to 1.5 teaspoons of salt to the flour.

Cut in butter using a pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Gradually add a little over 1/4 cup of milk to the flour mixture, adjusting as necessary to achieve a soft dough.

Dust a surface with flour and roll out the dough to about 3/16 inch thick.

Cut the dough into rectangles about 1 to 1.25 inches wide and place them on a floured tray.

Prepare for cooking by sprinkling more flour on the dumplings before adding them to the pot.

Cooking Techniques

Equipment Needed

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