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    Home » From My Kitchen » Recipes

    01/28/2013

    chicken & dumplings recipe- a comfort food favorite at my house

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    I enjoy eating a warm bowl of chicken & dumplings. How about y'all?

    Chicken & Dumplings

    "menu plan monday chicken & dumplings recipe"


    My boys love my chicken & dumplings recipe that I got from my mother in law. It's not the dumplings I was used to but it is still a great recipe that is a southern comfort food staple at our house.

    Chicken & Dumplings

    Ingredients:

    1-2 Split chicken breasts
    2 & ½ cups self rising flour
    1 chicken bouillon cube or granules
    1 stick of butter
    ½ cup of Crisco shortening
    1- 1& ½ cups buttermilk
    salt & pepper to taste
    water if needed for extra broth

    Directions:

    Cook the chicken breast covered in water or chicken broth you can buy at the store in a slow cooker on high for 4 hours. Drain the broth to a pot and add some water to broth (I add 2 cups of water to my broth).

    "chicken & dumplings recipe"

    Add bouillon cube (or granules), salt and pepper and butter to your broth.

    "chicken & dumplings recipe"

    In a large bowl mix your flour, shortening and buttermilk as it says on the back of the flour bag to make biscuits (don't add any other ingredients to the mix just the 3 I mentioned). Drop the biscuit mix into warm broth by the small spoonful.

    "chicken & dumplings recipe"

    As soon as you finish dropping biscuit mix and the broth bubbles up through the dough 1 time, turn the burner down to low and cover with a lid. With heat on low cook your dumplings for 25 minutes. NEVER take the lid of for anything during that 25 minutes!

    "chicken & dumplings recipe"

    "chicken & dumplings recipe"

    While the dumplings are cooking take your chicken breast and pull all the meat off and shred the chicken meat up. I use 2 forks do shred. Once dumplings are done gently mix shredded chicken into dumplings with a large spoon.

    I get 4 servings out of this Chicken & Dumplings recipe on the day I make it and then still have enough for Little B and I to eat for lunch the next day so 6 servings total.

    Chicken & Dumplings

    Recipe Type: Entree
    Author: Mama B
    Prep time: 15 mins
    Cook time: 4 hours 25 mins
    Total time: 4 hours 40 mins
    Serves: 6
    Ingredients
    • 1-2 Split chicken breasts
    • 2 & ½ cups self rising flour
    • 1 chicken bouillon cube or granules
    • 1 stick of butter
    • ½ cup of Crisco shortening
    • 1- 1& ½ cups milk (whole milk or buttermilk)
    • salt & pepper to taste
    • water if needed for extra broth
    Instructions
    1. Cook the chicken breast covered in water or chicken broth you can buy at the store in a slow cooker on high for 4 hours.
    2. Drain the broth to a pot and some water to broth (I add 2 cups of water to my broth).
    3. Add bouillon cube (or granules), salt and pepper and butter to your broth.
    4. In a large bowl mix your flour, shortening and buttermilk as it says on the back of the flour bag to make biscuits (don't add any other ingredients to the mix just the 3 I mentioned).
    5. Drop the biscuit mix into warm broth by the small spoonful. As soon as you finish dropping biscuit mix and the broth bubbles up through the dough 1 time, turn the burner down to low and cover with a lid.
    6. With heat on low cook your dumplings for 25 minutes. NEVER take the lid off for anything during that 25 minutes!
    7. While the dumplings are cooking take your chicken breast and pull all the meat off and shred the chicken meat up. I use 2 forks to shred.
    8. Once dumplings are done gently mix shredded chicken into dumplings with a large spoon.
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