Friday, October 14, 2011

Chicken and Dumplings

This was my first attempt ever at chicken & dumplings.  I will admit I love Cracker Barrel chicken & dumplings and I wanted to see if I could make something comparable.  I found this great recipe here
and thought it would be a good starting point.  Next time I will make my own dumplings (per the recipe), but this time I already had dumplings on hand that I wanted to use.  I also added salt, garlic powder (of course!!) and pepper, to taste, to my batch at the end.  This got the Mister's stamp of approval so I believe I did good!!
For this you'll need:
  • 4 quarts chicken broth
  • about 3 cups shredded chicken (I used as much chicken as I could peel off the fryer)
  • 1 bag dumplings
  • 4 tbsp flour
  • 5 tbsp water
  • salt (to taste)
  • pepper (to taste)
  • garlic powder (to taste)


Bring broth to a boil and add dumplings.  Cook per package directions.  Mine took about 7 minutes.

Mix flour and water thoroughly in small bowl.  Pour into broth.  Add chicken.  Add salt, pepper, and garlic powder.  Mix and heat through.

Doesn't it look yummy??

**It's important to note that if you use the bagged dumplings, you need to add some salted butter at the end of this recipe (trust me on this, friends, it makes it PERFECT!).  I'd say about 2-3 tbsp depending on taste for a large batch like this.

Perfect fall comfort food!!  Seriously, so good!!  I'll let you know when I make the dumplings from scratch, it will be soon!

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