Recipe: Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings

Recipe

Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings

2-1/2 to 3 lb. broiler fryer
2 quarts water
2 tsps. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper

Place chicken in a Dutch oven or heavy pot; add water and 2 tsps. salt. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer for one hour or until chicken is tender. Remove from broth and cool, reserving broth in pot.

Debone chicken and cut meat into bite-sized pieces; set aside. Meanwhile, bring broth to a boil and add pepper.

Dumplings:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
3 Tblsps. shortening
3/4 cup buttermilk

Combine flour, soda and 1/2 tsp. salt; cut in shortening until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add buttermilk, stirring with a fork until dry ingredients are moistened. Turn dough out onto a well floured surface and knead lightly 4 or 5 times. Pat dough into 1/2-inch thickness; pinch off dough in 1 1/2-inch pieces and drop into boiling broth. (You may want to do this just like you did the dough for the chicken pie: roll it out and cut with a knife or pizza cutter into small pieces instead of the big dumplings.)

Reduce heat to medium low and cook about 8 to 10 minutes or until desired consistency, stirring occasionally. stir in chicken. If you have plenty of broth, you may want to eat this the southern way—over rice. Makes 4 to 6 servings.

A Little History

Dishpan Chicken Pie

Chicken Recipes

Bob Ann's Chicken Pie

Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings

—Bob Ann Breland is editor and publisher of Fun with Food, a monthly food newsletter, featuring southern cooking. A sample was available in 1996 by sending $2 to Fun with Food, 53296 Highway 436, Angie LA 70426.

This Archived Page created between 1994 and 2001. Modified August 2007

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