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Oh boy, am I happy I came across this recipe at The Grateful Girl Cooks! Chicken soup with dumplings sounded and LOOKED amazing. I knew I had to try them out. Well, on a scale of 1-10 these dumplings were a 20! Pure comfort food for this chilly winter weather! And…..they were easy! Way easier than you’d think! So when you are snowed in one day soon, give this recipe a try!

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Ingredients

Chicken Soup:

1 package chicken thighs 4 thighs
1 onion
handful dill
8 cups Chicken broth
Add carrots if you please was out of them!

Dumplings:

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 heaping Tablespoons Crisco shortening
½ cup boiling HOT water
½ cup plus 2 Tablespoons flour Plus more if sticky-I needed quite a bit more
parsley for garnish

Instructions

Put the chicken, dill and onion in a large soup pot.
Add broth.
Bring to a boil and then simmer on low, covered about an hour.
Remove and discard onion.
Shred up chicken and discard skin/bones. Put chicken in broth.

Dumplings

In a bowl,cut the shortening and salt into the cup of flour.
Add the HOT water and the flour.
Stir until you have a dough ball that you can roll out. (Add more flour if you need to-I needed to add quite a bit more as mine was very sticky that day!)
Let ir rest 10 mins.
Roll out on a floured surface and cut into thin strips with a pizza cutter.
Drop into the hot broth and cook 10 mins.
Add salt if needed and serve up!