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!
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!
Adapted from The Grateful Girl Cooks
Jennifer R. says
Thank you Thank You Thank You for posting a recipe that does NOT used canned biscuits for the dumplings. This recipe is wonderful and truly homemade comfort in a bowl So delicious!!