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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!