Chicken Dumplings Northern Style Dough Balls Not Flat N Recipes

CALICO CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Place chicken, celery, onion, parsley, parsnips in a large Dutch oven and cover with water.
• Bring to a boil and lower heat to medium low, just hot enough to maintain a slow simmer.
• When chicken is tender, remove the chicken to a bowl.
• Whisk the flour into about 1/2 cup of the chicken broth from the pot.
• When smooth, return to the pot, stir and heat to thicken.
• Add seasoning salt to your taste.
• When the gravy tastes just right, return the chicken and add the frozen vegetables to the pot.
• Prepare the dumplings: Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together.
• Stir in parsley, chives; thyme and marjoram if you're using them.
• Beat the milk and egg together and add to the dry ingredients.
• Stir with a fork just until mixed.
• Don't beat or handle too much.
• Bring chicken and gravy to a simmer.
• Drop heaping tablespoons of the dumpling batter all over the surface of the stew.
• Replace cover and steam for about 10 minutes.
• If you have more batter than you have room, make a second batch.
• Don't overcrowd the dumplings.

NORTHERN CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• 1. In a Dutch oven (or a 5- to 6-quart heavy pot with a tight-fitting lid), heat butter over medium. Add onion, carrots, celery and thyme. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft, about 5 minutes.
• 2. Add 1/4 cup flour and cook, stirring, 30 seconds. Add broth and bring to a boil, stirring constantly; season with salt and pepper. Nestle chicken in pot; reduce heat to medium-low. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, 20 minutes.
• 3. Meanwhile, make dumplings: In a medium bowl, whisk together remaining 3/4 cup flour, dill, baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt. With a fork, gradually stir in 1/2 cup milk to form a moist and soft batter. It should be just a little thicker than pancake batter and should easily drop from the tip of a spoon. (Add additional 2 tablespoons milk if too thick.) Set aside.
• 4. Stir peas into pot. Drop batter in simmering liquid in 10 heaping tablespoonfuls, keeping them spaced apart (dumplings will swell as they cook). Cover, and simmer until chicken is tender and dumplings are firm, 20 minutes. Serve.

CHICKEN AND FLUFFY DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• Combine the first 8 ingredients in a large pot.
• Simmer covered, 1 to 1 1/2 hours or until chicken is tender.
• Skim off fat.
• DUMPLINGS.
• Combine dry ingredients.
• Stir in remaining ingredients.
• Drop by tablespoonfuls onto hot chicken and boiling stock.
• Cover tightly and return to boiling.
• Reduce heat to a simmer, Do Not Lift Cover.
• Simmer 12 to 15 minutes or until dumplings are dry and fluffy.
• Arrange dumplings and chicken on a platter.
• Strain broth.
• GRAVY.
• Combine flour and water, blend till smooth.
• Bring 4 cups reserved broth to boiling, add flour mixture.
• Bring to boil and cook till thickened.
• Add salt and pepper.
• Pour over chicken and dumplings.

THE BEST CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS

Steps:

• In a shallow bowl, mix 1/2 cup flour, salt and pepper. Add chicken, 1 piece at a time, and toss to coat; shake off excess. In a 6-qt. stockpot, heat oil over medium-high heat. Brown chicken in batches on all sides; remove from pan., Add onion, carrots and celery to same pan; cook and stir 6-8 minutes or until onion is tender. Add garlic; cook and stir 1 minute longer. Stir in 1/4 cup flour until blended. Gradually add stock, stirring constantly. Stir in wine, sugar, bay leaves and peppercorns. Return chicken to pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, covered, 20-25 minutes or until chicken juices run clear., For dumplings, in a bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, whisk milk and melted butter until blended. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened (do not overmix). Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto a parchment-lined baking sheet; set aside., Remove chicken from stockpot; cool slightly. Discard bay leaves and skim fat from soup. Remove skin and bones from chicken and discard. Using 2 forks, coarsely shred meat into 1- to 1-1/2-in. pieces; return to soup. Cook, covered, on high until mixture reaches a simmer., Drop dumplings on top of simmering soup, a few at a time. Reduce heat to low; cook, covered, 15-18 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of dumplings comes out clean (do not lift cover while simmering). Gently stir in cream, parsley and thyme. Season with additional salt and pepper to taste.

CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS -NORTHERN STYLE (DOUGH BALLS, NOT FLAT N

Steps:

• Combine in a large dutch oven or covered pot, the skinned chicken, the chicken broth + 3 or more cups of hot water (enough to completely cover the chicken). Add celery, onion, parsley, bouillon cubes, salt and pepper.
• Cover and simmer for 1-1/2 hours (depending on the size of the pieces) or until tender enough to pull of the bone.
• Remove chicken and let stand until cool enough to handle. Pull meat off bones and add meat back to pot.
• If you want your broth to be gravy-like (recommended, but optional): this doesn't need to be exact:.
• For each cup of broth, blend 1 T flour and 3 T water or milk to form smooth paste.
• Gradually stir this into broth.
• Add carrots and return soup to a simmer.
• DUMPLINGS:.
• In a mixing bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add parsley.
• With 2 knives, scissor fashion, cut in the shortening until it looks like very coarse corn meal.
• With fork, lightly mix in milk to form soft dough, stirring as little as possible. Be sure not to add too much milk so you can roll the dumplings into balls in your hands.
• Turn broth down to a simmer.
• Drop by tablespoon size or slightly larger, into the stew.
• Simmer 1 side of dumplings about 12 minutes, uncovered.
• Gently turn over with a spoon as many as possible and simmer another 15 minutes, COVERED.
• Serve immediately, being gentle with the dumplings.