Traditional Chicken N Dumplins

Total Time: 2 hrs Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 lbs chicken breasts
• 6 cups water
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon pepper
• 3 teaspoons chicken bouillon granules
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 2 cups chicken broth
• 1/2 cup cold butter
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch

Recipe

• 1 in a large stock pot, add the first 6 ingredients.
• 2 let chicken and liquid come to a boil, reduce heat to medium, and cook for about an hour.
• 3 30 minutes before chicken is done, start the dumplins.
• 4 combine the flour, poultry seasoning, salt, and baking powder. mix well.
• 5 cut the butter into the flour mixture until the consistency is crumby.
• 6 beat the egg and combine with the chicken broth.
• 7 pour the chicken broth and egg mixture into the flour mixture.
• 8 stir until all ingredients are combine.
• 9 on a floured surface, roll out the dough with a floured rolling pin.
• 10 roll out dough until about 1/8 inch thick.
• 11 with a pizza cutter, cut dough into strips, then cut again perpendicularly to form little square dumplins.
• 12 i flour the dumplins again to ensure they do not stick together when placed into the stock pot.
• 13 once the chicken has cooked for an hour, remove chicken from liquid.
• 14 bring liquid to a full boil and add dumplins a few at a time.
• 15 once all dumplins are in the stock pot, cook for 15 minutes.
• 16 stir every once in a while to make sure they do not stick to each other or to the bottom of the pot.
• 17 while the dumplins are cooking, shred or chop the chicken into little pieces. *see note if you would like the stock to be thicker.
• 18 after the dumplins are done cooking, remove stock pot from heat and fold in the chicken.
• 19 *note: combine the milk and cornstarch and add to the dumplins after they had cooked for the 15 minutes. this will thicken it slightly. then fold in chicken.