Tim Mcgraw's Chicken And Dumplings

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 small chicken
• water
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3 tablespoons butter flavor crisco
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 egg

Recipe

• 1 boil chicken, adding salt to taste. when tender, pull chicken from the bone and return to the broth.
• 2 pour flour into a bowl - cut the crisco into the flour until crumbly. arrange flour mixture in the bowl evenly leaving a hole in the middle. add 1 egg and enough buttermilk to form a doughy consistency (similar to how you would make biscuits).
• 3 sprinkle flour on cutting board. pinch off part of the dough and roll into a thin sheet and cut into squares.
• 4 drop one square at a time into broth. continue this until all of the dough is used. add salt and pepper to taste and simmer until tender.
• 5 allow the dumplings to thicken the broth until it is a creamy consistency.