Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings
Ingrediënten
Makes 8 servings / Prep: 30 min.; Cook: 1 hr., 30 min.
- 1 2½-pound whole chicken, cut up
- 2½ teaspoons salt divided
- ¾ teaspoon black pepper divided
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon ground red pepper
- 1 teaspoon chicken bouillon granules
- 3 cups self-rising flour
- ½ teaspoon poultry seasoning
- ⅓ cup shortening
- 2 teaspoons bacon drippings
- 1 cup milk
Instructies
- Cover chicken with water, and bring to a boil in a large Dutch oven.
- Add 1½ teaspoons salt, ½ teaspoon pepper, garlic powder, thyme, and red pepper.
- Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 1 hour.
- Remove chicken, reserving broth in Dutch oven; cool chicken.
- Skim fat from broth, and bring broth to a simmer.
- Skin, bone, and coarsely chop chicken.
- Add chicken, bouillon granules, and remaining salt and pepper to broth.
- Return to simmer.
- Combine flour and poultry seasoning in a bowl.
- Cut in shortening and bacon drippings with a pastry blender until mixture is crumbly.
- Add milk, stirring until dry ingredients are moistened.
- Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface.
- Roll out to ⅛-inch thickness; cut into 1-inch pieces.
- Bring broth mixture to a boil.
- Drop dumplings, a few at a time, into boiling broth, stirring gently.
- Reduce heat, cover, and simmer, stirring often, for 25 minutes.
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