Homestyle chicken and dumplings just like grandma made, with delicious and also very  inexpensive chicken on the bone for a pure comfort food supper.

Chicken and Dumplings

Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime

My recipe  of the day centers around comfort food soup and stew recipes. For me, this means a trip down memory lane to the kind of chicken and dumplings the way my mother made it.

How do you  like your chicken & dumplings?

There are a couple of different ways to make it,  chicken on the bone or off. Dumplings made from biscuit dough or rolled and cut. Mine is the kind made with chicken drumsticks and also parsley dumplings.

My Dad loved this

It was my joy to visit my father again this summer although bittersweet following my brother passing away. Any time I visit him, I always cook up a storm. And on this occasion I asked him if there was anything special that he’d like, and he mentioned chicken and dumplings.He’d been getting a bit thin  of late so I was happy that he ate several helpings and enjoyed every bite.

I don’t gloat, but my chix & dumplings are much better than my  mom’s ever were. Not for flavor, but hers was perhaps a bit more soupy than  mine, and also her chicken didn’t have as good a finish on  the skin. But I know she would not hold it against me, but rather enjoy it in pride. For if the next generation cooks a step higher than the first,  then the first cook has indeed passed on all her knowledge and the child takes it further.

I hope my daughter cooks everything in her kitchen better than me. It’s the core reason for my  blog–a place for her to find what I cook and compare notes. After all, she lives miles from her mother, as I did from my own mother. Life has carried us all on the breeze.

Be sure not to miss my bonus post for the day:  Caramel Apple Cereal Bars, which I am  posting with a group of bloggers for Halloween Food and Fun! Can you believe it’s almost Halloween already?

Oh,  and I saw they have Christmas candy on the market shelves already. Yeesh!

~s

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Chicken and Dumplings

Chicken and Dumplings

Sue Lau

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Total Time 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins

Course Main Course, Soups and Stews, Stew

Cuisine American, Southern

Ingredients

  

Stew:

• 2-1/2 pounds chicken drumsticks about 8
• salt and black pepper
• flour as needed to dredge chicken
• cooking oil
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 4 ribs celery sliced
• 1 pound carrots peeled and chopped
• 2 medium onions cut into wedges
• 2 teaspoons chopped garlic
• 1 bay leaf
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 48 ounces chicken broth
• 1 cup milk

Dumplings:

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons dried parsley flakes
• 1 tablespoon dried chives
• 1-1/2 cups buttermilk

Instructions

 

Prepare the stew:

• Season chicken with salt and pepper then dredge in flour and shake off excess.
• Brown chicken in about 1/2 inch of cooking oil in a skillet then drain and set aside.
• Heat butter in a dutch oven and add celery, carrots and onions, and saute until onions soften but not browned.
• Add garlic, bay leaf, thyme and poultry seasoning, stirring well.
• Add flour, stirring to coat the vegetables, then stir in the chicken broth and cook until it comes to a boil, stirring.
• Place chicken drumsticks on top,then cover, reduce heat and simmer for 35 minutes.

Prepare the dumplings.

• Place shortening, flour, baking powder and salt in a food processor and pulse to mix.
• Add dried parsley, chives and buttermilk, stirring by hand to make a batter. Set aside.
• Remove chicken legs from stew and keep warm.
• Add milk to stew and stir.
• Drop dumpling batter into boiling stew by the tablespoonful; cook uncovered at a simmer for 12 minutes.
• Then cover the pot and cook 10-12 minutes more or until dumplings are cooked thorough.
• Remove dumplings from stew and place in a dish. Add the chicken back to the pan to briefly warm, then serve chicken and stew with dumplings.

Notes

From the kitchen of palatablepastime.com

Keyword chicken, dumplings

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