It’s that time of the year again when comfort food comes to mind. Southern chicken and dumplings can’t be beat as the all-time best comfort food in my book. This dish can be made with leftover baked chicken, bought chicken, or turkey. You can also boil a chicken or chicken breasts for the recipe. My family loves chicken and dumplings and the more dumplings the better we like it!
Remove lid on pot and add several squares at a time to the boiling broth replacing lid each time for about 30 seconds until you have added all the dumplings. Once all the dumplings are added lower heat to simmer for about 20 minutes. Add salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy.
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I love chicken and dumplings. Just too much to make for one.
Thank you for reminding me of this favorite of mine.
Have a Merry Christmas and special Blessings are sent to you!!!!
make a small batch of chicken dumplings by using a few pieces of chicken, 1/2 can of the soup (freeze the rest) and a small can of cheap biscuits, rolled out and cut. Just as good!
I don’t even roll out the can of biscuits – I just pinch each biscuit into quarters and drop the little balls into the soup…they cook up nice & fluffy, delish!
I make dumplins from canned biscuits all the time.Delicious!!
I have wondered if the canned biscuits would work. Thanks for the tip.
I make my dumplings with torn flour tortillas. Couldn’t be faster or easier. Taste the same as handmade.
You can freeze them to eat later. I put single servings in freezer containers and on a cold winter’s night, I just heat up in the microwave and enjoy.
oh I have to try this, as soon as I get some shortening.
Christine, my aunt taught me to make dumplings using the self-rising and adding broth to the flour instead of the shortening and hot water. Everything is just the same as the above recipe.
I love chicken and dumplings. Used to make it when my kids lived at home. I did my dumplings the lazy way with Bisquick. bet yours are better.
Another easy way for dumplings……..flour tortillas cut in strips.
My mother was the best cook in the county. After she found this recipe in the paper, she tried it and vowed she would never roll out another dumpling. I use this method all the time now and swear by it.
Tried this also….Great!!
sounds like my kind of shortcut — will definitely try it. Thanks for the tip.
I have a stewing hen in the freezer…it was just waiting for this recipe.
Have a Merry Christmas…wish the same for your family.
Balisha
Hi Judy! I wish I had some of your chicken and dumplings right now—it looks so good! We had eighteen inches of snow last week and had no electricity for five days and no phone for three. We just got our power back and I’m ready to cook something just like this. I’m so happy to be back online! I love the pictures of Thomas Wyatt eating the gingerbread men—-he is the cutest little guy.
yum yum! We love Chicken and Dumplings!
Love chicken and dumplings I have always used bisquick but I add poultry seasoning and parsley
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When I was little my mama made potato dumplings . Do you have a recipe to make them? I’m going to make these tomorrow but I would like some potato dumplings also
Thank you
Shawn
Hi Shawn, Thanks for coming by and I hope you enjoy the dumplings. I have seen recipes by the Amish for potato dumplings. You might try searching the internet for Amish potato dumplings and see what you come up with. Maybe, someone else on here will have a recipes, too, and post it for us.
Do you have a link to the Amish people ?
I would love to learn to make them
Here is the link I found: http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2246,152178-230202,00.html
love this recipe, gotta try it as it’s slightly different than the one I grew up with. I use a pizza cutter to cut my dumplings, it’s fast & easy!!
That’s a great idea Crystal to use the pizza cutter. Thanks for sharing with us and thanks for stopping by and commenting.
Gonna try this tonight for dinner. Sounds realy good.
Reminds me of growing up and how the kids LOVED these dumplings. The REAL dumplings. Love the pic of them all cut out. Mine never looked that uniform and perfect. Thanks so much for posting; we are reminded that the REAL recipe still lives.
This sounds delicious and I love chicken and dumplings! If you’re pressed for time, instead of making the dumplings from scratch, you can used canned biscuits and just pinch them into quarters and drop in the broth. My mother did this sometimes when she made hers and it was always delicious!
That’s what my MaMa did also
the biscuits that is!
Yum! Yum! Yum! You make it look so easy. This has gotta be a taste treat!!
My hubby would love this! And it doesn’t look too difficult to do….I’m not a very good cook but I love reading recipes!
Same here, my hubby loves this.
I love the black pepper on top, sometimes it’s the little things.
I may have to make these soon! oh they look sooooooo good!
Judy, I enjoyed your recent baking recipes, but there’s nothing like a big pot of Chicken & Dumplings to warm the heart. Thanks for this!
Have u tried Flour tortillas ?? I like my dumplings with out the shortming ,Tough& thin ! , The thinner the better !
Margie, I’ve never tried flour tortillas but sounds so good and much easier. I work ten hour days so the easier the better. Was wondering about how long do you let them cook and how many do you use?
This looks like a yummy winter meal! I love soups and stews in the winter.
I make mine almost the same way! I put a lil garlic in my mine
They look Awesome, I can’t wait to try them, I’ve never been able to fix good chicken and dumplings! I will keep my fingers crossed! Thanks for sharing!
Just wondering, do you cover the pot once the dumplings are all in or leave the cover off?
Cover the pot, Ginger.
The frozen dumplings are wonderful & you don’t have to make them!!
Love the frozen dumplings,(walmart has them in their frozen food section) they taste the same as my mom used to make and since they are already rolled out we can have chicken and dumplings anytime. If I really need some quick and fast, I use canned chicken breast, can of cream of chicken soup and the rolled dumpings.
My mom always made homemade dumplings too but she would let hers dry out before adding to the liquid. She also added some boiled eggs in with the chicken and dumplings….delish….sure makes me miss her.
I am gonna try this and was wondering how many dumplings go into this recipe?? I’m probably gonna use the canned biscuits,,Need to know how many cans to bye you know! Lol! Not enough space or time to make the good one’s!!
Daa! That was “Buy”! Sorry,,, Tari
Hi Tari, I have not made it with canned biscuits. I would say two cans, maybe.
When my mother used to make it years ago, she usually used one can of biscuits and pinched off the biscuits into 4 pieces. We were a family of 9 and poor but that was enough for us. I always tried to find as many as I could as I loved dumplings!
I meant one to two cans of biscuits. (Sorry, I hit reply before I proofread!)
Thxs yawl, I am about to add my biscuits to the chicken so I will let ya know how it turned out!! If it taste as good as it smells then, it’s soo good!
I make my dumplings out of self-rising flour and the broth from boiling the chicken. Spoon chicken fat off top and use the broth. Works wonderfully. My friends are always asking me to make them chicken and dumplings. Goes great with fried cornbread or hoecakes. The best comfort food!
I, too, use self-rising flour and the broth from boiling the chicken.
agree!
i use the broth from the chicken as well for the fluid to make the dumplings. seasoned through and through!
This is the way my mother did it. Broth and flour.
I make chicken and dumplings by using an whole chicken.I like the flavor better .after cooking ,cool and remove skin and bones …. put back in the broth ,.and use the dumpling recipe on the bisquick box .yummy …just think the flavor is much better..sometimes using some onion and celery to flavor too.
I’m sure these are wonderful. I make dumplings by cutting up flour tortillas and dropping strips of them in the chicken mixture. They plump up and are delicious, and look nothing like strips of tortillas…
hhmmm, got to try this (strips of flour tortillas); sounds easy, and I love easy.
I also use flour tortillas. It’s so easy and know one knows what they started as.
why here in the south and it’s n.c. do people argue and say it’s chicken and pastry, i didnt grow up on that, i grew up on DUMPLINGS, why??
Thanks for the awesome recipes, reminds me of living in the south, I’ve been back a few years, and wish I had written some of the recipes down and brought them back with me
I made some last weekend, we don’t like celery in ours. I cheat I buy my pastry, very good.
How do the dumplings hold up if you leave them in a crockpot to serve all day. Thanks.
Hi Sandy, I have never done this with the dumplings. I feel like it would be o.k. but I can’t promise you anything.
My mother also made “chicken and dumplings” with the leftover turkey carcass (sp) after Thanksgiving/Christmas.
Is there a recipe book from you
Sorry, I don’t have one.
I always cook my chicken and use the broth from that. Mmm, so many ppl say they use cream of chicken soup…wondering what that would taste like added? Never tried it.
My family from Eastern Ky never wanted their dumplings to be ‘fluffy’, or to rise much. They made them simply from flour and water, rolled them out very thin, cut into squares, and dropped them into boiling broth. The chicken was always removed from the broth until the dumplings were cooked, then it was added back in. I miss my mother’s cooking.
I love flat dumplings, will have to try your recipe. Thanks. Tip: I use a pizza cutter to cut my dumplings, you wouldn’t believe how much easier it makes it.
you are the best. no matter what i am looking for i seem to find thru you. i got your dumplin recipe. then i went in search of how to make self rising flour with all pourpose flour and bingo found it under tips. thanks so much. keep up the good work. benda
Instead of making the dumplings from scratch, I use Bisquick. Very tasty and easier to make. I have never tried canned bisquits, but that sounds even easier.
I made just a little different but it turned out amazing,tyty
Can anyone tell me how long you would let the flour tortillas cook in the crockpot?
For my dumplings, I use one can of Grands Buttermilk biscuits. Roll them out with a little flour and slice them with a pizza cutter. Works great !