Ham and Dumplings
This recipe for ham and dumplings is delicious and perfect comfort food!
Servings: 10 servings
Ingredients
- 4 to 5 cups ham cooked and cut into bite sized pieces or chunks
- 1/2 cup green onion chopped (can use regular onion)
- 1/2 cup celery chopped
- 12 cups water or could use half chicken broth
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon basil
- 1/2 teaspoon chives
- 1/2 teaspoon parsley flakes
Dumpling Ingredients:
- 2 cups self rising flour
- 1/4 cup of shortening
- Boiling Water
Instructions
- Add all ham ingredients to large soup pot and bring to boil. Simmer for about an hour. Add dumpling recipe below.
- Note: You can add ham bone, too, if you have one and remove before adding dumplings.
Dumplings:
- Pour 2 cups self-rising flour into a large bowl, cut in 1/4 cup shortening with a pastry blender or fork, add 3/4 cup boiling water a little at a time until you can shape the mixture into a ball.
- Knead several times. (Some people like to pinch off pieces of the dough and drop into broth but I like them uniform and this is so easy. Roll out to about 1/8 inch of thickness on a floured board.
- Cut into strips, then squares.
- Note: It is so easy to cut them with a pizza cutter and much quicker and they taste just the same!
- 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.