One of my favorite dishes as a kid was my dad’s homemade Chicken & Dumplings. It’s the quintessential Southern comfort dish with a rich chicken broth and homemade dumplings seasoned with lots of black pepper. When I first learned to make this dish, I made it as the recipe describes below. However, lately my husband and I have been smoking our chicken instead of boiling it. It adds such a great flavor to an already fantastic dish.
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Chicken & Dumplings
Course: SoupsCuisine: SouthernDifficulty: Easy4
servings30
minutes2
hoursIngredients
- Chicken & Stock:
1 1 whole chicken, cut up
Cajun seasoning, to taste
5 cups 5 water
2 stalks 2 celery, quartered
1 1 onion, quartered
2 2 carrots, quartered
2 cloves 2 minced garlic
1 1/2 tsp 1 1/2 salt
1 tsp 1 black pepper
1/2 tsp 1/2 dried thyme
- Dumplings:
2 cups 2 all-purpose flour
1/3 cup 1/3 ice cold water
fresh ground black pepper, for seasoning
Directions
- Chicken & Stock:
- Season the chicken with your favorite Cajun seasoning mix (I prefer Tony Chachere’s Cajun Seasoning). Add chicken, water, celery, onion, carrots, garlic, salt, pepper, and thyme to a large pot or Dutch oven and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer for 1 hour.
- Turn off heat and let pot rest on the burner, covered, for another hour. Remove chicken and vegetables from stock using a slotted spoon. Discard vegetables. Remove skin and bones from chicken and set chicken aside.
- Dumplings:
- Mix flour, water and black pepper in a bowl until you obtain a dough consistency. Sprinkle flour on a clean surface and roll the dough out to about 1/4-inch thick. Continue to sprinkle flour on the dumplings so they don’t stick. Use a pizza cutter and cut the dumplings into 1″ x 2″ strips
- Assembly:
- Bring chicken broth to a low boil over medium-high heat. One-by-one, add the dumplings to the boiling stock. Reduce heat to medium-low and let the dumplings cook, uncovered, for 5 minutes.
- Add the chicken and carefully stir before serving.
Notes
- When I say to add black pepper to the dumpling dough, you should be very generous with the black pepper in order to give the dumplings some much needed flavor
- Other blogs suggest serving 3 – 4 sliced boiled eggs with chicken & dumplings. I have not personally tried this, but I will definitely have to do so the next time we make it because it sounds amazing!
- If you’d like, you can smoke your chicken for added flavor. Once the chicken is cooked, debone and use the bones to make the chicken stock/broth.
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