Momma's Homemade Dumplings for CHICKEN and DUMPLINGS
- 4 cup all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp onion OR garlic powder (optional)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup shortnening or lard
- 1 1/2 cup chicken broth (atleast room tenp.
- 1 ***** 6 cups of FLAVORFUL CHICKEN BROTH from my profile......
- 1/2 can cream of chicken soup
- mix all dry ingredients together... you can sift them together if you like....
- add broth ... 1 cup .... and then add the other 1/2 cup a little at a time... u may not need it all..
- Mix until it makes a ball of dough....
- I wrap mine in plastic wrap.... put it in Ziploc bag and refrigerate...
- I make it about 2-3 days before the holiday.. when your ready sit out dough for about 30 minutes and let it get room temp..
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- cut the dough evenly into.3 pieces.....
- lightly flour your work surface and rub your rolling pin with flour
- roll the dough out to 1/4" thick..... dust lightly with flour....cut dough into square dumplings..
- **** to freeze put a piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet... put dumplings on the wax paper ..... lay a piece of wax paper on the top.and then lay another single layer of dumplings .. .
- keep repeating this procedure... mine sometime is 4-5 layers high....
- roll out more dough.... and our on wax paper ..... do this til ALL THE DOUGH....is rolled out.
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- I only do 1/3 of the dough at a time because it is easier to.handle....
- LAY A SHEET OF WAXPAPER ON THE TOP TO KEEP DUMPLINGS FROM DRYING OUT WHILE THEY FREEZE....
- ***** because I have an impairment...
- I make these and freeze for the holidays...
- after frozen I put the dumplings in a freezer bag..... sprinkle flour lightly on top of dumplings and shake freezer bag until lightly coated...
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- put 1 cup of cold chicken broth in reserve
- heat the remainder of the FLAVOFUL CHICKEN BROTH ..... add cream of chicken soup.
- bring to a boil..... add dumplings...ONE AT A TIME....or they will stick into a mess!!!
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- take 2 TBSP of flour and mix in broth u left reserved should be cold....mix with fork until flour is dissolved.... add to hot dumplings.... stir to thinken let cook for 10 minutes... dumplings should be done...
- **** again because of my impairment I make dumplings by large batches and freeze......
- I feed a family of 4..... two times with this dumpling recipe....
- only use about 1/2 of the batch of the dumplings for a family of 4....
flour, baking powder, onion, salt, lard, chicken broth, cream of chicken soup
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/354783-mommas-homemade-dumplings-for-chicken-and-dumplings (may not work)