Momma’s Best Chicken and Dumplings

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Description

There’s a lot of love in those dumplings! This is comfort food at its best and so worth the time and effort. I love the ohhs, awws, and OMGs, smiles, and sighs of total satisfaction that come with this bowl of heaven.

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup butter
  • 2 ribs celery, quartered
  • 1 large carrot, quartered
  • 1 small onion, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon mashed garlic
  • 2 large bay leaves
  • ½ teaspoon dried thyme
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
  • ⅛ teaspoon poultry seasoning
  • 2 pounds bone-in chicken breasts
  • water to cover
  • 2 tablespoons self-rising flour (such as White Lily®)
  • 2 cups self-rising flour (such as White Lily®)
  • ¼ cup cold shortening
  • ¼ cup chicken broth, slightly chilled

Instructions

  1. Melt butter in a stock pot over medium-high heat. Add celery
  2. carrot
  3. onion
  4. garlic
  5. bay leaves
  6. thyme
  7. salt
  8. pepper
  9. and poultry seasoning; cook and stir until flavors combine
  10. about 5 minutes. Push vegetable mixture to the sides and add chicken; cook until browned
  11. 3 to 5 minutes per side.
  12. Pour enough water over the chicken to cover by 3 inches; bring to a boil. Stir
  13. scraping the browned bits off of the bottom of the pot. Reduce heat; simmer until chicken is tender
  14. about 1 hour. Transfer chicken and carrots to a serving plate with a large slotted spoon; let cool.
  15. Ladle 1/4 cup cooking liquid into a bowl; cool slightly
  16. about 5 minutes. Mix in 2 tablespoons flour. Stir back into the pot.
  17. Place 2 cups flour in a large bowl; cut in shortening with 2 knives until mixture forms pea-sized bits. Mix in chilled chicken broth until dough is combined.
  18. Turn dough out onto a floured work surface. Knead 5 to 6 times; pat down to 1-inch thickness. Sprinkle lightly with flour; roll out to about 1/8-inch thickness. Cut dough into squares with a sharp knife.
  19. Drop squares
  20. in batches
  21. into simmering cooking liquid
  22. moving squares to the side with each addition. Partially cover pot; simmer until dumplings are firm
  23. about 12 minutes. Separate any dumplings that stick together. Remove from heat; keep covered.
  24. Bone chicken; cut into bite-sized pieces and return to the pot. Chop carrot; return to the pot. Cool chicken and dumplings
  25. about 30 minutes
  26. before serving.

Prep Time: 30 mins

Cook Time: 1 hr 28 mins

Total Time: 2 hrs 33 mins

Servings: 8

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