Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings
Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, grandma's chicken and dumplings. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

My Grandma, who lived in East Texas before she passed away, used to make this wonderful chicken n' dumpling soup for us when we would visit on family vacations. My grandmother used to make the BEST chicken and dumplings…This recipe is very similar to how I remember her making them. Passed down from grandma, this chicken and dumpling recipe is made from scratch for ultimate comforting flavor.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have grandma's chicken and dumplings using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings:
  1. Take 1 3-6 lb whole chicken
  2. Get 2 quart water
  3. Get 2 tsp salt
  4. Prepare 1 tsp course black pepper
  5. Prepare 2 cup all-purpose flour
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp baking powder
  7. Take 1/2 tsp salt
  8. Take 3 tbsp shortening
  9. Get 3/4 cup buttermilk

Learn how to prepare this easy Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings recipe like a pro. My Grandma loved to cook homemade chicken and dumplings for many reasons. I guess her main motivation was to satisfy the craving of her grandchildren. To this very day I can still remember Grandma hurrying around the kitchen, like she always did so frequently, taking all the necessary.

Steps to make Grandma's Chicken and Dumplings:
  1. Add water and 2 tsp salt to dutch oven and bring to a boil
  2. Add whole chicken and boil at medium heat for one hour
  3. Take chicken out of dutch oven to cool then debone (should be falling off the bone)
  4. Mix flour, baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt, shortening, and buttermilk. Knead 4 times
  5. Roll out dough 1/4 inch thick and cut into squares (or pinch off pieces the size of quarters)
  6. Add dumplings one at a time to remaining boiling water one at a time and simmer for 15 minutes
  7. Add deboned chicken and pepper and simmer for 15 more minutes…
  8. Enjoy!!

I want to preserve Grandma's original recipes in her cookbook but I use shortcuts most of the time. You may want to use some of these shortcuts like using Bisquick for the dumplings. GRAVY: Remove chicken, vegetables and dumplings from pot and place in a large serving bowl. Grandma's dinners were always the best. While the chicken is cooking mix up the dumpling batter.

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