How to Make Chicken and Dumplings (Recipe)
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After you’ve finished your roast chicken or turkey, don’t toss the bones! You can create more delicious meals from them.
Chicken and Dumplings Recipe
Ingredients
Stock
Chicken bones
Water
Salt
Pepper
Garlic
Onions
Other favorite seasonings
Dumpling
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
3 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup butter, lard or shortening
1/2 cup cold water
Instructions
To make stock place chicken bones in a crock pot, fill with water and turn on low over night. If you don’t have a crock pot use a stock pot and simmer all day.
Strain out bones, set broth in the fridge to cool over night. The fat will rise to the top and form a hard white layer. Skim this off.
Bring the stock back to a boil and add chopped carrots, potatoes, meat and any other veggies you like.
Add salt, pepper, garlic and other seasonings to taste.
Dumplings
Mix the dry together, cut in butter.
Add water, stir until it just sticks together.
Final Prep
Mix up dumpling recipe and drop on top of the soup. Cover and simmer for 15 min.
Kim Mills is a homeschooling mom of 6 and lives on an urban homestead in Ontario, Canada. Blogging at Homestead Acres she enjoys sharing tips to help you save money, grow and preserve your own food.
