Chicken And Dumplings

[AlaCowboy]

I made chicken and dumplings for dinner tonight. One chicken cut into pieces and boiled in water seasoned with salt and pepper, bay leaves and a sprinkle of garlic salt. After letting the chicken cool I stripped all the meat off the bones and gave the dog the leftover skin for his afternoon snack.
I then put some carrot slices into the stock and cooked them on medium heat and stirred in a cup of masa harina to thicken the stock. I made up some biscuit dough and rolled it very thin on a board with countertop laminate on it. Then I cut the dough into thin pieces about 1" by 2". I use a pizza cutter for this. When I had enough I turned the heat up to medium high. When the broth was beginning to bubble I began dropping my dough squares in and cooked it about 10 minutes until it was ready to eat. It was wonderful. We have enough left for lunch Saturday.

[Panama pfRedd]

When I was a kid and my mom would ask me what I wanted for my birthday dinner my answer was always the same, "Chicken and dumplings!"

[Walter]

Oct 7, 2021 23:10:35 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

I made chicken and dumplings for dinner tonight. One chicken cut into pieces and boiled in water seasoned with salt and pepper, bay leaves and a sprinkle of garlic salt. After letting the chicken cool I stripped all the meat off the bones and gave the dog the leftover skin for his afternoon snack.
I then put some carrot slices into the stock and cooked them on medium heat and stirred in a cup of masa harina to thicken the stock. I made up some biscuit dough and rolled it very thin on a board with countertop laminate on it. Then I cut the dough into thin pieces about 1" by 2". I use a pizza cutter for this. When I had enough I turned the heat up to medium high. When the broth was beginning to bubble I began dropping my dough squares in and cooked it about 10 minutes until it was ready to eat. It was wonderful. We have enough left for lunch Saturday.

My version adds parsley, celery, carrot, whole garlic and one onion cut in half, with skin left on, all in the pot to start. All are discarded with the carcass bones, leaving a clean broth, and then fresh chopped baby carrots and harina added in to finish.
I like the dough squares idea. Hadn't thought of it before.

[cbisbig]

Ha
I made the same thing last night.
Mine has celery onion and carrots.

[AlaCowboy]

Oct 8, 2021 12:25:47 GMT -5 Walter said:

Oct 7, 2021 23:10:35 GMT -5 AlaCowboy said:

I made chicken and dumplings for dinner tonight. One chicken cut into pieces and boiled in water seasoned with salt and pepper, bay leaves and a sprinkle of garlic salt. After letting the chicken cool I stripped all the meat off the bones and gave the dog the leftover skin for his afternoon snack.
I then put some carrot slices into the stock and cooked them on medium heat and stirred in a cup of masa harina to thicken the stock. I made up some biscuit dough and rolled it very thin on a board with countertop laminate on it. Then I cut the dough into thin pieces about 1" by 2". I use a pizza cutter for this. When I had enough I turned the heat up to medium high. When the broth was beginning to bubble I began dropping my dough squares in and cooked it about 10 minutes until it was ready to eat. It was wonderful. We have enough left for lunch Saturday.

My version adds parsley, celery, carrot, whole garlic and one onion cut in half, with skin left on, all in the pot to start. All are discarded with the carcass bones, leaving a clean broth, and then fresh chopped baby carrots and harina added in to finish.
I like the dough squares idea. Hadn't thought of it before.

Roll the dough out about as thin as a tortilla wrap, then slice with the pizza cutter. That's the way my mom made them, but we never had a pizza cutter. She used a knife.
Here's my mom dumpling story:
When my nephew (her baby grandson) was graduating Navy boot camp at Great Lakes she made up a batch of dumpling broth and chicken and froze it and my brother packed it in th trunk and they drove from Alabama to Illinois. At the hotel room she used a hotplate to heat up the broth while she rolled out the dough and my brother and his wife went to pick up my nephew. When they got back to the hotel room mom surprised him with chicken and dumplings (his very favorite Mammaw food) as his graduation gift. There was enough to feed all four but my nephew sat and ate it all in about an hour.