Chicken And Dumplings Recipe No Veggies
An old-fashioned recipe for tender stewed chicken in a rich stock with soft dropped dumplings or use the same recipe for rolled and cut dumplings – whichever you prefer!
But I lost a recent battle. The Battle of the Dumplings. There was a mutiny. Or a boycott, depending on how you look at it.
My whole family. Every last stinking one of them prefers doughy drop dumplings over the rolled noodle-style dumplings I grew up eating and love most. I make them both ways because I know what they like but, ummm… I’M the one doing the cooking soooo… I make them the way I like too.
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The last time I made Chicken & Dumplings I told them I was making them my way. Evidently they rallied their bannermen and united their kingdoms because I was officially informed (by the one who drew the short straw while the others hid in the living room) that they weren’t eating supper if I didn’t make drop dumplings.
Dang it. I might be a powerful force of a woman - especially in my kitchen - but more than anything, I love to feed people. And I especially love to feed my family. And they know it too. The slick devils.
I think we all like what we grew up with best. I literally didn’t know there was any other sort of dumplings than the kind Nanny made until I was grown and saw them in a magazine and was like: That ain’t chicken and dumplins!
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I make both types of dumplings using the same recipe but Nanny actually made her rolled dumplings using flour and eggs. I’ve tried and tried to make them that way and the texture is never right so I either use this recipe or I use the stash of leftover biscuit trimmings I keep in the freezer.
1 - The secret to tender, flavorful chicken and delicious stock is to slowly bring everything to temperature and to never allow it to reach a full, rolling boil. You want it to cook low and slow the entire time. If time allows, the chicken and stock will be EVEN BETTER if you can cook the chicken from start to finish over low heat then allow everything to cool to room temperature in the pot after it’s cooked. TIP: Cook the chicken in the crock pot during the day (low for 6-8 hours or high for 4-6) then finish everything on the stove for an easy weeknight meal.
2 - Don't use boneless, skinless chicken breasts. Bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces can be substituted for the whole chicken in this recipe. If you simply must use boneless breasts anyway, omit the water and broth then use 8 cups chicken stock instead and add a stick of butter. Or consider adding 6 chicken legs or wings to flavor the stock.
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3 - For thinner, more noodle-like dumplings (some folks call them “slicks”), make the dumplings before you start the rest of the recipe then let them dry out for several hours (all day is fine) and roll them very thin (obviously). It may take a little longer to cook them when the time comes and you’ll likely need to gently stir them a bit to keep them from sticking to each other.
4 - If you don’t love the idea of the finely chopped vegetables (or know your grandmama didn’t make it that way and want to keep it simple), feel free to just rough-chop a few carrots, stalks of celery, several cloves of garlic and an onion then throw them in the pot when the chicken cooks. That way your stock will still get all the flavor. If you decide to do it this way, still melt the butter then cook the flour for 5 minutes over medium heat. This just makes a little roux to thicken the stock a bit. You’ll see a lot of recipes that call for a can of Cream of Something soup – this is the homemade equivalent to that.
5 - For an especially Southern spin on Chicken & Dumplings, add several sliced boiled eggs after adding the dumplings. My grandparent’s generation added boiled eggs to all sorts of dishes and I always loved it! I imagine it was a way to add protein to meals during lean times.
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I feel like the past 17 months have been full of one big change after the other. My son, of course, was born 17 months ago, so every parent out there knows what that transition is like. And then I found that working a full time job shut up in an office with no windows, and paying half my salary in child care to someone else to care for my child, was so utterly abhorrent that I was soul sick.
Now I pay for a little child care, and get to be in the classroom, which I love. I genuinely like teaching freshman composition. I like working with students who start the year as teenagers, and finish the semester as adults. It’s a remarkable, fast transition, and I feel privileged to get to not only witness the profound changes, but to help mold those transitions.
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It’s a frustrating cycle, and one I hope will be remedied in the not too distant future. I was lucky enough to get some work this spring, but it’s not guaranteed.
So I am taking on some other work from home, and that means my family’s schedule is about to get BUSY again.
Growing up, chicken and dumplings was one of my favorite meals. It was one of the only meals I would willingly eat meat in.
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My grandmother and I were very close. She was a great cook, but didn’t do it much after my grandfather died. But if I asked for chicken and dumplings, she’d make it for me.
I have a vivid, slice of a memory of sitting at the counter in the kitchen digging into a bowl of chicken and dumplings and counting frogs on the window pane.
Every night, when the lights in the house would come on we could watch little green tree frogs, bright colorful grasshoppers, and other insects climbing the big glass pane windows. Moths would flutter and thump against the glass, and, for a while, an owl also came to visit every evening at dusk.
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It would sit in a tree right outside our living room window, and seemed to divide his time by watching us, and watching the things out there, in the night. I thought then, and think now, that huge gray owl was as fascinated by use as we were by him.
As a young child I was fascinated by these bright, harmless frogs, and my grandmother would frequently pluck one from the window and try to get me to hold it.
Sometimes I would, but mostly I liked to cling to her arm while it hopped about. After a few minutes we’d release it back into the hot, humid night.
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I think of being safe and cool and bright inside behind the big glass windows with my grandmother, innocently fascinated by the hot wet world outside.
Now that I’m older I know there are a lot of different kinds of dumplings out there, and I like many of them.
I adored dumplings growing up. Now, I know how rich they are, and I know this isn’t a meal we should be indulging in often. In fact, in the decade I’ve been vegetarian, I have not eaten dumplings.
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If you get them out in a restaurant they are just not going to be vegetarian. And when I was single – well, I certainly wasn’t going to make a pot of these just for myself.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t indulge on occasion. And, when I discovered my British husband had never had these – well, I knew it was time.
And friends, my husband is IN LOVE with these vegetarian chicken and dumplings. He even asked me to make them for his upcoming birthday.
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I had the entire meal ready in 30 minutes, but it makes enough that we were able to eat from this one meal for at least three dinners and two lunches. I kept our portions reasonable by pairing it with a salad. This is hearty, creamy, and comforting, so even with a one cup portion it still was filling and delicious.
I packed this pot full of carrots and peas. In another round, I actually added in some fennel. I will actually put in a ton of broccoli and kale next time, along with carrots.
In any case, this Vegetarian Chicken and Dumplings recipe is easily adaptable for added vegetables to fill it out and add in a bit more nutrition.
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