It is officially fall. It didn't get above 60 degrees here today. Brrrrrr! We have not yet turned on the furnace, but it won't be long. There is officially snow in the mountains - beautiful to look at, but kind of ruining that reddish-orange tint that I've been enjoying. With the rain and the cold comes one of my favorite things: soup! And, you can't have soup without homemade bread. We had broccoli cheese soup on Monday with homemade honey-wheat bread. Tonight it was chicken and dumplings...simply delicious! It's been requested to share the recipe, so here goes:
Chicken and Dumplings
6 cups chicken broth (3 cans) OR 6 c. water + 6 chicken bouillon cubes
1 whole chicken, boiled and shredded ** (see below)
1 c. sliced carrots (2-3 carrots)
3 ribs celery, chopped
1 onion, minced
2-3 cloves garlic
1 bay leaf
1 handful of chopped fresh parsley (or 1 Tbsp. dried parsley)
1/2 tsp. basil
1 14-oz. can evaporated milk
1 recipe of Bisquick dumplings **The horror, I know! Dumplings from a box! (2 c. Bisquick + 2/3 cup of milk)
In a large pot, heat some olive oil over medium heat and add onions and garlic. Saute for a few minutes and then add chicken broth, chicken, bay leaf, and basil. Bring to a boil. Add carrots and celery and reduce heat to a simmer. Cover and cook until carrots and celery are tender. When carrots and celery are almost done, add chopped parsley. *I never have fresh herbs, so I used dried and it was fine. Add evaporated milk. Increase heat to boiling and add prepared Bisquick by large spoonfuls (they'll really puff up while they're cooking). Cook uncovered for about 10 minutes and then cover and cook for an additional 10 minutes. I also used a little flour to thicken before I added the dumplings.
**For the chicken I used 1 whole cut-up chicken. Added enough water to cover it and threw in some carrots, onion, celery and salt/pepper. Brought to a boil and then turned down to a simmer for about 45 min. I then strained the stock (Save it and use as the chicken stock in recipe!) and shredded the chicken. Do not re-use the vegetables. Just toss out. When I added the stock to the recipe above, I added a few chicken bouillon cubes to increase the chicken flavor.
It was truly a yummy dinner (or as they say in NoDak, "supper") and everyone gobbled it up. I was hoping for some leftovers for tomorrow, but sadly we ate almost the entire pot! Sometime in the near future, I will post my other favorite soup: Grandma Lueck's Knoefla Soup (pronounced neff-la)....my mouth is watering just thinking about it. And, if you're not from NoDak, or Norwegian, you will just have to wait and see exactly what a knoefla is!!
Brielle Gymnastics
8 years ago
6 comments:
Erin in the kitchen is m-m-m good. Thanks for sharing. I shall give it a go. Dumplings. What a beautiful food:)
Sounds delish! Bring on the knoefla!
Sounds yummy, I will have to give it a try!
Erin, Looks good!
And I get the Hershey's syrup from Costco of course! We go through it really fast. I had to mail order the pump though. Once I lucked out and Costco had some pumps there, but that was super unusual! So if you buy that you have to figure out a way to get the syrup out conviently, or wait (seriously) 8 weeks for the pump to arrive. I don't know, but we needed it, and it was worth the wait. The pump also makes it kinda tall, so it is hard to find a spot for it in the fridge. But again...worth it. Eli is a Chocolate Milk addict. He loves it. He would just have it and only it, if he could (and sadly there are days where that probably is what he mostly had). But it is a life saver for me. He also loves Mickey Mouse Club House. Cute show huh? I love Disney Channel aka: the baby sitter!
Yummy!! I love it too, but my kids don't. :(
I was visiting Kristi this week and we made chicken and dumplings, or "C & D" as Uncle Lynn used to call it. It was one of his favorites so I made it on his birthday in remembrance of him (October 7th, he would have been 60). My recipe is one I found on a Bisquick box years ago when the kids were small. It was really delicious and I always make my dumplings with Bisquick. They are the best!
Post a Comment