Chicken and Dumpling Stew
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 4 quarts chicken stock (I use homemade-not sure of the canned conversion amount)
- 1 lb red potatoes
- 1 lb carrot
- 2 stalks celery
- 1 cup shredded chicken (I often don't use any)
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch, mixed in cold water
-
Dumplings
- 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3 teaspoons shortening
- 3⁄4 cup buttermilk (you can mix 1 t vinegar and 1 c milk if you don't have butter milk)
- 1 teaspoon parsley
directions
- Cut the carrots, celery and potatoes up any way you like, as long as they end up in bite-sized pieces.
- Add the stock, along with the vegetables and chicken to a large pot.
- Put over low heat for 2 hours. (This can be shortened to 1 hour, but will sacrifice some flavor.).
- Ten minutes before you want to serve, turn up the heat to medium-high and make the dumplings: cut the shortening into the flour until the lumps of shortening are pea-sized or smaller. Sprinkle in the buttermilk; mix with a fork until the flour holds together. Form into a ball and pinch pieces of dough off and drop into the stew. Cook for approximately 5 minutes, or until all the dough pieces float to the surface.
- Add the cornstarch-and-water mixture and stir until thickened.
- Serve!
- Note: if you're planning on saving this for leftovers, either use less cornstarch or none at all-it will congeal in the fridge and not liquefy again.
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