Cream of Chicken Soup With Truffle Dumplings
- Ready In:
- 1hr 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 17
- Serves:
-
30
ingredients
- 1 gallon chicken stock
- 1 1⁄2 quarts chicken stock
- 1 whole organic chicken, 4 lbs
- 1 bunch flat leaf parsley
- 1 bunch tarragon
- 1 head garlic, whole
- 2 ounces butter
- 1 onion, diced small
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 2 celery root, bulbs diced
- 2 ounces flour
- 2 carrots, diced small
- 1⁄2 golf ball sized truffle, grated (frozen is ok)
- 1 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1⁄2 cup milk
- 1 egg
- salt and pepper
directions
- Stuff cavity of chicken with herbs and garlic and tie legs with twine to close the cavity.
- Bring one gallon of stock to a simmer in a large pot. Add stuffed chicken.
- Simmer 35 minutes Remove chicken and reserve. Reserve stock separately.
- Use same stock pot to make a roux: Melt butter over medium-low heat, add diced onions and cook til translucent -- stir in the 2 oz flour until mixture turns light tan.
- Whisk in the heavy cream and the stock 1/3 C at a time.
- Add carrots and celery to soup. Simmer for 45 minutes
- While soup simmers, remove skin and bones from chicken and discard. Chop meat and reserve.
- For Dumplings: Mound the flour in a mixing bowl and make a well in the center.
- Whisk the eggs and milk together and gradually pour into flour. Use a fork to mix as your pour, taking care not to over mix.
- Add grated truffle.
- In medium saucepan, bring remaining 1 1/2 qts of stock to a rolling boil. Use two pastry scrapers to make the dumplings by spooning a mound of dough onto one and then cutting small sections of the dough into the stock with the other. Cook dumplings in small batches, simmering 3 to 5 minutes or until they float to the top.
- Remove dumplings with a slotted spoon and add the soup, followed by shredded chicken.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste.
- Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with shaved truffle and freshly chopped parsley and serve.
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