Green Bean Dumpling Soup

Submitted by duonyte

"Posted in response to a request for a soup popular in Kansas. The recipe was found in a Colorado paper, but by a Kansas chef. I have not made this, see notes below for additional comments. Prep time is estimated."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 10mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Serves: 6

ingredients

• 2 cups cubed potatoes
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 43 ounces chicken stock or 43 ounces vegetable broth
• 2 cups green beans
• 1 tablespoon chopped garlic
• 1⁄2 medium onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon margarine
• 24 24 ounces half-and-half or 24 ounces cream
• dumplings
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup flour
• milk

directions

1. In a large soup kettle, saute potatoes in oil for about 10 minutes, stirring often. Add stock and beans and cook until tender.
2. In a saucepan, melt the butter or margarine and saute the onion and garlic until translucent. Add the flour and cook for three minutes longer. With a whisk, stir in the milk and keep whisking until the mixture is thickened. Set aside.
3. While the soup is simmering, prepare the dumplings. Blend the flour and the egg. Add milk until a thick, doughy mixture is made. You can add salt to taste. Drop the dumplings by a teaspoon into the boiling broth. Whisk the milk and flour mixture into the soup. Add milk or cream as needed to adjust the consistency.
4. Note: The measurements are rather inexact. My own thought is that you probably need 3 tbsp butter and 3 tbsp flour in the roux to make a thickener that would thicken this amount of liquid adequately. The forum poster found the soup too thin. The dumplings were described as tasty, but heavy, and you might want to substitute your own favorite recipe.

Reviews

[ellie_]

This is okay but is a bit thin as is stated. I used both vegetable and beef broth for the broth. It is a good end of the week recipe to use up some veggies. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Aubrey Fisher]

Very close to what I'm used to!

 

[joan_56377]

Delicious, I can't wait to make it again.

 

[Lorrie in Montreal]

Made for 123 tag. I have never made dumplings before so I have nothing to compare it to...I liked this homey soup very much...I'm a huge fan of green beans so it was hard not to love it.LOL

 

[CrashQueen]

This soup is a traditional volga-german immigrant meal. As such, each cook had their own version and it was never exact (little of this, pinch of that). I learned my version from my own volga-german immigrant-descended grandmother and the soup is meant to be on the thin side, and the dumplings a bit on the heavier side, but never gummy. I have to try this version as ours never used chicken broth, rather heavy cream (gasp! the calories!) and aprox three or four cups of the water left over after you boiled your potatoes.