How to Make Chicken and Dumplings (Simple Recipe)

A simple but tasty Chicken and Dumplings Recipe.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Get your ingredients together:
   2-pounds Leg Quarters
   4-Cans home style biscuits (You can use home made if you like)
   Large cooking Pot
   flour
   Pepper
   Garlic powder
   Water

2. Wash the leg quarters in the sink. Then place them into large cooking pot. Cover with water. Season with you pepper and garlic powder. Do not use a lot of garlic powder or it will taste like garlic. You just want a slight flavor.

3. Let the chicken boil until the meat is easy to pull away from the bone. Then remove the chicken from the water, and place in a colander. DO NOT THROW THE WATER OUT! Place the water back on the stove on medium heat. Run cold water over the chicken while you remove the bones. Save a few pieces of the skin, just to add a little flavor to the chicken and dumplings. After all of the bones are removed, place the chicken back in the water

4. In a small cup make a mixture of flour and water into a paste. You can always add more if you would like a thicker soup. When it has a smooth consistency you will pour the mixture into the water with the chicken.

5. Pour out a small amount of flour onto a dinner plate, then season with pepper. Now flatten a biscuit in your hand and roll in the flour. Pinch off small pieces and place into the water with the chicken. Continue until all biscuits are in. Cook for another 15-20 minutes on medium heat, then serve hot.
   
   This is a simple, but absolutely delicious chicken and dumplings recipe. You can make a lot in one day and freeze it. It tastes even better after freezing for a few days. You can also add a bag of frozen vegetables to it if you like. I prefer mine plain and simple.

[esatchel]

on 10/4/2009 Chicken and dumplings are a favorite. Good old fashioned food and not expensive! Thank you.