My mom’s chicken and dumplings is my all-time favorite meal. It’s good when I make it, but better when Mom makes it! Either way, when it’s cold and nasty outside (like it has been on and off all winter!), this 45-minute dinner is the perfect ‘warm my soul’ meal!
It has taken my kids awhile to ‘warm up’ (haha, get it!) to eating chicken and dumplings, but now they are finally on board! My husband enjoys his soup (can we call it soup?) with crackers, but I like mine without. He also adds extra salt & pepper after his bowl has been dished.
To be quite honest, I love the flavor that the chicken gives this recipe, but I don’t actually enjoy the chunks in my bowl so I pick them out.
Chicken and Dumplings #Recipe
Ingredients
For the soup:
- 3-5 Raw Chicken Breasts cubed
- 8-10 Hard-Boiled Eggs diced
- Salt & Pepper to taste
For the dumplings:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup shortening or butter
- 3/4 cup milk
Instructions
Dumpling Preparation:
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Put flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl. Cut in the shortening (or butter) until it looks like meal. Stir in the milk.
How To:
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Fill a large pot with water. Add cubed chicken, salt & pepper. Boil about 30 minutes.
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After about 20 minutes, make your dumpling dough.
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Drop spoonfuls of the dumpling mixture into the chicken water.
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Cover and cook for about 15 minutes. Stir gently every once in awhile (you don't want to break your dumplings, but you don't want them to stick to the bottom of the pot).
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Uncover, add eggs and cook another 15 minutes. Stir gently every 5 minutes or so.
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Serve & Enjoy!
Recipe Notes
I (at least) double the dumplings recipe because that's the part everyone wants!
You could add frozen veggies before you drop the dumplings if you wanted, or serve it with a side salad.
I mostly make this meal in the winter because eating something so warm in the summer doesn’t sound appetizing, but it’s so delicious and makes me feel like I’m a kid all over again! I wish I wanted to eat it year-round!
We love Chicken and Dumplings, but we cheat! We used canned biscuits and pinch off dumplings and drop them in.
I have always loved chicken and dumplings, but have never made it at home, I would love to try this I am sure my family would enjoy it a lot.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen hard boiled eggs in chicken and dumplings. Definitely an interesting twist!
Wow, I’ve never seen a CnD recipe that uses boiled eggs, but I’ll have to try it. We love CnD around here, especially my former MIL’s recipe. ANd right now with this endless winter? Well, hot, comfort food is a good thing!
I’ve never eaten chicken ‘n’ dumplings with hard boiled eggs in it before. Interesting! I’ll have to try it.
It is a cold day here. It would be great to warm up a bowl of this soup for sure!
This is a perfect winter meal. It warms the body up and it doesn’t take much of it to make a person feel full and completely satisfied. I love your recipe too. It looks delicious.
I want some of this right now! It is so cold outside.
I’m not great at shortening recipes, but this sounds amazing! Especially since it’s so cold!!!
I used to love chicken dumplings but I haven’t had them in ages!! I’ll definitely be trying this recipe soon. Thank you so much for sharing your family recipe!
I used to make a batch and freeze them so my daughter could take them to college with her when she visited on weekends.
SMART! I should do that and use them for lunches!
We love chicken and dumplings in our home.
We love chicken and dumplings – one of my fave cold weather meals! I’ve never put hard boiled eggs in mine though, I’ll have to try that out.
Here in New England dumplings aren’t very popular… maybe it’s time I try some.
REALLY?! Definitely try them!
I love chicken and dumplings but I haven’t eaten them for so long! I may just need to make this to warm up my belly in this cold weather.
Yum. This looks good. I’ve never attempted to make it at home though.
I have never heard of adding hard boiled eggs to a chicken and dumpling recipe. With as much as we love hard boiled eggs, I’m sure it would go over really well!
This is without a doubt my FAV meal growing up! My mom used to make homemade noodles
Looks like the perfect way to warm up on these chilly days!
This sounds soo good! Too bad it’s well past dinner time!
I’m funny like that with chicken too. I usually search for them and give them all to whomever is having dinner with me. lol It sounds yummy though!
I love chicken and dumplings. I haven’t had it for years!
Yum! This is my husband’s favorite meal. I cant wait to try this recipe
That looks really good. I’ve never heard of this recipe with hard boiled eggs though.
Ooooh these sound so yummy and perfect for this crazy cold weather.
I have GOT to find a way to make these gluten free. This looks SO GOOD 🙂
I am sure there is a way! Maybe there is a GF Bisquick mix?
this is so good to have right now for Michigan weather, yum! Reminds me of my grandmas chicken n dumplings.
I have always cheated with the dumplings and used canned biscuits. I going to take your dumpling recipe and make some next round. Thanks for sharing.