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If you are yearning for a meal to take you back to your childhood, this is the one! You can almost smell Granny's Chicken & Dumplings just reading this! Chicken and veggies are slowly simmered in a delicious thick broth, then the dumpling batter is dolloped on top and steamed to fluffy perfection. Alone or with a fresh salad from items from her garden, Granny's Chicken & Dumplings take you back to when meals were truly special and welcome events... especially at Granny's!
If you are yearning for a meal to take you back to your childhood, this is the one! You can almost smell Granny's Chicken & Dumplings just reading this! Chicken and veggies are slowly simmered in a delicious thick broth, then the dumpling batter is dolloped on top and steamed to fluffy perfection. Alone or with a fresh salad from items from her garden, Granny's Chicken & Dumplings take you back to when meals were truly special and welcome events... especially at Granny's!
Ingredients
- 5 tablespoons cold unsalted butter divided
- 1 small yellow onion minced
- 1 stalk celery thinly sliced
- 2 carrots medium-diced
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour divided
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups chicken cooked and diced
- 1/3 pound green beans trimmed, cut into 1-inch pieces
- table salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
- 1/2 cup whole milk
- fresh chives optional, to taste, for garnish
Directions
- In a large saucepan over medium-high heat, melt 3 tablespoons of the butter.
- Add the onions, the celery, and the carrots to the melted butter and cook, while stirring frequently, until the onions are translucent, about 4 minutes.
- Add 1/4 cup of the flour to the onion mixture and cook, while stirring constantly, until the raw flour smell disappears, about 1 minute.
- Gradually add the chicken broth to the onion mixture, while stirring constantly, and bring the mixture to a boil.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer the onion mixture until thickened slightly, about 5 minutes.
- Add the chicken, the green beans, the table salt, and the black pepper to the onion mixture and stir to combine.
- In a large bowl, add the remaining flour, the baking powder, the coarse salt, and the parsley and whisk to combine.
- Add the remaining cold butter to the flour mixture and cut it in with a fork to combine.
- Add the milk to the flour mixture and stir to combine into a batter.
- With a large spoon, drop the batter mixture over top of the chicken mixture.
- Cover the saucepan and simmer until the dumplings are cooked through and a toothpick inserted into the center of the largest dumpling comes out almost clean, about 12 minutes.
- Serve topped with the chives.
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