Easy Chicken and Dumplings Recipe

Easy Chicken and Dumplings Recipe

Dinner
30 min
296 kcal / serving

An Easy Chicken and Dumplings Recipe that's creamy, delicious and made in just 30 minutes. The perfect dish to enjoy on a chilly night.

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoonsunsalted butter
  • 1 smallonion (diced)
  • 2 smallcarrots (peeled and diced)
  • 2celery stalks (trimmed and diced)
  • 1 tablespoonminced thyme
  • 3 ½ tablespoonsall-purpose flour
  • 2 ½ cupshigh quality chicken stock
  • ½ cupmilk
  • 2 cupscooked and shredded chicken
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1 ¼ cupsall-purpose flour
  • 1 tablespoonthinly sliced chives
  • 2 teaspoonsminced thyme
  • 1 teaspoonbaking powder
  • 1 teaspoonsalt
  • 2 tablespoonsunsalted and melted butter
  • ⅝ cupmilk

Directions

Soup

  1. 1

    Place a large pot over medium-high heat and melt butter.

  2. 2

    Add onion, carrot and celery and sauté for 4 to 5 minutes or until vegetables soften. Season with salt and pepper.

  3. 3

    Add thyme and continue to cook mixture for another minute.

  4. 4

    Sprinkle flour over mixture and stir together until mixture is well coated and no dry spots remain.

  5. 5

    Stir in broth and lower heat to medium. Continue to stir together until mixture thickens and is smooth.

  6. 6

    Stir in milk, season with salt and pepper and simmer until soup is thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon.

  7. 7

    Fold in Chicken.

Dumplings

  1. 1

    In a mixing bowl whisk together flour, chives, thyme, baking powder, and salt.

  2. 2

    Add butter and continue to stir together until mixture is crumbly.

  3. 3

    Stir in milk until mixture just comes together into a thick batter.

  4. 4

    Scoop 3 heaping tablespoon sized scoops of batter into the soup until all batter has been used. Cover pot and simmer for 12 to 15minute until dumplings have puffed up and just cooked through.

  5. 5

    Uncover, season with salt and pepper, gently stir, and top with thyme and chives.

  6. 6

    Ladle into bowls, top with more thyme and chives and serve.