big thicket chicken and dumplings

🥘 Ingredients

• • whole chickens
• • water
• • poultry seasoning
• • garlic powder
• • black pepper
• • red pepper
• • celery ribs
• • green onions
• • carrot
• • chicken bouillon cubes
• • flour
• • baking powder
• • salt
• • margarine
• • eggs
• • chicken stock

📝 Instructions

1. 1 place whole chicken and water into large pot or dutch oven
2. 2 add poultry seasoning , garlic powder& pepper
3. 3 bring to boil and reduce heat to medium
4. 4 cook chicken for about 1 hour or until tender
5. 5 when done , carefully remove chicken from pot
6. 6 set aside to cool
7. 7 remove 2 cups of stock and set aside to cool
8. 8 add celery , onion , carrot and bouillon cubes to remaining stock and continue to cook on simmer
9. 9 while chicken is cooling , prepare dumplings
10. 10 into large mixing bowl , combine flour , baking powder , poultry seasoning and salt
11. 11 add margarine and combine until mixture is coarse and crumbly
12. 12 add eggs and cooled chicken stock then stir by hand to form a dough
13. 13 turn out onto floured surface and knead slightly until smooth
14. 14 you may need to divide dough in half and only roll out half at a time
15. 15 roll out to approximately 1 / 8-inch thickness
16. 16 using a sharp knife or pizza cutter , cut dough in vertical strips about an inch wide
17. 17 then repeat the process , cutting horizontal strips , which will give you little square dumplings
18. 18 return chicken stock to a boil
19. 19 drop dumplings in , a few at a time , as quickly as possible
20. 20 cook about 15 minutes , stirring occasionally to prevent dumplings from sticking to bottom of pan
21. 21 when done , remove from heat and cover pan
22. 22 remove skin and debone cooled chicken
23. 23 cut into bite size pieces then fold into hot dumplings & broth
24. 24 this recipe will serve a family of 4 two main course meals
25. 25 leftovers can be frozen