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Chicken & Dumplings

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Prep Time: 30 minutes or less | Cook Time: 3+ hours | Serves: 8
Dinner » Crockpot » American
Visual Recipe By: digi


Ingredients:

The Hen

Ok! So! What you need is:
2-3lb hen...check inside the hen for the bag of giblets (don't throw away...great for seasoning the chicken broth.)

Put the chicken in the crock pot with the giblets (should be a heart-gizzard-liver and neck, you don't have to eat these, just use for seasoning) add salt and pepper...cook for 6-7 hours on high.

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Step 1:

The Dumplings

some people roll out their own dumplings and some buy them frozen, if you do buy frozen (ANN'S is the best...taste like home made) I personally don't like to mead out doe, so i learned a little trick using frozen biscuits.

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Step 2:


I thaw em out and spread some flower out on the rolling surface to that it don't stick and cut out my dumplings that way.

Then roll out the dumplings and cut them out,

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Step 3:

put them in the freezer for about 30 min or so, to stiffen.

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Step 4:

Seperate Chicken

When the chicken is done, use as much or as little chicken as you like and as big or small chuncks as you like. I only use a small amout of chicken for mine.

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Step 5:

I'll take a large amout of the chicken and put in the fridge to make chicken salad later.

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Step 6:

Add Dumplings

Now! you have your broth and chicken at a nice rumbling crock pot style boil. Drop the dumplings in one at a time...really! one at a time! This is a must. almost immediately you will see the dumplings get puffy, this means they are done

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Step 7:

don't waste any time after you drop in the last dumpling in, transfer chicken & dumplings into another serving container. do not allow pastry to keep cooking for much longer after you drop in the last dumpling * That is very important.

Thats it.

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User Comments for Chicken & Dumplings:

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This turned out good at my Pot Luck today, however I did need to add chicken broth. The chicken by itself does not make enough broth to be able to boil the dumplings. I also seasoned the chicken with garlic powder, salt and pepper.
Comment from: Loves2Cook  Date Posted: 20-Dec-2006