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Southern Chicken N Dumplins Recipe


Southern Chicken N Dumplins Recipe
Just a good southern country recipe I learned from watching my grandmother.

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Ingredients
  • 1 whole chicken cut up
  • 4 cups self rising flour
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable shortning
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)

Directions
  1. put the flour in a large bowl then add the vegetable shortning
  2. Cut the shortning in with a fork untill you achieve a grainy look
  3. Add the buttermilk a little at a time untill you have a good stiff dough
  4. Put a clean tablecloth on your table and sprinkle with flour
  5. Transfer the dough to the table and fold and knead 15 - 20 times
  6. roll the dough out on the tablecloth as thin as possible without tearing
  7. with a pizza cutter cut the dough into 1 - 1 1/2 inch strips then cut the strips 2 1/2 - 3 inches long
  8. Let the strips sit overnight (or 10 - 12 hours) to dry.
  9. fill a large stew pot with 8-10 cups hot water and add the chicken,butter,salt, and pepper
  10. bring to boil and lower heat and cook 1 hour or untill chicken pulls easily from the bone
  11. Remove the chicken and strain the remaining broth and return broth to the stew pot.
  12. bring to a boil and drop dumpling strips into the broth. reduce heat to medium low and cook for 45 min or untill dumplings are tender.
  13. While the dumplings are cooking de- bone the chicken and cut into bite size pieces.
  14. When the dumplings are done stir in the chicken and let sit to thicken 15 to 20 min.

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Comments


Grandma new what she was doing, sounds wonderful!


Love dumplins, definitely saving this one - the dough sounds wonderful; thanks so much! ^5
Deb


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