Dumpling soup
From bojangles42 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Grandma Snyder used to make a soup that was creamy and ripe with onion and bacon smells and tastes. This is the closest I come to duplicating that and I have added spaetzle dumplings for some added body. Feel free to add or subtract the the types of vegetables used.
Ingredients
- 4 c. chicken broth or vegetable broth shopping list
- 2 stalks celery slice in 1/2" pieces shopping list
- 2 carrots sliced in 1/2" pieces shopping list
- 1 med onion coarsely chopped shopping list
- 8 oz button mushrooms sliced shopping list
- 2 small red potatoes, washed and piced in 1/2" cubes shopping list
- 3 rashers bacon sliced into 1/2 pieces shopping list
- 1 c flour shopping list
- 1 egg, beaten shopping list
- 1 c milk or cream (I use skim milk or evaporated skim milk, always watching the calories) shopping list
- 1/2 teas salt shopping list
- salt and pepper to taste shopping list
- 1/2 c cold water shopping list
How to make it
- In the soup pot, fry the bacon until almost crisp.
- Remove the bacon pieces and drain all but 1 teas of the rendered fat
- Add the onion and saute for 2 minutes stirring often
- Add the stock
- Add the celery, mushroom, carrots, and potatoes
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Bring to a boil and reduce to a slow simmer
- Cook until the vegetables are tender
- Combine the egg, flour, 1/2 teas salt, and 1/4 c of the water.
- Mix well, add more water if needed to form a sticky, thick paste
- Bring the soup back to a boil and drop the dumpling mixture one teas teaspoon and a time into the soup (use two spoons, one to scoop the batter and the other to help drop if off the spoon. The dumpling should double in size, so don't make them too big or you will end up with big chewy balls)
- The dumplings will cook quickly and float to the surface,
- Add the bacon and the milk/cream
- Simmer for 5 minutes and check the salt and pepper
- Grandma always put a small pat of butter on the soup when it was served.
- Leftover diced chicken is a good addition too.
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