Chicken and Dumplings

Ingredients:

3 cups chicken, cooked and shredded (I use one full bag of frozen tenderloins 2.5lbs)

2 quarts chicken broth

2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

2 tbsp. salted butter, cubed

milk (a little less than a cupful)

Directions:

Cook and shred chicken. 

I cook my chicken in water, with a few celery stalks, poultry seasoning, garlic powder, thyme, salt and pepper. Once the chicken is cooked I strain and add to chicken broth.

 

Make dumplings,

In a medium bowl, combine flour and baking powder and cubed butter with either a fork, pastry cutter, or your fingers
I also like to add a bit of garlic powder and thyme probably about 1/4 tsp of each

Add milk

Dust your counter with a generous amount of flour

Place your dumpling dough on the counter and dust it with more flour

Roll out and cut dough into squares (about bite size)

Add shredded chicken to broth
Heat up broth to a boil

Drop dumplings in 1 at a time to prevent them sticking together, stir often

Cook 15-20 minutes, until dumpling dough does not taste doughy, and broth has thickened