Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumpling Recipe

A homemade, easy Old Fashioned Chicken and Dumplings recipe that is both comforting and tasty! Warm broth with tender chicken and buttery, pillowy dumplings.

Course Dinner

Cuisine American, Southern

Keyword chicken and dumplings, chicken and dumplings recipe, easy chicken and dumplings

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 1

Total Time 1 10

Servings servings

Calories 371kcal

Author Katie Cooksey

Ingredients

4 tbsp olive oil
1 whole chicken broken down into pieces, sometimes called a fryer chicken
1 large onion diced
1/2 lb carrots sliced into coins
8 cups chicken broth
salt to taste
black pepper to taste
1/4 tsp ground thyme
1/4 tsp poultry seasoning
1/4 tsp tarragon
1 tsp garlic powder
2 bay leaves
chives for garnish (optional)

For the Dumplings

2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
4 tbsp melted butter or shortening
1 cup buttermilk

Instructions

Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large pot. Sprinkle chicken pieces with salt and pepper and brown in batches: half of the chicken at a time, browning both sides well. Add additional 2 tablespoons olive oil in the pot to brown the second batch of chicken.
Remove chicken and sauté onion and carrots until the onions start to become tender, 3 minutes or so. Add chicken back into the pot and cover with chicken broth. Add in thyme, poultry seasoning, tarragon, garlic powder, bay leaves, and salt and pepper to taste.
Cover and bring to boil. Reduce heat to simmer and cook for 40 minutes or until chicken is completely cooked through.
Remove chicken pieces and shred, discarding extra fat and bones. Add chicken pieces back into the pot.
To make the dumplings, whisk flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda together until well mixed. Pour in melted butter and buttermilk and stir until just combined.
Drop by the large tablespoon into the simmering pot. Dumplings will be done when they are puffed and floating, after about 3 minutes.
Taste broth and adjust seasonings as needed. Serve hot.

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