mommas homemade dumplings for chicken and dumplings

Ingredients mommas homemade dumplings for chicken and dumplings

dumplings
4 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp onion OR garlic powder (optional)
1 tsp salt
1/2 cup shortnening or lard
1 1/2 cup chicken broth (atleast room tenp
broth
1 ***** 6 cups of FLAVORFUL CHICKEN BROTH from my profile...
1/2 can cream of chicken soup

how to make mommas homemade dumplings for chicken and dumplings

Mix all dry ingredients together... you can sift them together if you like....

Add broth... 1 cup.... and then add the other 1/2 cup a little at a time... u may not need it all..

Mix until it makes a ball of dough....

I wrap mine in plastic wrap.... put it in Ziploc bag and refrigerate...

I make it about 2-3 days before the holiday.. when your ready sit out dough for about 30 minutes and let it get room temp..

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Cut the dough evenly into.3 pieces.....

Lightly flour your work surface and rub your rolling pin with flour

Roll the dough out to 1/4" thick..... dust lightly with flour....cut dough into square dumplings..

* to freeze put a piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet... put dumplings on the wax paper..... lay a piece of wax paper on the top.and then lay another single layer of dumplings... keep repeating this procedure... mine sometime is 4-5 layers high....

Roll out more dough.... and our on wax paper..... do this til ALL THE DOUGH....is rolled out.... I only do 1/3 of the dough at a time because it is easier to.handle....

Lay a sheet of waxpaper on the top to keep dumplings from drying out while they freeze....

** because I have an impairment... I make these and freeze for the holidays...

After frozen I put the dumplings in a freezer bag..... sprinkle flour lightly on top of dumplings and shake freezer bag until lightly coated...

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Put 1 cup of cold chicken broth in reserve

Heat the remainder of the FLAVOFUL CHICKEN BROTH..... add cream of chicken soup. bring to a boil..... add dumplings...ONE AT A TIME....or they will stick into a mess!!!!

Take 2 TBSP of flour and mix in broth u left reserved should be cold....mix with fork until flour is dissolved.... add to hot dumplings.... stir to thinken let cook for 10 minutes... dumplings should be done...

* again because of my impairment I make dumplings by large batches and freeze...... I feed a family of 4..... two times with this dumpling recipe....

Only use about 1/2 of the batch of the dumplings for a family of 4....