Southern
Chicken and Dumplings
Chicken and Dumplings is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 onion
- 3 carrots
- 3 celery stalks
- 3 garlic cloves
- 3 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 6 cups chicken broth
- 1 tsp dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 2 cups all-purpose flour for dumplings
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- 4 tbsp butter for dumplings
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 1.5 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Melt the butter in a large pot over medium and cook the onion, carrots, celery, and garlic until soft, about 7 minutes.
- Sprinkle in the 3 tbsp flour for 1 minute, then whisk in the broth, thyme, bay leaf, and 1 tsp salt.
- Add the chicken thighs, bring to a simmer, and cook until tender, about 15 minutes, then remove, shred, and return the meat with the peas.
- For the dumplings, cut the 4 tbsp butter into the 2 cups flour, baking powder, and remaining salt, then stir in the milk to make a soft dough.
- Drop spoonfuls of dough over the simmering stew, cover tightly, and cook without lifting the lid until the dumplings are puffed and cooked through, about 15 minutes.
- Discard the bay leaf and serve in deep bowls.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken and Dumplings, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken and Dumplings carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Cajun Jambalaya |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, Dairy, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken and Dumplings takes about 60 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in the fall and winter, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, dumpling, and carrot.
From the same kitchens
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Does the same job on the plate
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Cook this with your whole family
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