These Homemade Chicken and Dumplings are filled with tender chicken, and fluffy homemade biscuit dumplings, and cooked in a flavorful broth. It's made with a few simple ingredients and comes together so quickly! This is the perfect comfort food for a cold winter day.
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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
- It's made with simple ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry.
- The dumplings are so fluffy and delicious!
- It's also the perfect way to warm up on a chilly day.
If there's one food that can make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, it's chicken and dumplings. This classic comfort food is the perfect dish to enjoy on a cold day. And this recipe is sure to become a family favorite! The best part? It's really easy to make.
🛒 Ingredients
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Note: The full list of this Chicken and Dumplings recipe ingredients with their amounts and options are listed in the recipe card below.
Soup:
- butter, salted or unsalted
- yellow onion, chopped
- carrots, cut into matchsticks
- celery, diced
- garlic, minced
- flour, all-purpose
- evaporated milk
- chicken stock
- shredded cooked chicken
- dried thyme or 1 Tablespoon if using fresh thyme
- cracked black pepper
- kosher salt to taste
Homemade dumplings:
- all-purpose flour (8 ¾oz.)
- baking powder
- black pepper, freshly cracked
- dried thyme or 1 Tablespoon if using fresh chopped thyme
- full-fat milk
- butter, melted
🗒 Instructions
Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the recipe card below.
- In a large Dutch oven or soup pot, melt butter over medium-high heat. Then, add onion, carrots, celery and sauté for 5 minutes, until the veggies soften. Once vegetables are soft, add garlic and cook for 1 more minute.
- Sprinkle in the flour and stir to combine. Cook for 1 minute.
- Pour in the evaporated milk and chicken stock stirring to combine.
- Bring to a boil then add the chicken, thyme, pepper, and salt. Let the soup simmer uncovered while you prepare the dumplings.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, pepper, kosher salt, and thyme.
- Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour the milk and butter into the center.
- Using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, stir together until a dough forms a ball. If the dough seems too dry, add an extra tablespoon of milk.
- Depending on the size of dumplings you want, use a medium-sized or large cookie scoop to scoop dough and drop the dumpling directly into the simmering soup. Once all the dough balls have been added, gently press them down in the soup so that the liquid runs over them.
- Place the lid on your Dutch oven or soup pot and lower the heat to a low simmer. (Be sure the soup keeps simmering so that the dumplings cook but not so high that the bottom of the soup burns.) Cook for 10 minutes, and gently stir the soup.
- Cut into one dumpling in half to make sure they are cooked all the way through. If the dumplings aren't done yet cook an additional 2-3 minutes. Serve hot with a sprinkle of fresh thyme.
🔪 Equipment
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🤔 FAQs
These are the questions we are most frequently asked about making Easy Homemade Chicken and Dumplings.
The excess flour from the dumplings should thicken your broth for you. However, if you need to thicken them you can use a cornstarch slurry.
We like to serve chicken and dumplings with a vegetable side dish such as green beans, okra, or even a side salad.
You can test if a dumpling is done by sticking it with a toothpick and if the center comes out clean then they are ready to serve.
Dumplings should be simmered for about 10 - 12 minutes.
Yes, when the dumplings are done they will float to the top of the broth.
👩🏻🍳 Tips
- Be sure to place them around the pot and not all in the same place. You don't want them forming one HUGE dumpling.
- If you find that your broth is thinner than you prefer you can thicken it with a cornstarch slurry.
- Try to make sure that your dumplings are even sized so that they cook at the same pace.
- Be gentle when you are stirring the dumplings as you don't want to break them apart when you are stirring them.
- You can use any type of neutral-flavored cooked chicken. This recipe is a great way to use up a leftover rotisserie chicken.
📚 Variations
- If you don't have chicken stock on hand, you can use chicken broth instead.
- Evaporated milk really gives these dumplings a rich and creamy taste and texture but if you don't have any on hand you can use regular milk or heavy cream instead.
- Celery would also be a great addition to this recipe.
- You could also add some frozen vegetables to this recipe such as peas, corn, or green beans.
- For a little bit of a different flavor, you could try using parsley, rosemary, or sage in place of the thyme.
- If you want to make this recipe vegetarian, you can use vegetable broth instead of chicken broth and leave out the chicken or add some cooked tofu crumbles.
🥫 Storage
This recipe will keep in the fridge for 3 days. Be sure to store it in an airtight container.
I recommend reheating these dumplings on the stovetop in a saucepan on medium-low heat until they are warm and bubbly.
📗 Related Recipes
- If you are looking for a simple chicken recipe to use to make this comforting chicken and dumplings recipe, then look no further than this Baked Chicken Breast recipe.
- There is nothing better than Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup on a cold winter day and this simple soup recipe will quickly become a go-to recipe for your entire family.
- This zesty Southwest Chicken Tortellini Soup will warm your tummy as well as your entire body. It's bursting with hot salsa and cheesy tortellini for a warm and comforting meal that your family will love.
🍽 Serve with
- These easy homemade soft breadsticks are light and fluffy, topped off with melted butter and garlic salt. These soft breadsticks pair so well with this comforting meal.
- This oven baked zucchini recipe is a simple yet flavorful vegetable side dish that your entire family will rave out.
- If you love the taste of a classic chocolate eclair, this Italian Love Cake is soon to become a favorite dessert recipe in your household. It's a great way to end this hearty meal.
📞 Chiacchierata (chat)
I'm not sure what's more comforting, the chicken or the dumplings. But together, they make an amazing dish that makes for an easy weeknight meal and will satisfy your entire family.
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📝 Recipe Card
Whether you're looking for a quick weeknight meal or a hearty weekend dinner, chicken and dumplings are sure to please. This comfort food meal is made with simple ingredients and comes together in under an hour.
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📖 Recipe
The Best Old Fashioned Homemade Chicken and Dumplings
Equipment Needed
- Dutch oven soup pot
Ingredients
Soup:
- 6 Tablespoons butter salted or unsalted
- 1 cup yellow onion chopped
- 1 cup carrots cut into matchsticks
- 1 cup celery diced
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 3 Tablespoons flour all purpose
- 12 oz. evaporated milk (1 can)
- 32 oz. chicken stock (1 quart)
- 4 cups shredded cooked chicken **(see notes)
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 Tablespoon if using fresh thyme
- 2 teaspoons cracked black pepper
- kosher salt to taste
Homemade dumplings:
- 2 cups all purpose flour (8 ¾oz.)
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon black pepper freshly cracked
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1 Tablespoon if using fresh chopped thyme
- ¾ cup full fat milk (6oz.)
- 4 Tablespoons butter melted
Instructions
Soup:
- In a large Dutch oven or soup pot, melt butter over medium-high heat.
- Add onion, carrots, celery and sauté for 5 minutes, until the veggies soften. Add garlic and cook for 1 more minute.
- Sprinkle in the flour and stir to combine. Cook for 1 minute.
- Pour in the evaporated milk and chicken stock stirring to combine.
- Bring to a boil then add the chicken, thyme, pepper, and salt. Let the soup simmer uncovered while you prepare the dumplings.
Homemade dumplings:
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, pepper, kosher salt, and thyme.
- Make a well in the middle of the flour mixture and pour in the milk and butter into the center.
- Using a rubber spatula or wooden spoon, stir together until dough forms a ball. If the dough seems too dry, add an extra tablespoon of milk.
- Depending on the size dumplings you want, use a medium sized or large cookie scoop to scoop dough and drop the dumpling directly into the simmering soup. ** see notes if using large scoop. Be sure to place them around the pot and not all in the same place. You don't want them forming one HUGE dumpling.
- Once all the dough balls have been added, gently press them down in the soup so that the liquid runs over them.
- Place the lid on your Dutch oven or soup pot and lower the heat to a low simmer. (Be sure the soup keeps simmering so that the dumplings cook but not so high that the bottom of the soup burns.)
- Cook for 10 minutes, gently stir the soup. Cut into one dumpling in half to make sure they are cooked all the way through.
- If the dumplings aren't done yet cook an additional 2-3 minutes. Serve hot with a sprinkle of fresh thyme.
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