Grandma's chicken and dumplings. Slightly beat egg and milk together in a separate bowl. Add to flour mixture and stir to form a ball of dough. Place onto a floured surface; knead and roll as thin as possible using a floured rolling pin.
I know a lot of people make big puffy biscuit-like "dumplings", but this is how my Grandma made Southern-style chicken n' dumplings, and that is why they look like large noodles.
I start by blending flour, salt, and shortening together using a pastry cutter, cutting it in until the shortening is the size of small peas.
For the chicken: Heat oil in a large Dutch oven or large covered skillet.
You can have Grandma's chicken and dumplings using 4 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Grandma's chicken and dumplings
- It's 4 large of chicken breast.
- Prepare 1 can of cream of chicken soup.
- It's 6 cup of water.
- Prepare 4 can of biscuits.
Place the chicken in a stockpot and pour enough stock just to cover. Add celery, carrots, onion, salt, garlic, bay leaf, pepper and mace. Pillowy soft homemade dumplings, rich and hearty chicken soup make up my Grandma's Famous Chicken and Dumplings recipe! So as many of you long time TKW Family members know, my Grandma was one amazing woman.
Grandma's chicken and dumplings instructions
- boil chicken then shred it..
- add all other ingredients and boil add the four cans of biscuits.
Then remove the chicken and remove the skin. While the chicken is cooking, make the dumplings. Add the dumplings to the boiling broth a few at a time. Scrape any extra flour and dough and add to the broth. Stir to prevent the dumplings from sticking.