Homemade Chicken and Dumplings

Ingredients 

2 cups Flour

½ teaspoon Baking Powder

1 pinch Salt

2 Tablespoons Butter

½ cup Milk

½ cup buttermilk*

2 quarts Chicken Broth

3 cups Cooked Chicken

Freshly ground pepper and salt

Directions 

In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Cut the butter into the dry ingredients with a fork or pastry blender. Stir in the milk and buttermilk, mixing with a fork until the dough forms a ball.

Heavily flour a work surface. You’ll need a rolling pin and something to cut the dumplings with. I used a pizza cutter. I also like to use a small spatula to lift the dumplings off the cutting surface.

Roll the dough out thin with a heavily floured rolling pin. Dip your cutter in flour and cut the dumplings in squares about 2″x2″. It’s okay for them not to be exact. Some will be bigger, some smaller, some shaped funny.

Use the floured spatula to put them on a heavily floured plate. Keep flouring between the layers of dumplings.

To cook them, bring the broth to a boil. Drop the dumplings in one at a time, stirring while you add them. The extra flour on them will help thicken the broth. Cook them for about 15-20 minutes or until they are not doughy tasting. Add the cooked chicken to the pot and you’re done! Serve and sprinkle with salt and pepper as desired.

*If you don't have buttermilk, 1 cup milk will work fine. I had some buttermilk on hand and decided to use milk and buttermilk.

Adapted from Tasty Kitchen

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