Chicken and Dumplings is the ultimate comfort food to get you through the winter made with homemade creamy broth and easy homemade dumplings.
This hearty Soup Recipe is warming and made with cozy flavors just like Classic Chicken Noodle Soup. It’s perfect for cold nights or when you’re feeling under the weather. Serve up a large bowl of soup and enjoy pure comfort.
Sabrina’s Chicken and Dumplings
This tasty soup is full of wonderful homemade flavors. The thick broth is made with homemade chicken stock, and the dumpling recipe is easy to make from scratch. It’s the perfect Easy Chicken and Dumpling recipe.
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Ingredients
Soup Base:
- 3 cups cooked chicken meat (from leftovers with carcass)
- 8 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups water
- 3 stalks celery , cut into 3-inch chunks
- 2 medium carrots , cut into 3-inch chunks
- 1 yellow onion , cut into wedges
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon dried rosemary
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
Soup Ingredients:
- 1 yellow onion , diced
- 3 stalks celery , thinly sliced
- 16 ounces frozen mixed vegetables , peas, carrots, corn and green beans
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
Dumpling Ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse ground black pepper
- 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
Instructions
- To a large stockpot add the chicken meat and carcass.
- Fill with chicken broth, water, celery, carrots, thyme, rosemary, oregano, bay leaves, salt, and pepper and stir well.
- Bring to a boil, then lower to a simmer and cook for 1 hour.
- Remove from heat and strain the chicken broth.
- Remove the chicken meat from the strained ingredients and chop into small chunks.
- Add the strained broth and chicken meat back to the pot with the diced onion, and sliced celery.
- Bring to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes while onions and celery become soft and translucent.
- While your soup is simmering, make the dumpling batter.
- To make the dumpling batter, sift the flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper into a large bowl.
- Whisk the heavy cream into the dry ingredients until combined.
- To the soup, add in the frozen mixed vegetables and heavy cream and stir.
- Add 1 heaping tablespoon of the dumpling batter onto the soup (do not let them touch), then simmer the soup for 15 minutes, covered, until the dumplings are cooked through.
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About This Recipe
Along with the dumplings and chicken, you get other wholesome ingredients like frozen peas, sweet carrots, celery, and warm seasonings. There’s nothing like a healthy bowl of piping hot chicken soup to give you all the warm fuzzy feelings even on the coldest evenings. Serve it up with some Buttermilk Biscuits for an easy dinner idea.
Chef’s Note
This is sure to become your favorite Chicken and Dumplings Recipe. Although the total time is over an hour, most of that is just letting the ingredients simmer together. Since you are using leftover cooked chicken, you don’t have to worry about baking the meat.
Tips and Tricks
The next time you make Slow Cooker Chicken Breast, Rotisserie Chicken, or Baked Chicken thighs, you can make this easy soup the next day. Just use the leftover chicken to make a whole new meal with minimal effort.
How to Store
- Serve: Don’t leave the chicken soup at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Store: Soup can be kept in the fridge for 3-4 days. Make sure it’s cooled completely, then store it in an airtight container.
- Freezer: You could also store it in an airtight container in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Alternative Cooking Techniques
Pressure Cooker
- Prepare the chicken broth as usual.
- Put the onion, and celery in the instant pot with olive oil and cook on sauté mode.
- Add the broth, chicken, and remaining ingredients to the instant pot.
- Seal and cook for 5 minutes.
- While it’s cooking, combine the dumpling ingredients.
- Allow pressure to release naturally for 10 minutes, then manually release it.
- Set back to sauté mode and add in the dumpling dough. Simmer until cooked through and serve.
Slow Cooker
- Prepare the broth, as usual, then add all but the dumplings to the slow cooker.
- Cook on high for 3 hours.
- Prepare the dumplings while the soup is cooking.
- Add spoonfuls of dumpling dough to the top of the soup. Continue cooking for 45 minutes to an hour to cook the dumplings.
Variations
- Seasonings: For some extra flavor use classic chicken spices like an extra teaspoon salt, and a teaspoon of pepper, fresh parsley, fresh thyme, bay leaf, celery salt, minced garlic cloves, poultry seasoning, fresh dill, and thyme sprigs.
- Dumplings: Instead of using all-purpose flour, try using cornmeal, almond flour, or oat flour. Or if you want to make drop dumplings combine 2 ½ cups flour, ¾ cup milk, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 2 teaspoons salt, 2 large eggs, and ¼ cup chopped fresh parsley.
- Broth: You can change the soup liquid from chicken stock to turkey broth, vegetable broth, or low sodium chicken broth.
- Creamy Soup: If you don’t have heavy cream, you can make the creamy broth using butter, milk, and flour. Mix together 2 cups whole milk, ½ cup melted butter, and 6 tablespoons flour. Whisk that into the soup while it’s cooking to make a rich buttery Chicken Soup.
- Noodle Dumplings: Add in some cooked noodles along with the dumplings for a Dumpling Noodle Soup.
- Add-ins: For some other add-ins try a chopped red onion and chopped potatoes. You can also top it off with parmesan or cheddar cheese.
- Meat: Instead of chicken, you could try using turkey or pork in the recipe.
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This Chicken and Dumplings recipe sounds so comforting and perfect for chilly days! I love how detailed the instructions are, especially the variations and tips for making it extra flavorful.
For many, many years, chicken n’ dumplings has been our Christmas Eve supper. My son’s favorite. This is a delicious upgrade of the recipe I have always used. So often dumplings are small and thick. These are the dumplings your grandmother use to make, light, fluffy, and full. Love all the recipes on this site. My favorite go to cooking website
Thanks Elizabeth…really appreciate your kind words AND your 5 star review 🙂
I used a rotisserie chicken, and it was so yummy! You are right, it is the perfect comfort food on a cold day!
This makes a good comfort food! This chicken and dumpling soup is very easy to make and so hearty. The creamy broth is a winner! Must-try!
We tried this at home at it was a hit! It’s so hearty and tasty. Highly recommended!