4 Chicken breast
Lawrey's seasoning salt
Garlic Salt
Pepper
Enough water to cover chicken in crock pot
1. We cooked the chicken in the crock-pot in 1.5 to 2 hours on high.
2. Brad just adds the water to cover the chicken and a little more and adds quite a few shakes of the seasonings.
Once chicken is cooked, strain off the broth to get all the gross floaty bits and put the broth in a stew pot. Since the chicken was so tender I just shredded it into the broth.
While I was shredding, Brad made the dumplings. He did it mostly by eyeball measuring. But, if I had to guess,
2 1/2c Jiffy baking mix
1c milk, 2%
1/2c chicken broth
salt and pepper (just a few pinches)
He beat the batter for quite awhile and it was still fairly tacky when we were plopping them into the soup but it worked great! Oh, last night we made roast and so I threw in some of the cooked carrots and we minced in some celery. You can add even more veggies if you like and it'd be really good if you cooked them in the crock-pot with the chicken to add even more great flavor! We taste tested the broth before we started adding the dumplings and decided it needed a little more garlic salt and pepper.
So, We got the broth and chicken to a raging boil and started forming small balls with the dough and plopping them in! You'll want to stir every few minutes also. Once you get all the dumplings in, turn it off and (brad doesn't think you're supposed to cover the pot but he did anyway) cover the pot and let it sit for 5min. Since we had the pot at a nice rolling boil the dumplings were cooking nicely.
Brad's definition of a good dumpling is when it's like bread on the inside, which is exactly how they turned out!
And the baby definitely loves the chicken and dumplings! He is kicking away! :)
I hope your attempt at chicken and dumplings turns out just as fantastic! I've already had 3 bowls while typing! Ha! Enjoy!
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