chicken and dumplings

How To Make chicken and dumplings

• Step 1
  Rinse chicken, and place into large pot. Cover with water. Add salt, pepper and onion powder Bring to boil, and cook until very tender
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  Step 2
  Remove chicken, and cut into bite-sized pieces to cool quicker Place flour into large bowl, and add shortening Cut shortening in with fork, until mixed well Take 3/4 cup hot chicken broth, and mix into flour, forming a stiff dough
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  Step 3
  Add chicken back to broth on a low simmer Place dough on floured surface, and roll to 1/8 inch thickness Flour top of dough Cut into strips about 1 inch long and 3/4 inch wide
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  Step 4
  Placed floured dumplings in the slow simmering broth push down lightly, so all dumplings go under the broth for a second. Cover and cook, very lightly simmering for 8 minutes. Turn heat off, And allow to sit 15 minutes before serving.
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