Chicken and Dumplings

[jmom713]

Description: A yummy homemade chicken and dumpling recipe that my kids absolutely love! You can pare down the recipe or freeze half of the soup part for later use. Next time I am going to take half out of pot before I add the dumplings and freeze it to make another quick meal later.

Ingredients:

• Bone-in chicken breasts (I use 3-4 pounds)
• 3-4 stalks of celery
• 1 - 1 1/2 pounds of carrots
• one medium white onion
• pasta (if you want to add noodles to the kids' bowls)
• 1 quart of chicken broth
• 6-8 cups of water with a boullion cube or some other chicken broth powder/flavoring (I used 6 tsp of mckay's chicken broth)
• Salt if you use boullion
• Dumplings (i was out of time and just used the reduced fat bisquick recipe X 4)

Steps:

• Put the broth, water, chicken broth powder or boullion, chicken breasts and salt (if needed) in the stock pot and bring to a boil with the lid on.
• Boil about 30-45 minutes
• Remove the chicken from the pot. Pull the meat away from the skin and bone.
• Place the chicken meat back in the pot.
• Add the diced celery, onion and carrots.
• Simmer with the lid on until the vegetables are done (you can simmer much longer if you wish). I simmmered mine for about 2 hours.
• Add the dumplings and cover the pot. Wait 10-15 minutes before removing the lid again and the dumplings should be done.
• I cook up a small pot of pasta and put some in the bottom of each kids' bowl to make the meal more fun for them.