Chicken & Dumplings

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Ingredients

• Chicken
• small chicken
• 1/2 onion
• Garlic Clove
• Sprig of Thyme
• Sprig of rosemary
• Salt & Pepper
• Dumplings
• 1 cup flour
• 1/4 cup cornmeal
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1+ cup warm water
• Soup
• 1 large carrot
• 1/2 onion
• 1 large celery
• 4 cups chicken broth
• 1/4 tsp ceyenne
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• sprig of thyme
• handf-full of greens,kale, or chickory

Steps

1. Chicken**
2. roast (or buy) chicken ahead of time and let cool a little
3. save drippings and debone
4. break meat apart with forks, you want more stringy “pulled” meat than chunks.
5. set aside
6. Dumplings**
7. mix dry ingredients
8. add a little hot water at a time, and roll into ball
9. when it gets a nice consitency, roll into 1cmx3or4cm dumplings
10. put aside onto a plate dusted well with flour
11. Soup**
12. Into your stock pot your carrot, celery, onion
13. cook in chicken fat or olive oil if it’s not enough until softened
14. add chicken broth, thyme, nutmeg, ceyenne
15. add chicken
16. bring to boil
17. salt/pepper to taste
18. Cook for 15 minutes
19. Chicken & Dumplings ( putting it all together )**
20. Add greens
21. Add the dumplings to the soup, and boil for 15 minutes (up to 30).
22. check by taking out some yummy dumplings and sampling
23. the water should boil down, and stew should be come thick from flour
24. if it’s not thick enough, you can add some flour/cornstarch into cold water, and then add it to the stew