Granny's Chicken & Dumplings
Granny's Chicken and Dumplings recipe
Yield
16 servingsPrep
20 minCook
45 minReady
1 hrsIngredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | each |
chicken
|
*
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
garlic salt
|
|
| 5 | cups |
all-purpose flour
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
baking powder
|
|
| ½ | teaspoon |
salt
|
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
black pepper
|
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | each |
chicken
|
*
|
| 5 | ml |
garlic salt
|
|
| 1.2 | l |
all-purpose flour
|
|
| 3 | large |
eggs
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
baking powder
|
|
| 2.5 | ml |
salt
|
|
| 5 | ml |
black pepper
|
|
Directions
Cook hen in pressure cooker with lots of salt and MSG, plus 1 teaspoon garlic salt.
Place 15-lb weight on top and cook over medium-high heat.
When the weight starts inchpopping inch 2 to 3 times a minute, cook 15 minutes.
Cool the chicken and de-bone.
Mix flour, salt, ½ teaspoon MSG and a little less than ½ teaspoon baking powder.
Blend eggs with 1¼ Cup cool chicken stock from pot.
Stir into flour a little at a time.
On flour-covered board, knead dough and roll it out until thinner than a nickel.
Cut dumplings.
Stack well-floured dumplings onto plate.
In large pot, bring the rest of the stock to a boil over medium-high heat.
Add the chunks of chicken alternately with the dumplings; quickly pushing them below the surface of the liquid as you add them.
DON'T FOLD THE DUMPLINGS! Keep mixture boiling at all times.
Lower heat; cover and cook for 12 to 15 minutes.
Don't lift the lid for the first 10 minutes.
Add 1 teaspoon pepper to broth --andgt; might need to add additional stock during the cooking process.
