Homemade Creamy Chicken and Dumplings with Bacon Soup
While there are various versions of dumpling dishes around the world,
this creamy chicken and dumpling recipe is based on the Southern cooking
in the United States, where it is a very popular dish. However, this
recipe embellishes on the traditional dish by adding some potatoes and
bacon (now that’s Southern cooking!). It’s too thin to be considered to
be a stew, but it’s too thick to be called a soup. It’s just right.
Homemade Creamy Chicken and Dumplings with Bacon
Ingredients:
6 slices bacon
3 large red or golden potatoes, peeled and diced
1 onion, peeled and diced
1 stalk of celery, diced
1 carrot, diced
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, diced (can use chicken thighs
if preferred)
3 cups of low sodium chicken broth
1 teaspoon of poultry seasoning
salt and pepper to your liking
2 cups of frozen whole kernel corn
3 cups of half and half
1 cup of whole milk
1 1/2 cups of biscuit mix
Procedure:
In a medium sized heavy soup pot, cook the bacon covered over medium
heat until it is browned. Drain the bacon and crumble it. Set it aside
keeping the bacon drippings in the soup pot.
To the bacon drippings, add the potatoes, the onion, the celery, the
carrot, the chopped garlic and the chicken and cook them over medium
heat for about 15 minutes. Stir them a few times during this process.
Pour the chicken broth into the soup pot and stir in the poultry
seasoning, salt and pepper. Stir in the frozen corn and bring the
mixture to a simmer for another 15 minutes.
Pour the half and half into the soup pot and bring the mixture to a
boil. Add the crumbled bacon.
Put the milk and the biscuit mix in a medium mixing bowl and combine
them together well; until they have become a thick dough. Drop the dough
into the bowling soup mixture in tablespoon sized chunks, making sure
they don’t stick together in clumps.
Turn the heat down and allow everything to simmer for about 10
minutes uncovered. Replace the lid and allow to the chicken and
dumplings to simmer for another 10 minutes. Do not stir during this time
or the dumplings will fall apart.
Serve piping hot garnished with chives, parsley, dill, cheese or
whatever your favorite garnishment is. This creamy chicken and dumplings
with bacon and potatoes recipe also makes for a great leftover.
