Chicken and dumplings

Ingredients

• Whole chicken
• Onion
• Celery
• Seasoning (salt/pepper/garlic powder/onion powder)

Dumplings

• 3 cups all purpose flour
• 1 stick butter
• 1 cup buttermilk
• Seasoning (Salt/pepper)

Roux

• 1 stick butter
• 2-3 tablespoons flour
• 1 cup Chicken broth
• 1 cup Heavy cream

Directions

Boil Chicken with chopped onion, celery, and seasonings for approximately an hour on medium-high. Test chicken temperature – should be 165.

Let chicken rest until cool enough to pick off the bone and return to broth.

Dumplings

Combine flour and butter and mix until course crumbles, add buttermilk, salt, and pepper. Roll out on a floured board then cut into small blocks.

Roux

Melt butter, then add flour until you have a thick mixture

Add broth and heavy cream and stir until thick

Add roux to pot with chicken 

Add dumplings in batches

Cook on low 10-15 minutes to let dumplings cook.