Chicken & Dumplings - One whole meal

This recipe has every nutrients you need in one bowl. If love chicken soups, this will elevate it to another level. In a cold night, this is a life saver.

One hot bowl of this soup with the combination of a novel. You can just imagine how awesome it will be.

This recipe has chicken, veggies, milk, herb in one bowl. This can't get any better. I love this soup and hope you will too.

Do leave comments or suggestions if you have any.

Ingredients:

For Soup gravy:

2 chicken thighs - cut in bite size pieces
2 tbsp all purpose flour
1 small onion - chopped
1 large carrot - chopped
2 celery sticks - chopped
1/4 cup chopped pumpkin
1/4 cup boiled peas
1/4 cup heavy cream
3 cups chicken broth
2 cup water
2 tbsp vegetable oil
crushed black pepper
salt to taste

For Dumplings:

1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp heavy cream
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp finely chopped thyme/parsley/rosemary (add what you like or not add anything at all)
crushed black pepper
salt to taste

Recipe:

1. In a large deep non-stick pan, add oil and heat it up over medium heat.
2. Meanwhile, take chicken pieces add 2 tbsp flour, salt and pepper. Coat chicken pieces properly in the mixture.
3. Once oil is hot, add chicken pieces to it. Cook them until they start to get golden brown color. Keep rotating them in between so that they get cooked on all sides. Once cooked take them out.

4. In the same pan add all the veggies,pepper and salt. Cook until translucent and cooked halfway through. I didn't add any extra oil because after cooking chicken in it there is already enough oil left to cook the veggies.

5. Once veggies are cooked, add chicken broth, cream and peas. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add water to this if you feel it is thick. Keep in mind when we add dumplings they soak water too. I added water because I love soup like consistency.

6. Heat it over high. Once it starts to boil, cover it and reduce the heat to low. Let it simmer for 45 minutes.
7. After 40 minutes are over, start preparing dumplings. In a bowl, add all the ingredients and mix well. It will be of sticky consistency.

8. After 45 minutes, with help of spoon add dumplings one by one to the soup mixture. Try to do this step as fast as you can so that they all get even cooking time.

9. Once all dumplings are added, cover the lid, increase the heat to medium and cook it for 15 minutes.
10. Once done, close the heat and let it sit for 10 minutes. Serve hot and enjoy.