Chicken Dumpling Soup

Chicken Dumpling Soup

Ingredients

Soup:

• 2 - 3 Tablespoons Cooking Oil
• 1 small onion, diced
• 2 Carrots, Diced
• 1/2 Stalk Celery, Diced
• Meat from 1 Chicken, cooked and shredded
• 4 - 6 Cups Chicken Broth
• 1 Tablespoon Parsley
• 2 Bay Leaves
• Salt and Pepper

Dumplings:

• 1 C. Milk
• 1/2 C. Butter
• 1/2 Tsp. Salt
• 1/2 Tsp. Nutmeg
• 1 C. All Purpose Flour
• 3 Eggs

Directions

Soup:

In a small amount of cooking oil, sweat the onion, carrots and celery. Add chicken, broth, parsley, bay leaves, salt and pepper. Simmer about 30 min.

Make Dumplings:

Bring milk and butter to a boil, add salt and nutmeg. Remove from heat and immediately add flour stirring until dough leaves the sides of the pan. Incorporate the eggs, 1 at a time, forming a sticky dough.

Add spoon sized balls of dumpling dough and simmer until dumplings rise.