This recipe makes tasty and incredibly simple to make chicken and dumlings with a velvety sauce. It's so good, you will want to make them often!
2 c. flour
½ t. baking powder
1/4 t. salt, divided
6 T. butter
1 cup milk, (a little less)
2 qt. chicken stock
1 T. onion powder
2 T. ground black pepper
2 bay leaves
garlic powder, to taste
poultry seasoning, to taste
3 c. cooked chicken, rotisserie is good
Combine flour, baking powder and 1/8 t. salt in a bowl. Cut butter into the dry ingredients with a fork or pastry blender. Stir in milk, mixing with a fork until the dough forms a ball.
Heavily flour a work surface.Use rolling pin or a pizza cutter to cut the dumplings. Use a small spatula to lift the dumplings off the cutting surface.
Roll dough out thin with a heavily floured rolling pin. Dip cutter in flour and cut the dumplings in squares about 2 inches x 2 inches.
Use a floured spatula to put dumplings on a heavily floured plate. Just keep flouring between the layers of dumplings.
To cook, bring stock to a boil. Add in seasonings plus the remaining salt. Drop dumplings in one at a time, stirring as you add them. The extra flour on them will help thicken the stock. Cook for about 15-20 minutes or until they not doughy tasting. Add the cooked chicken to the pot.
Serve 8.