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Chicken & Dumplings: Rolled vs Drop

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Rolled. When I was a young boy my Mom's chicken and dumplings were a treat. I had a cousin that I wasn't too fond of that lived with my Great Aunt. She enticed me to come over one time with the promise of chicken and dumplings for dinner. I couldn't wait for dinner assuming we would have what my Mom made. At dinner time my Aunt pulled out a porcelain enameled roast pan and when she took the lid off there was a pathetic looking whole chicken that was mostly burned from sitting above the pool of clear chicken broth with six or seven doughy store bought canned biscuits and two whole carrots that had stewed in the broth. I have not had chicken and dumplings since then.

Yours look more like what my Mom cooked.
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Then post your recipe!!! I've been asking my wife forever to make C&D so a good recipe I can stand behind would be a big help!
- If you are going to do something stupid, be smart about it.
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Fido, post your recipe. Thinking about knocking some out this weekend.
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For the stock; I start by picking a Rotisserie chicken and tossing the carcass into a stock pot with a couple of chicken feet, chopped onion, celery, & carrots. Add in a few bay leaves and peppercorns. Add in a 6 cups of water and mark where the water is. Add more water to submerge and simmer for at least an hour and ideally 2-4 until you are down to the 6 cup mark. You will have to add water from time to time the longer you go. Strain out solids.

For the base; Dice a medium onion, 2 carrots, and 2 stalks of celery by hand or in a food processor. Saute in 2 Tbls olive oil and 2 Tbls butter over med low heat until almost tender. Add in 1/4c flour and stir for a minute to make a light roux. Begin adding the stock a cup at a time until incorporated and bring to a low simmer. Depending on my mood I may add a half cup of sherry as well. Season with salt, pepper, and thyme.

While that simmers make the dumplings. A food processor makes quick work of this. 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 tbls cold butter thinly sliced and 4 tbls shortening, lard, schmaltz, or duck fat. (For herbed dumplings add in a little poultry seasoning, fresh parsley, and ground black pepper).

Pulse until it looks like sand with a few pebbles. Add cold buttermilk and pulse until it just comes together and is a little sticky. Roll out into a well floured surface to 1/4" thick. Use a pizza cutter to cut dumplings into squares. About 1"-1.5" Begin adding to the soup stirring well as you go. Use your eyes. You may have more dumplings than you need and keep in mind everything will thicken as it cooks. When it looks right, simmer for about 6-8 minutes to cook the dumplings. Fold in the shredded chicken and a few Tbls of chopped parsley
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These frozen dumplin's from HEB are life changing. First thing I made after that stout cold front last week.
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Gracias, Fido.
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I think many people in this thread don't know what a rolled dumpling looks like. That said, I grew up with dropped so that's my vote.
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i'll be using dropped w/ fido's recipe...just to piss him off.
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aTm2004 said:

Drop. I like my dumplings doughy.

This. And it's the way my mom made them.
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RK said:

i'll be using dropped w/ fido's recipe...just to piss him off.


Mrs. fido prefers dropped so I have done it many times. It works great. 2nd only do doing it right and rolling them out
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fka ftc said:

ValleyRatAg said:

Flour tortillas cut into strips puro pinche RGV.
We use gnocchi since the wife is Italian. Nothing wrong with it at all.
Ask her if she'll make it for you with passatelli sometime, I'd be interested to hear her response, and if you like it.
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FIDO*98* said:

For the stock; I start by picking a Rotisserie chicken and tossing the carcass into a stock pot with a couple of chicken feet, chopped onion, celery, & carrots. Add in a few bay leaves and peppercorns. Add in a 6 cups of water and mark where the water is. Add more water to submerge and simmer for at least an hour and ideally 2-4 until you are down to the 6 cup mark. You will have to add water from time to time the longer you go. Strain out solids.

For the base; Dice a medium onion, 2 carrots, and 2 stalks of celery by hand or in a food processor. Saute in 2 Tbls olive oil and 2 Tbls butter over med low heat until almost tender. Add in 1/4c flour and stir for a minute to make a light roux. Begin adding the stock a cup at a time until incorporated and bring to a low simmer. Depending on my mood I may add a half cup of sherry as well. Season with salt, pepper, and thyme.

While that simmers make the dumplings. A food processor makes quick work of this. 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 tbls cold butter thinly sliced and 4 tbls shortening, lard, schmaltz, or duck fat. (For herbed dumplings add in a little poultry seasoning, fresh parsley, and ground black pepper).

Pulse until it looks like sand with a few pebbles. Add 1 cup cold buttermilk and pulse until it just comes together. Roll out into a well floured surface to 1/4" thick. Use a pizza cutter to cut dumplings into squares. About 1"-1.5" Begin adding to the soup stirring well as you go. Use your eyes. You may have more dumplings than you need and keep in mind everything will thicken as it cooks. When it looks right, simmer for about 6-8 minutes to cook the dumplings. Fold in the shredded chicken and a few Tbls of chopped parsley

I made this last night. When it came to making the dumplings, the dough was extremely wet, almost like cake batter. I had to add a lot of flour (almost another cup) to get to something that could be rolled out. The dumplings turned out well once I did, and everything else in this recipe was nails.
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Lightly rolled noodle type of varying lengths
75/25 AP to 00
Roast the chicken over on rack over a pan of veggies
Strip the chicken and use carcass plus veg to a make a stock
Skim the fat that dripped off the bird into the veg and is now in the stock for the dumplings with the rest of the fat being margarine
Rollout easily and lightly flour before dropping in the boiling stock


My great granny would just boiled the bird (that she had just killed in the front yard) and use flour, fat and water. The dumplings had a nice coat of flour on them when they went int
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HTownAg98 said:

FIDO*98* said:

For the stock; I start by picking a Rotisserie chicken and tossing the carcass into a stock pot with a couple of chicken feet, chopped onion, celery, & carrots. Add in a few bay leaves and peppercorns. Add in a 6 cups of water and mark where the water is. Add more water to submerge and simmer for at least an hour and ideally 2-4 until you are down to the 6 cup mark. You will have to add water from time to time the longer you go. Strain out solids.

For the base; Dice a medium onion, 2 carrots, and 2 stalks of celery by hand or in a food processor. Saute in 2 Tbls olive oil and 2 Tbls butter over med low heat until almost tender. Add in 1/4c flour and stir for a minute to make a light roux. Begin adding the stock a cup at a time until incorporated and bring to a low simmer. Depending on my mood I may add a half cup of sherry as well. Season with salt, pepper, and thyme.

While that simmers make the dumplings. A food processor makes quick work of this. 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 tbls cold butter thinly sliced and 4 tbls shortening, lard, schmaltz, or duck fat. (For herbed dumplings add in a little poultry seasoning, fresh parsley, and ground black pepper).

Pulse until it looks like sand with a few pebbles. Add 1 cup cold buttermilk and pulse until it just comes together. Roll out into a well floured surface to 1/4" thick. Use a pizza cutter to cut dumplings into squares. About 1"-1.5" Begin adding to the soup stirring well as you go. Use your eyes. You may have more dumplings than you need and keep in mind everything will thicken as it cooks. When it looks right, simmer for about 6-8 minutes to cook the dumplings. Fold in the shredded chicken and a few Tbls of chopped parsley

I made this last night. When it came to making the dumplings, the dough was extremely wet, almost like cake batter. I had to add a lot of flour (almost another cup) to get to something that could be rolled out. The dumplings turned out well once I did, and everything else in this recipe was nails.
I didn't read his recipe until now. I'm guessing Fido has never made bread dough, or he'd know one cup of buttermilk is a ton of hydration for merely two cups of flour. If one cup of buttermilk weighs 240 grams (quick Google) and two cups of flour weighs 240 grams, you're looking at 100% hydration dough. Adding another cup of flour as you did takes it down to 67% hydration.
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When I looked at what happened when I turned off the food processor, I was wondering if there's a typo.
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No, I've clearly never made bread before. I used an AI image generator to produce the image on the first page. It certainly wasn't a typo because I was in a hurry to get the recipe posted
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Any idea on why the dough is so wet?
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My grandmother made them rolled, my mom made them rolled, and I make them rolled. I'll admit I've had some decent drop ones, but rolled is better.
It only took me a year to figure out this place is nuts!
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I don't really measure anything, much less weigh it. I guess a more accurate description is I pour buttermilk through the feeding tube as I pulse the food processor until it comes together and is a bit sticky. Then I turn it out onto a floured rolling surface. I over guessed when I typed that out. Glad you were able to make it work
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FIDO*98* said:

For the stock; I start by picking a Rotisserie chicken and tossing the carcass into a stock pot with a couple of chicken feet, chopped onion, celery, & carrots. Add in a few bay leaves and peppercorns. Add in a 6 cups of water and mark where the water is. Add more water to submerge and simmer for at least an hour and ideally 2-4 until you are down to the 6 cup mark. You will have to add water from time to time the longer you go. Strain out solids.

For the base; Dice a medium onion, 2 carrots, and 2 stalks of celery by hand or in a food processor. Saute in 2 Tbls olive oil and 2 Tbls butter over med low heat until almost tender. Add in 1/4c flour and stir for a minute to make a light roux. Begin adding the stock a cup at a time until incorporated and bring to a low simmer. Depending on my mood I may add a half cup of sherry as well. Season with salt, pepper, and thyme.

While that simmers make the dumplings. A food processor makes quick work of this. 2 cups all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 tbls cold butter thinly sliced and 4 tbls shortening, lard, schmaltz, or duck fat. (For herbed dumplings add in a little poultry seasoning, fresh parsley, and ground black pepper).

Pulse until it looks like sand with a few pebbles. Add 1 cup cold buttermilk and pulse until it just comes together. Roll out into a well floured surface to 1/4" thick. Use a pizza cutter to cut dumplings into squares. About 1"-1.5" Begin adding to the soup stirring well as you go. Use your eyes. You may have more dumplings than you need and keep in mind everything will thicken as it cooks. When it looks right, simmer for about 6-8 minutes to cook the dumplings. Fold in the shredded chicken and a few Tbls of chopped parsley


Great recipe with leftover turkey. Only add enough buttermilk so the dough comes together.
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It's that time of year. Recipe updated to say eyeball the buttermilk. Rolled still ftw!
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I'd never heard of drop dumplings until after my wife and I got married. She said " I'm making chicken and dumplings for supper tonight ". I was thrilled. I was making my bowl and I guess I was louder than I thought when I said "what the hell is this". The debate was on! It's still on 18 years later.

In a pinch and a hurry, my momma would use flour tortillas but the best were the ones she rolled really thin!

I'm thinking this might be next weekend meal.
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Timely reminder.....good road food.

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My mom made them today. Still better than mine.
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