COPYCAT CRACKER BARREL CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
This copycat recipe for Cracker Barrel's chicken and dumplings is practically the definition of home-cooked comfort food!
Provided by Chrysti Benner
Categories Main Dish
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- In a stockpot or Dutch oven, add broth, celery, onion, and chicken breasts.
- Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, partially covered, for about 15 minutes, until the chicken breast is cooked through. While the chicken is cooking, prepare the dumplings.
- In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. Stir in the milk just until combined into a shaggy dough.
- Turn the dough out onto a floured surface and roll to about 1/4 inch thickness.
- Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into strips or squares about 1 to 2 inches in size.
- Once the chicken is cooked through, remove it to a cutting board. Remove the onion chunk and celery pieces and discard.
- Add the dough strips to the simmering broth and simmer for about 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally, allowing the dumplings to cook and the broth to thicken to a gravy-like consistency.
- While the dumplings are simmering, shred or chop chicken and return to the pot.
- Add salt and pepper to taste, then serve warm.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 418 calories, Carbohydrate 51 grams carbohydrates, Cholesterol 82 milligrams cholesterol, Fat 8 grams fat, Fiber 2 grams fiber, Protein 34 grams protein, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, ServingSize 1, Sodium 1778 milligrams sodium, Sugar 2 grams sugar, TransFat 0 grams trans fat, UnsaturatedFat 4 grams unsaturated fat
BETTER THAN CRACKER BARRELĀ® CHICKEN 'N DUMPLINGS
My Grandma grew up on a farm and this was her recipe - no shortcuts but still pretty easy. For best results you must use a whole chicken and flour. You can also use some chicken stock for added flavor. The trick is the lemon which makes the chicken tender and adds flavor to the soup. Leftovers won't last very long with this.
Provided by jadedgurl
Categories Soups, Stews and Chili Recipes Soup Recipes Chicken Soup Recipes Chicken and Dumpling Recipes
Time 2h10m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Place chicken and 1 pinch salt in a large pot; cover with water. Bring to a boil, skimming any scum off the surface with a slotted spoon. Add lemon, celery, onion, and carrots. Simmer broth over medium heat until chicken starts to fall off the bone, about 1 hour.
- Discard lemon. Remove chicken from the pot; let cool.
- Place flour, salt, and pepper in a large bowl. Make a well in the center. Ladle in 2 to 3 scoops of hot broth. Mix in flour with a spoon until dough comes together into a ball.
- Turn dough out onto a floured surface. Knead carefully until smooth. Roll out into a large rectangle; cut into small rectangular dumplings.
- Drop dumplings one at a time into the simmering broth. Cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, about 30 minutes.
- Bone chicken and chop into pieces. Add to the pot; cook until heated through, about 5 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 384 calories, Carbohydrate 35.3 g, Cholesterol 61.5 mg, Fat 15.2 g, Fiber 2.4 g, Protein 25.7 g, SaturatedFat 4.1 g, Sodium 128.1 mg, Sugar 0.8 g
CRACKER BARREL DUMPLINGS ~ COPY CAT
Cracker Barrel Restaurants serve a side dish called dumplings. This is not their chicken & dumplings main dish. It is a delicious side of just the dumplings without chicken. You could easily add chicken to this recipe if you wanted chicken & dumplings. They are so yummy and they do taste just like Cracker Barrel's Dumplins! You...
Provided by Amy H.
Categories Other Side Dishes
Time 25m
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- 1. Mix the flour, baking powder, salt, milk, and oil, blending well, and turn out on to a floured surface. Knead four or five times. Roll out dough to 1/8-inch thick and cut into 1 x 1 1/2-inch dumplings.
- 2. In a large saucepan, combine the water and bouillon cubes/soup base. Boil until the bouillon cubes/soup base dissolve. Cook the dumplings until just about done; dumplings are done when they float up towards the top of the pot. Use a strainer to remove them to a bowl and set aside. Reserve the cooking liquid.
- 3. While the dumplings are cooking, you can start to prepare the sauce. Melt the butter in medium saucepan. Add salt and flour; stir until thick. Mix the sugar with the milk and add to flour mixture a little at a time, stirring constantly with a whisk until thick and smooth. Remove from heat. Add the cooked dumplings to the sauce.
- 4. Reserve 3/4-1 cup of the cooking liquid and stir gently into the sauce and dumplings. Return to low heat and simmer until blended. If the sauce seems too thick, gently stir in a little more cooking liquid. Add pepper to taste.
CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS LIKE CRACKER BARREL'S
This tastes just like Cracker Barrel's, if you have ever tried it. From book "Old Fashioned Country Cooking" found at Cracker Barrel.
Provided by hcopeland
Categories Chicken
Time 3h
Yield 1 batch, 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Place chicken in a Dutch oven. Add water and 2 teaspoons salt. Bring to a boil.
- Cover, reduce the heat, and simmer for 1 hour or until tender (should almost fall off bone).
- Remove the chicken from the broth and cool. Bone the chicken and cut meat into bite-sized pieces.
- Bring the broth to a boil and add pepper.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt. Cut in the shortening. Add the buttermilk, stirring with a fork until moistened.
- Knead the dough 4 to 5 times (never done), and pat to 1/2-inch pieces and drop into boiling broth (I do not pat it out, just pinch off pieces). Reduce the heat to medium-low, and cook for about 8 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in the chicken and serve. I make it in the pressure cooker, much quicker and easier.
- I pressure it for only 30 minutes.
- It can also be done in the crockpot with 3-4 cups water but someone has that book so at this time I cannot give cooking times.
- Good Luck! Hope you enjoy.
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