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[igorsMistress]

The dumplings were very good! The soup part was too.

This is an instantpot recipe but you can modify it and make the dumplings with any soup recipe:

Sheri Castle's Instant Pot Chicken & Fluffy Dumplings

Ingredients send grocery list

• Stew
• 3 to 3 1/2 pounds meaty bone-in, skin-on chicken pieces (from a cut-up whole chicken or a mixture of breasts and thighs)
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
• 3 large fresh thyme sprigs
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 tablespoon distilled white or apple cider vinegar
• 1 medium yellow onion, chopped (about 1½ cups)
• 2 celery stalks, thinly sliced (about ½ cup)
• 3 medium carrots, cut into thin rounds (about 1½ cups)
• 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves 2 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

• Dumplings
• 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small cubes and chilled
• 2 tablespoons vegetable shortening or leaf lard, chilled
• 1/2 cup half-and-half, or as needed

Directions

1. For the stew: Place the chicken in the pot; arrange the dark meat pieces on the bottom and the split breast halves on top. Arrange the breasts so that they are nested together, skin-side down. Add 4 cups water, 2 tablespoons of the butter, thyme, and salt. Cover and cook on high pressure for 8 minutes. Let stand for natural release for 5 minutes, then quick release the remaining pressure.
2. Transfer the chicken pieces to a plate. As soon as they are cool enough to handle, pull the meat from the bones and shred it into bite-size pieces. Save the skin and bones for step 3. Place the meat in a medium bowl, cover, and refrigerate it until needed.
3. Return the bones and skin to the pot. Add the vinegar. Cover and cook on high pressure for 15 minutes. Quick release the pressure. Strain the stock through a fine-mesh sieve into a large bowl and set aside until needed. Discard the solids. Rinse and dry the pot and return it to the multicooker.
4. Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon butter in the pot on sauté medium. Add the onion, celery, carrots, and thyme and stir to coat. Cook until tender, about 5 minutes, stirring often. Stir in the reserved stock and chicken meat and season with salt and pepper. Cover with a tight-fitting tempered glass lid and select the keep warm setting.
5. For the dumplings: Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and pepper in a medium bowl. Work the butter and shortening into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture is crumbly. Slowly stir in enough half-and-half to make a soft, sticky dough that barely holds its shape on a spoon.
6. Uncover the pot and bring the chicken stew to a gently bubbling low boil on sauté low. (If the stew isn’t warm enough to bubble, the dumplings will turn out dense and soggy. If the stew boils vigorously, the liquid will reduce too much.) Use a 1-ounce scoop or two spoons to drop dumplings the size of Ping-Pong balls evenly over the surface of the stew.
7. Cover with a tight-fitting lid that can hold in the heat, preferably a tempered glass lid that lets you monitor the bubbling stew and see the dumplings while they cook. Simmer until the dumplings are firm and fluffy, 15 to 20 minutes. Uncover and let stand 5 minutes. Sprinkle with parsley and serve warm.

Thanks, sounds amazing! Comfort food is always good.

 

[ronott1]

Cool. Thank you. Erm, what's half and half?

Maybe they call it light cream over there?

 

[igorsMistress]

Cool. Thank you. Erm, what's half and half?

Half heavy cream, half whole milk.

 

[ronott1]

What a good mama!

I never have stuff like half & half in the house. I just use whole milk & hope for the best.

Milk should work fine! I also used butter for all 4 tablespoons instead of 2 butter and to shortening or lard.

 

[N F C]

There has been a Goshawk circling the trees on the ridge.
After a few sightings Mel decided to bring the chicks in and send them to cover.

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What a good mom! Love the photo of the chicks on the bottom shelf

 

[ShrekDawg]

There has been a Goshawk circling the trees on the ridge.
After a few sightings Mel decided to bring the chicks in and send them to cover.

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So cute OMG

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Milk should work fine! I also used butter for all 4 tablespoons instead of 2 butter and to shortening or lard.

Sounds delicious! Have thought about getting an instapot...do you use yours a lot? How do you like it?

 

[ShrekDawg]

Sounds delicious! Have thought about getting an instapot...do you use yours a lot? How do you like it?

I just got one like a month ago. Still haven’t used it yet.

 

[ronott1]

Sounds delicious! Have thought about getting an instapot...do you use yours a lot? How do you like it?

I use my instant pot all the time!

I have been cooking with pressure cookers for 10 years or so. I have two fagor stove top pressure cookers too

 

[pennyJo1960]

I do own a insta pot or pressure cooker anymore and at this stage will not have them I guess I actually have 2 or 4 large dutch oven style pyrex, 2 caphalan and cast iron with porcelain over it also a slow cooker if one cannot do it another can find having the others they never did get used just sat there aging