This is one of Missy's favorite recipes to make, and we promise you'll want it as soon as you finish reading the ingredients. YUM!
Ingredients:
Chicken Broth:
- 1 fryer chicken, 2 ½ lb. cut up (honey flavored chicken if you would like)
- 6cups cold water
- 3 chicken bouillon cubes
Soup base:
- 1 can chicken broth (10 3/4 oz)
- 1 cup fresh or frozen peas
- 1 can cream of chicken soup (10 ¾ oz)
- 1 ½ c chopped carrots
- 1 can cream of mushroom soup (10 ¾ oz)
- 1 cup chopped potatoes
- 1 cup chopped celery
- ¼ cup chopped onions
- Cook fryer, cut in pieces, reserved chicken broth and 1 t. seasoned salt.
Feather Dumplings:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 t. salt
- 1/4 t. pepper
- 4 t. baking powder
- 1 egg
- 2 T. butter
- 2/3 c milk
Directions:
- Place fryer, water and bouillon in kettle and bring to a boil.
- Let simmer until chicken is tender.
- Cut up chicken in bite size pieces-set aside.
- Strain chicken broth.
- Put chicken and broth in large kettle, add rest of soup base ingredients, simmer soup on low heat until vegetables are tender.
- Mix up feather dumplings by sifting dry ingredients together.
- Add butter, egg and milk to moist stiff batter.
- Drop by t. into boiling liquid.
- Cook covered and without “peeking” for 20 min.
Enjoy!