This recipe is hot of the press, yo! Alton Brown’s Chicken Dumpling Soup episode aired sometime last week on television, so the recipe hasn’t made its way to the web yet. But that’s all about to change courtesy of Charlie Freedom.
The recipe goes like this:
- Pop the biggest whole chicken you can find, minus giblets, into your pressure cooker. (If you don’t have a pressure cooker, multiple the time below by 6.) I used a 4.5 pound fryer.
- Fill the pressure cooker with water to the max fill line (around 2/3).
- Get a boil and build the pressure. Then let the thing cook on low heat for 45 minutes.
- Pull the bird out and place it in a bowl. Let it cool.
- If you want a nice smooth broth, strain it through a colander or cheesecloth into another pot.
- At this point, if you want vegetables, chop ‘em up and put them into the broth. Bring it to a simmer and leave it there until the veggies are cooked through.
- When the chicken is cool enough to handle, pull off all of the edible meat and place it into another bowl.
- Now it’s time to make the dumplings. Take a 1/2 cup of the broth, 3 tablespoons of butter, and a 1/2 cup of all purpose flour, and place them in a small saucepan (or even a saucier if you’re cool). Hit them with high heat.
- Mix with a wooden spoon until they come together to form a ball, and when they do, kill the heat.
- Add an egg to the ball of dough and hit them with a hand mixer (or stand mixer with the wire whip attached). Then add a second egg. Beat it until it turns into a super sticky mashed potato like substance.
- Transfer the sticky stuff to a large zip top bag. Cram it all into the corner of the bag.
- When the veggies are cooked through in the broth, bring it back to a rolling boil. And now comes the fun part.
- Cut a 1/2 hole in the corner of the zip top bag. Then squirt out the dough and cut into 1 inch long chunks. Let them fall into the boiling broth.
- When you’ve gotten all the dumplings created, cover the soup, and cook at a simmer for 10 minutes.
- Serve the soup and finish with fresh cracked black. Bob’s your uncle.
