Ingredients

  • 1 (4 lb) chicken
  • 8 cups water
  • 2 chopped carrots
  • 2 stalks chopped celery
  • 1 chopped green onion
  • 1 cup frozen peas
  • 1 chicken bouillon cube
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon pepper
  • 2 cups flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon chives (optional) or 1 tablespoon parsley (optional)
  • 34 cup milk
  • 12 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons oil

Method

  • Boil chicken with water covering chicken in soup pot with tight lid.
  • Add carrots and celery and bullion cook until chicken is falling off bone, about 2 hours; take chicken out and debone.
  • Chop chicken in bite size pieces.
  • Add back to soup pot with onion, peas, salt and pepper.
  • Add 2 more cups water.
  • Bring back to boiling.
  • In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder, milk, salt and oil and drop by teaspoon in boiling chicken stock.
  • You can add 1 tablespoon parsley or finely chopped chives if you want.
  • Cover pot with lid and cook about 20 minutes on a low simmer so it doesn't burn.
  • Don't lift lid in the 20 minutes that dumplings are cooking cause the steam cooks the dumplings.