Dumplings or dumplings?
Someone considers these products to be the same, someone else. But in any case, dumplings (dumplings) are small pieces of dough that are cooked in broth. And many have known this dish since childhood.
Especially delicious is the chicken soup with dumplings, which has many recipes and is prepared with a wide variety of additions.
Chicken Dumpling Soup - General Cooking Principles
Broth for chicken soup with dumplings can be prepared from any part of the carcass or meatballs. Lump meat is laid directly in the water, and meatballs can be pre-fried. So they better keep their shape, and the dish gets a pleasant taste.
Dumplings are made from eggs and flour. Dairy products, water, boiled vegetables, various spices, oil, herbs can be added. Instead of flour, you can use semolina or take these products in half. Dough for dumplings is most often made viscous, with a consistency resembling sour cream. They are formed with a spoon, lowered into the broth. Sometimes dumplings are made from tough dough, sculpted with hands or cut with a knife.
As in any other first course, any vegetables, cereals, herbs, canned goods and spices can be present in chicken soup with dumplings.
Recipe 1: Classic Chicken Dumpling Soup
The basic version of chicken soup with dumplings, which can always be supplemented with cereals, any vegetables and get a new dish. Dumplings are prepared from water and eggs.
Ingredients
• half a small chicken;
• water 3 liters;
• some oil or any fat;
• 5 potatoes;
• onion;
• carrot;
• salt, greens.
For dumplings:
• half a glass of flour;
• 2 eggs.
Cooking
1. We wash the chicken, fill it with water and cook the broth for about 40-50 minutes, depending on the quality of the bird. Then we take out the meat, add salt to taste.
2. Dice the peeled potatoes, dip into the broth.
3. Shred the carrots, cut the peeled onion into cubes. Fry onion for a couple of minutes, add carrots and cook until golden. If you like soups without frying, then just pour the prepared vegetables into the broth.
4. We disassemble the boiled and already cooled chicken, put the meat in the soup.
5. Knead the dough for dumplings. To do this, break the eggs, mix with salt and two tablespoons of water. Pour flour, the dough should be thick, like on pancakes.
6. As soon as the potatoes become soft, but not yet boiled, we form the dumplings with a spoon, do not forget to moisten it in water.
7. Cook the soup for another 5 minutes, season with herbs, spices, try on salt. Serve with sour cream.
Recipe 2: Chicken Soup with Semolina Dumplings
The peculiarity of this chicken soup with dumplings is loose and airy dumplings, which are obtained so thanks to semolina. It is advisable to let the dough stand for a while before forming, for about 10 minutes.
Ingredients
• a pound of chicken, you can take a soup set;
• 3 potatoes;
• onion;
• spices, parsley leaves.
For dumplings:
• egg;
• 3-4 tablespoons of semolina.
Cooking
1. Boil the chicken in two liters of water for about 40 minutes. Salt the broth.
2. Shred the onion cubes, carrots with straws. We send everything together in a saucepan, bring to a boil.
3. Run the diced potatoes.
4. Beat the egg with a fork, add a spoonful of water, salt and gradually add the semolina. Mix.
5. Once the potatoes are cooked, form the dumplings and boil for 3 minutes.
6. Season the soup with chopped parsley leaves.
Recipe 3: Chicken Dumpling and Mushroom Soup
In this soup with dumplings we will use mushrooms, but you can take other mushrooms. If they are dried, then first need to soak and boil. Forest mushrooms also need to boil for about 20 minutes.
Ingredients
• 600 grams of chicken;
• 3 potatoes;
• 300 grams of champignons;
• onion;
• butter;
• 3 liters of water;
• spices, herbs.
For dumplings:
• 50 grams of milk;
• egg;
• a spoon of sunflower oil;
• flour.
Cooking
1. Cook the chicken broth. Solim.
2. Shred the mushrooms not very finely, fry in oil until almost ready.
3. Cut the onion, send to the mushrooms and fry together.
4. Peel the potatoes, cut, as we like, run into the soup.
5. Knead the dough. To do this, beat the egg with milk, salt, add flour and butter. The consistency of the dough needs to be made viscous, like sour cream. At will, you can put a little chopped dill in it.
6. Once the potatoes are cooked, add mushrooms with onions. Bring the soup to a boil.
7. Put the dumplings, boil until cooked, fill the dish with herbs, turn off and let stand for 10 minutes.
Recipe 4: Spicy Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Tomato
Rich and bright soup with dumplings and fresh tomatoes. If necessary, they can be replaced with juice, sauce, pasta or canned tomatoes. Dumplings will be prepared from a mixture of flour and semolina.
Ingredients
• 6 tomatoes;
• half of the chicken;
• 3 liters of water;
• 4 potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• one carrot;
• oil, spices, herbs.
For dumplings:
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• 2 tablespoons of semolina;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Cook the chicken almost until done, then salt the soup and add the diced potatoes.
2. Grind onions and carrots, as we are comfortable. Fry in a pan.
3. We wash the tomatoes, cut each in half, three pulp on a grater, throw the skins. We send the tomato in a pan with vegetables and boil twice.
4. Beat the egg and salt with 20 grams of water, add semolina with flour, knead the dough. It should not be thick.
5. Put the dumplings in the pan as soon as the potatoes are cooked. Cook for 2 minutes.
6. Add the tomato contents of the pan, boil the soup for another minute, season with herbs and turn off.
Recipe 5: Chicken Dumpling and Cream Cheese Soup
The dish has a very delicate creamy taste, which is given by processed cheese. Dumplings for this chicken soup with dumplings can be prepared any, but we will do it on kefir. Thanks to soda, dumplings are soft, airy, melt in your mouth.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of chicken;
• 4 potatoes;
• 2 curds;
• 2 liters of water;
• onion;
• greens, salt.
For dumplings:
• half a glass of kefir;
• egg;
• a pinch of soda;
• flour.
Cooking
1. Prepare the broth from water and chicken. When it is ready, salt.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices, dip in a saucepan.
3. Strain the onion in oil. You can add carrots to your taste.
4. Knead the dough. To do this, quench the soda, add the egg and salt beaten with a fork, pour the flour and knead the dough.
5. Using a spoon, we collect the dough, lower it into the pan, forming dumplings.
6. Cheese cut into cubes (you can grate) and dip in soup. Cook for two minutes after boiling.
7. Add the fried onions, chopped herbs and bring to taste. Turn off the stove.
Recipe 6: Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Green Peas
Stunningly bright and light soup, which can be prepared with fresh, frozen or canned peas. In any case, it will delight you with taste. We will cook dumplings from potatoes. This recipe allows you to get pieces of dough of the same shape and size.
Ingredients
• 0.5 chicken;
• onion;
• carrot;
• butter;
• 400 grams of peas;
• spices.
For dumplings:
• 3 potatoes;
• 2 eggs;
• dill;
• salt;
• flour.
Cooking
1. Fill the bird with two liters of water and prepare the broth.
2. Peel the onions and carrots, cut them at our discretion and pass in oil.
3. Boil potatoes, you can do this together with chicken. We take out, knead a crush and cool a little. Add salt, egg, chopped dill and flour. Knead the cool dough.
4. The table is well sprinkled with flour. Roll out a sausage from the dough, with a diameter of 1.5 cm. Cut into pieces.
5. Salt the soup, pour the dumplings and cook for a minute.
6. Add the green peas. We simply toss the frozen or fresh peas; the liquid must be decanted from the pickled product. Boil another three to four minutes.
7. Spread the fried onions, add spices, cover and turn off. Let the chicken soup stand for a quarter of an hour so that it reaches and the taste of the products is combined.
Recipe 7: Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Buckwheat
For many, buckwheat is associated with porridge. But not less tasty and nutritious with this grits are obtained first courses. Especially if it's homemade chicken soup with dumplings. We will prepare the dough with milk. Recipe without potatoes.
Ingredients
• 300 grams of chicken;
• 2 liters of water;
• a third glass of buckwheat;
• onion;
• spices, oil;
• carrots.
For dumplings:
• egg;
• 60 ml of milk;
• salt;
• 4-5 tablespoons of flour.
Cooking
1. Cook the broth. At the end, salt and pour the washed buckwheat.
2. Separately, fry the onion in a pan, add carrots at the end and pass together for 5 minutes. The form of slicing vegetables at your discretion.
3. Knead the dough from beaten with salt eggs, milk and flour. The density of sour cream.
4. As soon as the buckwheat is cooked, put a spoon in the dumpling soup. Cook the dish for another three minutes.
5. Add the fried vegetables, boil, season with spices, herbs and evaluate the taste of chicken soup with dumplings.
Recipe 8: Chicken Dumpling and Meatball Soup
The soup is preparing quickly, it looks interesting, since both dumplings and meatballs are round. For minced meat we use chicken fillet, it is possible from the breast or thigh. If you like fatty dishes, you can add a little fat.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of chicken;
• flour;
• greenery;
• 2 eggs;
• onion;
• 4 potatoes;
• carrot;
• some oil;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Grind the chicken through a meat grinder or in a blender, add salt, pepper, you can put any other seasonings. Break one egg and knead the minced meat. If it turned out to be liquidish, then pour in a little flour. We form meatballs with wet hands.
2. We put on the stove two and a half liters of water, salt.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with three tablespoons of water, add a little greens and about 100 grams of flour. Knead the usual dough for molding with a spoon.
4. We clean all the vegetables, grind. We start the potatoes, after boiling the onions with carrots. Cook for 5 minutes.
5. We fry the meatballs in a frying pan on both sides, you do not need to bring it to readiness. Sent to the soup with butter. Cook for another 10 minutes.
6. Take a spoon and form dumplings. Boil for three minutes.
7. We fill the soup with chopped herbs and can be turned off. Before serving, let it brew for half an hour.
Recipe 9: Chicken Soup with Dumplings, Boiled Eggs and Corn
An interesting chicken soup with dumplings, in which canned corn is added. We will cook dumplings on kefir. For the broth we use any parts of the carcass.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of chicken;
• 3 potatoes;
• large onion;
• 2 -2.5 liters of water;
• 200 grams of corn;
• one bell pepper;
• spices;
• 3 eggs;
• butter.
For dumplings:
• egg;
• 2 tablespoons of kefir;
• spices;
• 5 tablespoons of flour.
Cooking
1. As usual, cook the chicken broth and salt.
2. Lower the chopped potatoes.
3. Fry chopped onion in butter, preferably creamy. Add the chopped sweet pepper and pass it together until soft.
4. Boil the eggs in a separate bowl, clean and cut in half.
5. Knead the dumplings, as usual. We mix everything, add flour to a sour cream consistency.
6. Once the potatoes are soft, start the corn and begin to form dumplings.
7. Cook for 2 minutes, spread the fried vegetables, let it boil well, season the soup with herbs and turn it off.
Dumpling Chicken Soup - Tips & Tricks
• Domestic and farm chickens require more cooking time due to well-developed muscle tissue. They make a fragrant broth, the broth is yellow and saturated. Factory poultry cooks twice as fast, but the broth is not so rich.
• If you do not have time to remove the foam and the soup has already boiled, then add a little water to the pan and it will rise to the surface again. You can simply drain the first broth and refill the meat. It is believed that the dishes on the second broth are more healthy and dietary.
• If feathers and pads remain on the bird, they can be easily plucked with tweezers. A small fluff needs to be burned. To do this, you can use the flame of a gas stove or a set fire to a newspaper.
• The smaller the spoon, the more accurately and more beautifully the dumplings turn out, but the process of their preparation is delayed. To make a beautiful soup, you can use the help of households and form products with several hands.
• In the dough for dumplings, you can add any herbs, paprika, turmeric and other spices. Dumplings will turn out bright, appetizing.
