Love: Chicken N Dumplins

I grew up on homemade chicken and dumplins. I'm talking boil your chicken, save the water for your chicken broth, and make your dumplins from scratch- flour and chicken broth. You can imagine that the kitchen is a mess and it is an hour long or more meal.

Through Pinterest (imagine that) I have found several recipes for Chicken n Dumplins that are much easier. I have heard through the years of drop dumplins from biscuits or using tortilla shells. But I finally found a recipe that was worth trying. No of course I could never just do the recipe as it said, I had to start with the way I made my scratch dumplins, and a few different things. I have gotten in the habit of using canned chicken for most things that I used to use boiled chicken for, really for the time.

Ingredients:
16 oz Chicken broth
10.5 oz Cream of Chicken
10.5 oz Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup
13 oz Can Chicken
1/2 cup flour
Grands Flaky Layers (I used a 5 pack this time)
Salt and Pepper to taste

Boil the chicken broth (I used a dutch oven pot), once broth is boiling add cream of chicken and chicken noodle soup. While waiting to boil open your biscuits and begin separating each biscuit into 3 layers. I realize this is easier said than done, so if you can't get exactly 3 layers just flatten some out. Put your 1/2 cup flour in a bowl and add salt and pepper as you desire. Coat each biscuit layer in the flour mixture. When the broth mixture is boiling again you are ready to start droping in the biscuits, turn the heat down a little to medium. As you are dropping them in tear each layer into smaller pieces. Do not stir the dumplins a lot, just push them down in the pot. When you are finished with the dumplins open your chicken and drain the liquid, I used a knife in the can just to cut it into smaller pieces. Add the chicken. As it cooks it will thicken, and the chicken will get hot.

The best part is my time in the kitchen went from hours to 30 minutes. That's right, I was literally eating in 30 minutes.