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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Savory and satisfying, this chicken and dumpling soup is a classic comfort food. Try making a batch to warm you up on a chilly day.
Why not learn How To Make Crock Pot Bone Broth to use as the base of your soup? You could also try this Homemade Poultry Seasoning Recipe rather than using a storebought blend! You can also try making Bisquick Dumplings to use for this recipe.
Reader Review
Great recipe! I make this after Christmas with turkey leftovers. I use the carcass for making broth, and add meat, leftover gravy adds flavour too. I like to add a few diced potatoes with the veg. Helps thicken to a more stew-like consistency. Great way to use remnants in the frig and get more value from that turkey! Hint. I freeze turkey meat in the broth for a future use. That way it’s easy prep and we can enjoy on a cold night when we aren’t so tired of eating turkey.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is an easy recipe.
- Total Time: Making this soup will take approximately 35 minutes.
- Variations: Add some potatoes, diced up small since the cooking time is short. Try mixing some grated cheese into the dumpling dough. Add more vegetables, ones that will cook quickly, like broccoli, bell peppers, or mushrooms. If you’d like some heat, add some diced hot peppers, your favourite hot sauce, or some cayenne pepper.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a large pot or Dutch oven, a medium bowl, a tablespoon, a whisk, a pastry cutter or a fork, a mixing spoon, a cutting board, and a sharp knife.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Chicken: Any cooked chicken (or turkey) will work for this recipe. Thigh meat or other dark meat will add a bit more flavour, but breast meat will still taste great with the other ingredients.
Vegetables: This recipe only calls for onions, carrots, and celery, but you can absolutely add more vegetables to the mix. Just be sure to dice things up small so that they have time to cook properly. If you happen to have some shallots available, try those too.
Stock: While chicken stock technically makes the most sense for a chicken soup, use whatever you like best. Vegetable stock would work, as would any of those fancier chicken stocks that you can find in grocery stores. Something with roasted garlic would add another flavour dimension.
Dumplings: There is a simple recipe for dumplings below, but you could use your favourite biscuit dough for this. For example, Buttermilk Biscuits would work well. You may not need a full recipe though, so either cut the amounts in half or bake any leftover dough as regular biscuits.
How To Make Chicken and Dumpling Soup
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Put butter and onions in a large pot over medium-high heat. Fry until soft.
- Add celery and carrots. Cook for another 4-5 minutes.
- Add poultry seasoning. Cook for 1 more minute. Add broth and bring to a simmer.
- Prepare dumpling dough: Whisk dry ingredients together in a medium bowl and cut in the butter. Add milk and stir well. Set aside.
- Add chicken and vegetables to pot. Stir until combined.
- Add dumpling dough in tablespoon/ping pong ball-sized chunks, onto the top of the soup. Add a bit more broth if needed.
- Cover and let simmer for 13-16 minutes. Keep the lid on tightly for this stage.
- Serve and enjoy.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Chicken and Dumpling Soup
Vegetable Suggestions: If you’d like to add more vegetables to this soup, go for it! Frozen peas, corn, or really any mixed variety of frozen veggies would work well and have plenty of time to cook thoroughly. Broccoli, mushrooms, cauliflower, peppers, and zucchini would all add pops of vibrant colour and flavour. Potatoes, parsnips, and turnips are also great choices, but will need to be cut into fairly small pieces to ensure that they cook properly.
Why The Lid?: For most soups, keeping the lid on wouldn’t be so important. When you’re cooking dumplings, however, you need to trap in all of that steam and heat so that the parts of the dough that are not in the simmering soup can get cooked thoroughly. If you don’t have a lid, use a spoon to gently flip the dumplings over as they cook, so that all sides get submerged in the hot liguid.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Once the soup is fully cooled, you can store it in a sealed container in the fridge for 2-3 days. Reheat in the microwave for a couple minutes or in a pot on the stove.
Freezer: If you’d like to freeze this soup, take out the dumplings first. They won’t freeze or defrost at the same rate as the rest of the soup and the texture may get weird. Make a new batch of dumpling dough when you’re reheating the soup and that way you can have fresh dumplings. As always, try freezing individual portions of soup so that you can take out and reheat single servings when you’re craving an easy, warm meal.
More Delicious Soup Recipes
Looking for more easy soup recipes?
Try this Chicken Noodle Soup for classic comfort food.
Make some rich Creamy Sausage Potato Soup for a satisfying weeknight dinner.
Classic Homemade Minestrone Soup Recipe is another excellent choice if you’re craving a reminder of childhood.
There you go, everyone. A classic, simple chicken and dumpling soup, perfect for a chilly day. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Chicken And Dumpling Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 cup diced white onion
- 4-5 large carrots diced
- 3-4 stalks celery diced
- 2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
- 2 cups diced chicken meat
- 8-10 cups chicken stock, more or less broth for preference
Dumplings
- 1 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- ½ cup milk
Instructions
- Place the onions and butter in a large stockpot or Dutch oven over medium-high heat.
- Fry the onions until soft, then add in the celery and carrots.
- Fry for another 4-5 minutes, then add in the poultry seasoning.
- Fry for 1 minute, then pour in the broth and bring to a low simmer.
- Prepare the dumpling dough – Whisk all of your dry ingredients together. Cut in the butter until it's small pea sized bits in the dry mixture. Add your milk and mix well. Set aside and let it rest for 5 minutes.
- Add in the chicken and the vegetables.
- Add in the dumpling dough by tablespoonful (about the size of a ping pong ball) onto the top of the soup. Ensure there is enough broth, if not you can add more broth and bring it back up to a simmer. The dumplings will absorb some liquid.
- Cover the pot with a tight fitting lid and let it lightly simmer on low for 13-16 minutes. Do not lift the lid during this time. The dumplings are done when a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Serve and Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Laurie says
How much of the homemade seasoning do you use in a soup?
Carolyn Perchaluk says
Great recipe! I make this after Christmas with turkey leftovers. I use the carcass for making broth, and add meat, leftover gravy adds flavour too. I like to add a few diced potatoes with the veg. Helps thicken to a more stew-like consistency. Great way to use remnants in the frig and get more value from that turkey! Hint. I freeze turkey meat in the broth for a future use. That way it’s easy prep and we can enjoy on a cold night when we aren’t so tired of eating turkey.
Carolyn Perchaluk says
Great recipe! I make this after Christmas with turkey leftovers. I use the carcass for making broth, and add meat, leftover gravy adds flavour too. I like to add a few diced potatoes with the veg. Helps thicken to a more stew-like consistency. Great way to use remnants in the frig and get more value from that turkey! Hint. I freeze turkey meat in the broth for a future use. That way it’s easy prep and we can enjoy on a cold night when we aren’t so tired of eating turkey.
Christina Witt says
ALL of your recipes are so good. Will there be a cookbook? I have your Flapper Pie and Blue Prairie Sky cookbook and use it a lot.
Barb Schatz says
Tried this soup, awesome! We loved it, very flavorful, I can’t have onions so anything that has lots of flavor without is a bonus.
Louise seaman says
thanx
Kim says
point 6 states to add chicken & vegetables but the vegetables are already in the pot I believe?
Louise seaman says
lovely soup
Becky Nagy says
Sounds like you have a lot of recipes for using Bisquick which I will try.
Karlynn Johnston says
I love a good shortcut recipe for when we are busy, so yes I have a lot of Bisquick recipes!