Southern comfort!
Ingredients
- boneless, skinless chicken meat: 4 pound
- carrots: 2 piece (sliced)
- sweet potatoes: 3 piece (cubed)
- Irish potatoes: 3 piece (cubed)
- onions: 5 piece
- water: 5 cups
- salt: (to taste)
- ground black pepper: (to taste)
- bay leaf: 1 piece
- stalks celery tops: 3 piece
- pinch cayenne pepper: 1 piece
- all-purpose flour: 2 cups
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- baking powder: 1 tsp
- rendered chicken fat: 4 Tbsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Place chicken in a large pot. Add salt and pepper, a dash of cayenne, a bay leaf, and a handful of celery tops. Cover with water, and cook until done. Discard bay leaf. Add vegetables, and continue cooking until vegetables are nearly done.
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Meanwhile, make the dumplings. Mix together flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, baking powder, chicken fat. Mix in enough water to make a stiff dough. Divide dough into three parts. Roll out, and cut into squares.
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Add 1/3 dumplings to simmering chicken, and cook 5 minutes. Add another third, and cook 5 minutes more. Add the remaining third, and cook 5 minutes longer. Serve.
