Dumplings or dumplings?
Someone thinks these products are the same, some are different. But in any case, dumplings (dumplings) are small pieces of dough that are cooked in broth. And many people know this dish since childhood.
Particularly tasty is chicken soup with dumplings, which has many recipes and is prepared with a wide variety of additions.
Chicken Soup With Dumplings - 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-fry. So they better keep their shape, and the dish will get a pleasant taste.
Dumplings are made from eggs and flour. Dairy products, water, boiled vegetables, various spices, oil, greens can be added. Instead of flour, you can use the semolina, or take these products in half. The dough for dumplings is often made viscous, with a consistency resembling sour cream. They are formed with a spoon, dipped in broth. Sometimes dumplings are made from stiff dough, molded by hand or cut with a knife.
As with any other first course, any vegetables, cereals, greens, canned goods and spices can be present in the 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 made from water and eggs.
Ingredients
• half a small chicken;
• water 3 liters;
• some oil or any fat;
• 5 potatoes;
• bulb onion;
• carrot;
• salt, greens.
For dumplings:
• half a cup of flour;
• 2 eggs.
Cooking
1. We wash the chicken, pour water and boil the broth, about 40-50 minutes, depending on the quality of the bird. Then remove the meat, salt to taste the broth. 2. Cut cubed peeled potatoes, dipped in broth.
3. Shred the carrot, cut into cubes the peeled onion bulb. Fry the onions for a couple of minutes, add the carrots and cook until golden. If you like soups without roasting, then simply pour the prepared vegetables into the broth.
4. We disassemble the boiled and already cooled chicken, we lay out the meat in the soup.
5. Knead dough for dumplings. To do this, break the eggs, mix with salt and two tablespoons of water. Pour the flour, the dough should be thick, like pancakes.
6. As soon as the potatoes are soft, but not yet boiled, form dumplings with a spoon, do not forget to soak it in water.
7. Cook the soup for another 5 minutes, season with herbs, spices, try on the salt. Served with sour cream.
Recipe 2: Chicken Soup with Dumpling Decoys
The peculiarity of this chicken soup with dumplings is loose and airy dumplings, which are obtained thanks to semolina. It is advisable to give the dough a little stand before molding, 10 minutes.
Ingredients
• half a kilo 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 40 minutes. Salt the broth.
2. Shred the onion into cubes, carrot straws. Send all together in a saucepan, bring to a boil.
3. Run the diced potatoes.
4. Fork the egg with a spoon of water, salt and gradually add the semolina. Stir.
5. As soon as the potatoes are cooked, form dumplings and boil for 3 minutes.
6. Fill the soup with chopped parsley leaves.
Recipe 3: Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Mushrooms
In this soup with dumplings we will use mushrooms, but you can also take other mushrooms. If they are dried, then first you need to soak and boil. Forest mushrooms also need to boil for 20 minutes.
Ingredients • 600 grams of chicken;
• 3 potatoes;
• 300 grams of champignons;
• onion;
• butter;
• 3 liters of water;
• spices, greens.
For dumplings:
• 50 grams of milk;
• egg;
• spoon of sunflower oil;
• flour.
Cooking
1. Prepare chicken broth. We salt.
2. Shred mushrooms are not very fine, fry in oil almost until tender.
3. Cut the onion, send it to the mushrooms and fry together.
4. Peel the potatoes, cut them in the way we like, run them in the soup.
5. Knead the dough. To do this, beat the egg with milk, salt, add flour and butter. The dough consistency must be made viscous, like sour cream. On request, you can put a little chopped dill in it.
6. As soon as the potatoes are cooked, add the mushrooms with onions. Bring soup to boil.
7. We lay out dumplings, boil until full readiness, fill the dish with greens, turn off and let stand under the lid for 10 minutes.
Recipe 4: Spicy Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Tomato
Rich and colorful soup with dumplings and fresh tomatoes. If necessary, they can be replaced with juice, sauce, pasta or canned tomatoes. Dumplings will be made from a mixture of flour and semolina.
Ingredients
• 6 tomatoes;
• half chicken;
• 3 liters of water;
• 4 potatoes;
• 2 onions;
• one carrot;
• oil, spices, greens.
For dumplings:
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• 2 spoons of semolina;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Cook the chicken almost until tender, then add salt to the soup and add diced potatoes.
2. Grind onions and carrots, as it is convenient for us. Fry in a pan.
3. We wash the tomatoes, cut each in half, grate the three flesh, throw out the skins. Send the tomato to the pan with the vegetables and boil twice.
4. Beat the egg and salt with 20 grams of water, add the 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, fill with greens and turn it off.
Recipe 5: Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Melted Cheese
The dish has a very delicate creamy taste, which is given by processed cheese curds. You can make any dumplings for this chicken soup with dumplings, but we will do it with kefir. Thanks to soda, dumplings are soft, airy, melt in the mouth.
Ingredients
• 400 grams of chicken;
• 4 potatoes;
• 2 cheese;
• 2 liters of water;
• bulb onion;
• greens, salt.
For dumplings:
• half a cup of kefir;
• egg;
• pinch of soda;
• flour.
Cooking
1. Cooking broth from water and chicken. When it is ready, we salt.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices, dip into the pan.
3. Pass the onion in oil. To taste you can add carrots.
4. Knead the dough. To do this, we extinguish soda in kefir, add an egg beaten with a fork with salt, add flour and knead the dough.
5. Spoon the dough into a pan, dip it into the pan, forming dumplings.
6. Cut the cheeses into cubes (grate them) and put them in the soup. Cook two minutes after boiling.
7. Add fried onions, chopped greens and bring to taste. Turn off the stove.
Recipe 6: Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Green Peas
A stunningly bright and light soup that can be cooked with fresh, frozen or canned peas. In any case, it will please the taste. Dumplings will be made 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, chop them to your liking and paste in oil.
3. Boil the potatoes, you can do this with chicken. We take out, knead and crush and cool a little. Add salt, egg, minced dill and flour. Knead the dough. 4. Table well with flour. Roll out the dough sausage with a diameter of 1.5 cm. Cut into pieces.
5. Salt soup, throw dumplings and cook for a minute.
6. Add green peas. Frozen or fresh peas are simply thrown over, with the pickled product you must first decant the liquid. Boil another three or four minutes.
7. Spread the fried onions, add spices, cover and turn off. We give the chicken soup to stand for a quarter of an hour, so that it comes and the taste of the products is combined.
Recipe 7: Chicken Soup with Dumplings and Buckwheat Groats
Many buckwheat is associated with porridge. But not less tasty and nutritious with this grits are the first dishes. 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 cup of buckwheat;
• onion;
• spices, oil;
• carrot.
For dumplings:
• egg;
• 60 ml of milk;
• salt;
• 4-5 tablespoons of flour.
Cooking
1. Cook the broth. In the end, salt and pour the washed buckwheat.
2. Separately, fry the onion in a pan, add carrots at the end and pass together 5 minutes. The form of cutting vegetables at its discretion.
3. Knead the dough from the beaten with salt eggs, milk and flour. Sour cream density.
4. As soon as the buckwheat is cooked, dip the dumplings into the soup with a spoon. Cooking dish for another three minutes.
5. Add fried vegetables, boil, season with spices, greens and evaluate the taste of chicken soup with dumplings.
Recipe 8: Chicken Soup With Dumplings And Meatballs
The soup is cooked quickly, it looks interesting, since both the dumplings and the meatballs are round. For minced meat use chicken fillet, you can with the breast or thigh. If you like fatty meals, 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. Smash one egg and knead the stuffing. If it turned out to be watery, then pour some flour. Form the dipped hands meatballs.
2. Put on the stove two and a half liters of water, salt.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the egg with three spoons of water, add a little green and about 100 grams of flour. Knead the usual dough for forming a spoon.
4. Clean all vegetables, chop. We start the potatoes, after boiling onions with carrots. Cook for 5 minutes.
5. Fry the meatballs in a pan on both sides, no need to bring to readiness. Sent in soup with butter. Cook another 10 minutes.
6. Take a spoon and form dumplings. Boil three minutes.
7. Fill the soup with chopped greens 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, to which canned corn is added. Dumplings will cook on kefir. For broth use any part of the carcass.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of chicken;
• 3 potatoes;
• large onion;
• 2 -2.5 liters of water;
• 200 grams of corn;
• one sweet pepper;
• spices;
• 3 eggs;
• butter.
For dumplings:
• egg;
• 2 spoons of kefir;
• spices;
• 5 tablespoons of flour.
Cooking
1. As usual, prepare chicken broth and salt.
2. We lower chopped potatoes.
3. Fry chopped onion in oil, preferably creamy. Add chopped sweet pepper and pass together until soft.
4. Boil the eggs in a separate bowl, clean and cut in half.
5. Knead dumplings as usual. All mix, add flour to smetannogo consistency.
6. Once the potatoes are soft, start the corn and begin to form dumplings.
7. Cook for 2 minutes, lay out the roasted vegetables, give a good boil, fill the soup with greens and can be turned off.
Chicken Dumpling Soup - Tips and Tricks
• Domestic and farm chickens require more time for boiling due to well-developed muscle tissue. They make aromatic fat, broth yellow and rich. The factory bird 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, add some water to the pan and it will rise to the surface again. You can simply drain the first broth and pour the meat again. It is believed that the dishes on the second broth more healthy and dietary.
• If feathers and pads are left on the bird, you can easily pull them out with tweezers. A small fluff need to burn. To do this, you can use the flame of a gas stove or a newspaper set on fire.
• The smaller the spoon, the more carefully and beautifully the dumplings are obtained, but the process of their preparation is delayed. To make a beautiful soup, you can use the help of the household and shape the products with several hands.
• You can add any greens, paprika, turmeric, and other spices to the dumplings dough. Dumplings will turn out bright, appetizing.
