DELICIOUS Gluten Free Chicken and Dumplings
Can I tell you that when this gluten free world began, my husband and I looked at each other and didn’t understand. That is until one day he noticed anything with gluten made him feel bloated and uncomfortable.
Hence, the moving to more gluten free recipes began.
Has that happened to you? Are there members of your family or friends that are steering clear of gluten?
I just assumed last week that if I switched out Bob’s 1 to 1 gluten free flour for dumplings that I would get the same product.
WRONG!
My husband did NOT complain with those gluten free chicken and dumplings…but the consistency of the dumpling dough was far from right.
Enter…the NEW delicious and easy version of gluten free chicken and dumplings today.
I knew that doughs often need more moisture with gluten free flours, but today, I doubled the milk in my original recipe.
Nothing else changed except an ease of using chicken broth and chicken that I had already cooked.
So, here’s the BEST gluten free chicken and dumplings recipe. Better than ANY I have made with gluten flours.
You heard that right.
Gluten Free Chicken and Dumplings
Equipment
- 1 dutch oven
- 1 chef's knife
- 1 cutting board
- 1 set Measuring cups/spoons
- 1 liquid measuring cup
- 1 strip parchment paper
- 1 Stove
Ingredients
- 5 C chicken broth
- 4 C boneless, skinless chicken breasts- cooked and cut into bite size pieces or rotisserie chicken
- 2 T butter
- 1 stalk celery, finely diced
- 1 whole carrot, peeled and grated
- 1/2 C onion, diced
- 1 T Better than Bouillon chicken stock
Dumplings
- 2 C Bob's 1 to 1 gluten free flour
- 1 t baking powder
- 1/2 t salt
- 1/3 C shortening, butter, or coconut oil
- 1 1/4 C milk
Instructions
- Chop onion and celery and add to dutch oven with butter to saute until translucent.
- Grate carrots and set aside.
- Add chicken broth and Better than Bouillon to stock pot.
- If cooking chicken in broth, cut chicken into cubes and drop into broth to bring to a boil. If using rotisserie chicken, cut into bite sized pieces and add to broth.
- Add grated carrot into broth mixture.
- While chicken is cooking, make dough for dumplings.
Dumplings
- Add flour, baking powder, and salt into a mixing bowl and whisk together.
- With a pastry blender, cut shortening, butter or coconut oil into flour mixture until it looks like coarse crumbs.
- Pour in milk and stir to make a wet dough.
- Lay out parchment paper and place dough in one side of parchment paper and fold paper over to roll dough in between the parchment paper.TIP: make sure that you have a large enough piece of paper to roll dough out to 1/4" thickness between the two pieces of paper.
- Cut dough into strips about 1" long and wide.
- Drop dough into the boiling broth one at a time, separating them as you drop them into the liquid to prevent them from sticking together.
- Cook until dumplings are puffy and broth has thickened.
- Add to bowls and serve immediately.
Notes
TIP: Using rotisserie chicken and chicken broth makes this recipe quick and easy.
The perfect comfort food recipe when gluten free needs to be an option and gluten needs to be left out of menus.
If you want a chicken and dumpling recipe that begins with cooking a whole chicken and those that don’t need to be gluten free click here for the recipe.
Whether gluten free or gluten full…I got you covered!
Tis the season for a great bowl of chicken and dumplings!
Enjoy!
7 Comments
Martha Wallace
Love making this for Gabriel! They certainly are yummy!
Leslie J Watkins
Hope he loves it!
Jen
Oh my goodness! This looks delicious, Leslie. Our family doesn’t follow a gluten-free lifestyle, but my in-laws do so this is a perfect recipe to save and prepare for the next time they visit.
Thank you for sharing and I can’t wait to share a link to your recipe in my weekly recap today!
Leslie J Watkins
Oh, my goodness! So happy I could help! I’m not gluten free but this creation was amazing. Thank you so very much for sharing the recipe! Made my heart so very happy!
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Theresa Libert
This my dear is a true southern chicken and dumplings recipe. This is how we eat dumplings in the south. Thank you
Leslie J Watkins
Oh, you are so very welcome. Thank you! It’s our favorite, too.