I was feeling a little under the weather lately so I made myself my favorite Chicken and dumplings soup! This definitely cured me and it’s the best comfort food of all time!

Ingredients for soup:

• 1 whole chicken
• 4 chopped carrots
• 5 celery stalks chopped
• 1 chopped onion
• 5 cups of chicken stock
• 1 dried bay leaf
• 3 sprigs of fresh thyme
• 1 tbsp of poultry seasoning
• salt and pepper to taste

Ingredients for dumping:

• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 tsp fresh chopped thyme leaves
• 2 cups self-rising flour
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

In a Dutch oven pot add 5 cups of chicken broth and add 1 whole chicken to the pot. Then add the chopped carrots, celery, and onion. Throw in the bay leaf and sprigs of thyme and the poultry seasoning. Bring to a boil and as soon as it starts boiling, turn the heat down to low, cover the pot and let cook for 1 hour. An hour later take out the cooked chicken out of the pot and set aside to cool. Turn the heat back up and when it starts simmering take a ladle and skim the fat from the top and reserve in a bowl. At this point you want to taste your soup and add salt and pepper as desired. To the bowl that you reserved the chicken fat, add 2 table spoons of flour and mix till all incorporated. Then gradually add soup to the mixture little by little, then just dump it all into the soup and mix. This will thicken up the soup a bit. Let the soup simmer a bit and while the soup is simmering start taking apart the chicken at this point the chicken should have cooled enough, pick out all the meat and discard the rest. Add the chicken to the soup and let simmer some more. While its simmering you  can finally move on to the last step, making the dumplings. In a large bowl add sour cream, milk, eggs, chopped thyme and pinch of salt and pepper and mix it all together. Then gradually add the flour and mix it in but DO NOT over mix. Once the flour is all incorporated take 2 large spoons and pick up  the batter with one spoon and with the other help push the dumpling on top of the soup. Form all the dumpling on top and once your done, cover the pot with a lid and let simmer for 15 minutes. Do not take off the lid until 15 minutes has passed. Afterward when you take off the lid you will see the beautiful and fluffy dumplings

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. They will be perfectly cooked if you followed the exact directions.

You can now serve and enjoy this amazing comfort food that is proved to cure many sicknesses. ENJOY!