Pepper Basham's Quick Chicken and Dumplings from Grandma!

Chicken & Dumplings (fast-style)

(Makes a BIG pot - so half the recipe for smaller families. We have a family of 7 and usually have leftovers)

It's a great low-cost dish for the amount you get.

1. 5-6 boneless/skinless chicken breasts - cover with water and boil until done

2. Take out chicken and quarter.

3. Return quartered pieces to water (pour out excess water until the water is about an inch above quartered chicken pieces)

4. Add 1 stick of butter

5. Add 1/2 cup milk

6. salt & pepper to taste

7. Use Bisquick recipe for dumplings (usually 2-2 1/2 cup of mix and 3/4-1 c milk)

8. Drop mixture by the spoonful into boiling chicken mixture. reduce to low or low-medium

9. Cool uncovered for 10 minutes

10. Cover and cook for 10 more minutes until dumplings are fluffy

12. Serve and enjoy

Note from Pepper:

My Granny taught me this recipe when I was seventeen years old, but she made me learn the old-fashioned way before she taught me the 'quick' way. (Old-fashioned without having to kill and pluck the chicken :-) This is the easy, lower cost, faster-life recipe. If you use the 'boned' chicken, the recipe has a whole lot more flavor - and of course, if you make homemade dumplings, you can modify the dumplings to be the type you like.

Chicken and Dumplings are fairly easy to add vegetables as well. Some people add peas into the chicken mixture, just before adding the dumpling mixture.