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Mennonite Chicken & Dumpling Soup

Mennonite Chicken Dumplings

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Course Main Course
Cuisine American, Amish

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup of butter
  • 2 cups eggs about 12
  • 4 ½ cups of all purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp. baking powder
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • 4 sprigs of parsley finely chopped
  • 3 large carrots peeled and sliced
  • 1 cup of green beans cut to preference
  • 2 ½ cups of shredded chicken
  • large pot of chicken broth or stock

Instructions
 

  • Beat butter until fluffy
  • Add eggs slowly
  • Add dry ingredients and mix until thoroughly blended (don't over-mix it)
  • Flour your hands and form balls slightly larger than golf balls. lay them on a greased tray
  • Make broth and boil sliced carrots and green beans until soft
  • Add parsley and chicken
  • Bring the soup to a rolling boil and carefully spoon in the dumplings
  • Put on the lid and cook for 10-15 minutes or until soft and fluffy. Do NOT open the lid!
  • Do not overcook them or they will fall apart.
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