Chicken and Dumplings Recipe, Nutritional Value
Chicken and dumplings is a comfort food that is often used during colds. While it has no curative properties, the heartiness of the meal makes a difference. This dish consists of a soup with vegetables and dumplings made from flour and chicken. The blandness of the dish also makes it popular as food had during illness. It is a very simple dish to put together.
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ pounds of boneless chicken, cut into small cubes
- 2/3 cup + 1 ½ cup flour
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 2 large carrots and celery stalks, chopped
- 1 large onion, diced
- 2 tablespoon readymade seasoning
- 2 14-ounce cans of stock or water
- 1 cup (additional) water
- 1 cup peas
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ cup buttermilk
- Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation time: 1 hour
Directions & Serving Size:
- Mix some flour to coat the chicken and cook it on the stove top till lightly browned.
- Once the chicken is cooked, add additional oil, seasoning and vegetables.
Cook till the vegetables have softened. - Add some more flour into this mix of chicken and vegetables.
- Mix some flour, baking soda, salt, seasoning and buttermilk to make the dough for dumplings.
- Drop this dough, with tablespoons, into simmering chicken and vegetable soup.
- Cook this on a gentle heat for about 15 minutes, to ensure that dumplings are cooked.
- This portion makes about 6 servings of chicken and dumpling soup
You can also prepare chicken gumbo
Serving Instructions:
This soup is served straight up in individual bowls, with about three dumplings in each bowl.
Nutritional Value Per Serving
- Per serving this soup contains about 465 calories
- It contains 15 grams of fat, which include 3 grams of saturated fat and 7 grams of monounsaturated fat.
- This soup contains 45 grams of carbohydrates and 34 grams of protein.
- The fiber content is 6 grams while cholesterol is 91 milligrams.
- It also contains 629 milligrams of sodium and 412 milligrams of potassium.
Health Benefits: - This dish contains many essential minerals like selenium, iron, vitamin A and vitamin C.
- Its low fat content makes it favorable with weight watchers. Also see nutrition benefits of chicken
Tips and warnings:
Using chicken in this recipe with very little oil makes it a healthy cross between a soup and stew. The dumplings are also very filling. To reduce its carbohydrate content, you could skip the dumplings and add more vegetables. You should also use low-sodium stock or water in place of regular stock to reduce the sodium content.
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