Chicken Dumpling Soup

This is one of our favorite soups on a cold winter day.  It makes a good meal in itself.

Dough Ingredients:

2 Cups Flour

1 Egg

1 tsp. Baking powder

1 tsp. Salt

Milk (I used 5 ounces) depends on dough consistency

Soup Ingredients:

6 cups water

4 medium potatoes

1/2 stick butter

3 tsp Chicken base

1 can cream of chicken soup

5 Cups Milk

1 Cup Cream

Salt & Pepper to taste

Shredded Chicken (from leftovers or a rotisserie chicken works great)

Directions:

Start boiling the water. Peel and dice the potatoes. Cook the potatoes in the boiling water and add butter, salt-and-pepper, chicken base, and cream of chicken soup. Cook 20 minutes. Meanwhile mix all dough ingredients. I use my KitchenAid mixer with the dough hook on speed 2. Make sure to scrape the bowl and mix until resembles a dough. Split the dough into 3 pieces. Take a piece of dough and split in half, roll each half into a long snake. When the 20 minutes are up add the milk, cream and chicken. Bring to a boil. Cut the dough into very small pieces over the boiling soup. Simmer 30 minutes or until done.

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The leftovers can easily be made into a great pot pie by adding some mixed vegetables and using 2 refrigerated pie crusts.  Bake @ 375° for about 35 minutes or until golden brown.