Chicken and Dumplings
3 | boneless skinless chicken breasts |
10-12 | burrito-size flour tortillas |
2 (10 1/2 | ounce) cans cream of chicken soup |
1/2 | cup butter (not margarine) |
1 | cup milk |
salt | |
pepper |
- Fill 4-quart pot half full with water.
- Boil chicken until tender.
- While chicken is cooking, slice tortillas as pictured .
- Remove cooked chicken and shred with a fork or cut into cubes.
- Place chicken, cream of chicken soup, butter, salt and pepper into boiling chicken broth.
- Bring to a rolling boil.
- Drop individual tortillas into pot one piece at a time.
- Do not stir, you can pat the top of the dumplings and move them around slightly with a wooden spoon.
- Boil medium/high heat for 12 minutes.
- Remove from heat.
- Add 1 cup of milk and move the dumplings around gently to mix the milk.
note to self: do not pour out the boiling water.
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