Fall is here! One of the things that cooler temperatures mean to me are yummy soups! What are some of your favourite soup recipes or things to bake in the fall?
I thought I would share my favourite dumpling recipe with you today, well, it’s the only one I’ve ever used haha. I asked a question a bit ago of what kinds of things people would like to read on here and one was recipes. 🙂 I tend to make the same things over and over but love trying new things. So trying to add more of my favourite things here to share with all of you.
This recipe is one I got from my Grandmother a long time ago. That would be my Mothers’ Mother. (Memere). I used to call her often to get a recipe or to ask how to cook something because she was a great cook, and she loved cooking for a crowd. Iv’e always been a little disappointed that I don’t have all of her recipes in her own writing, I have some but not the ones I make often. I saved this one on its original paper, when I make it I can still remember having that conversation on the phone with her that day. 🙂
I’ll share the my chicken frico recipe (French acadian way of saying chicken soup) haha then I will share my dumpling recipe.
Chicken frico recipe
- 4-5 chicken breasts or thighs (bone in and skin on), boil with salt, pepper, summer savoury and onion in a large pot filled about 1/2 full with water. If you like barley, you could add some as well, I would add it after the chicken is boiling for a while because it takes a lot longer to cook than the veggies.
- when the chicken is cooked, remove them from the water, remove the skin and bones from the chicken and chop to bite sized pieces. Add chicken back to the pot of water.
- Then add the veggies you like, I use carrots, potatoes and turnip.
- If there is not enough water to cover the veggies, add a little more water or chicken broth, more salt and pepper and more summer savoury (to your taste)
- If you like a thicker soup, when it’s almost done cooking you can all a little flour mixed very well with cool water to the pot (like you would for a gravy), but remember it will thicken more, just like gravy, when its cooking.
Dumplings
- 1 cup flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon of salt
- 1 egg beaten
- 1/3 cup milk
- 2 tablespoons of melted fat (I use oil)
Mix all together. It’s important to wait until the soup is almost ready, turn the pot to low then spray a small spoon with non stick spray ( the dough is sticky) then scoop small scoops around the top of your soup, I sprinkle summer savoury on the top. Then place the cover back on and leave for 15 minutes DO NOT OPEN THE COVER for those 15 minutes.
Enjoy! 🙂
What are some of your favourite soup recipes?
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