Easy Chicken and Dumplings

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Listen for the last three years people have been asking me I hate to say it like that but I'm gonna tell the truth they've been saying hey make chicken and dumplings and listen because I make it so often you know what I mean I just these are the things that just get overlooked like I don't make spaghetti but I make a palm spaghetti you know I mean because I make it all the time listen I don't want to ramble I'm just gonna pan over these ingredients so you guys can see it and then don't forget the dish and down below in the description box is the full ingredient list so let's look down here you could just see look and let me just start all right look how big this is right here this is a big onion but as you see listen these are the ingredients as we pan across and I'm gonna start right here on the chicken because I did use look this is boneless skinless chicken thighs this right here this this is what's gonna level it up right and then we got chicken stock then we got our utensils so enough of this talking I don't want to you know continue over-talking so let's get it okay so look I didn't want to bore you guys I went ahead and just diced my onions right you guys can dice them you can cut them into like you know quarters however you want to do it but for me I like to dice mine so the first thing I'm gonna do I'm gonna bring this up to a medium-high heat drop my butter in we gonna melt that and then we're gonna start with the onions first now I always talk about things being super easy and fast to make now that we doing you know we starting to saute these onions now we're gonna go ahead and chop our celery and our carrots all right so we'll just go ahead and cut these down like this you don't I don't dice them all only just really do my onions that way but here you can cut these a little bit bigger as you can with the onions but this is the way I like it to be right here so I'm gonna set this off over here now we're getting ready to work with these carrots now I'm gonna go ahead and just start adding you know the rest of my veggies no particular order you just want to get them in here and start breaking these down okay so look this has been going on for about three minutes look at that you can see the way the onions are broke down and then this is they coated with the butter and starting to like heat up from the steam this is where you want it to be about right here right so now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna add my thyme then I'm gonna bring my chicken and if you notice the way I'm doing it I'm laying them flat so they kind of like just smother the veggies and help it steam now this right here this is six cups so this is a four cups Pyrex I'm not gonna go ahead and measure that out I know I got six cups in here so we're gonna take this and I'm gonna start adding it and again I might not say this in the very beginning but this is 33% less sodium remember we watching our intake so now we'll add two cups okay so now that we got all of our chicken broth in there I'm gonna go ahead and take my bay leaf and then we're just gonna put the bay leaf we're gonna put it in there and I like to just submerge it now remember I got it on medium-high heat right so it's nothing really did like stir you know I mean the veggies are gonna loosen up as the chicken kind of like floats up off of it anyway so I'm gonna put this like that I'm gonna add my top we're gonna bring this to a boil and then we're gonna let it simmer for about 30 minutes after that then we're gonna move over to the next step now what I okay this already came up to a boil I reduced it a little bit so we're gonna let this continue for 30 minutes now we're gonna go ahead and make our dumplings so you want to get yourself like a medium you know medium-sized bowl right you're gonna take the rest of your ingredients and we're gonna mix these up and then we gonna go ahead and make these dumplings now I'm gonna start with my flour baking powder now look if you look at the ingredients down in the description box below this is that old-school shortening everybody remember they grandma had this or some some type of lard or something on that stove right so then we're gonna add this also we're gonna give it just a couple of pinches of salt and last we're gonna add our buttermilk and then we're gonna go ahead and get you know mix it up now if you got a pastry blender you can use that I don't have one I do have one but couldn't find it so I'm gonna go ahead and just use you know like just this fork right here so we're just gonna work this just like you see here and get it all incorporated until it forms a dough okay so look I went ahead and put my hands in here you know what I mean and you got to get your hands dirty so I use my thumbs I kind of like just keep folding it over like this till I got it mixed and then I take it look you see how this is it's nice and sticky I ran this around the side of the bowl to make sure that I got all the flour you know what super easy just like that and then we finna make these dumplings now let me check on our broth and let's move on to the next thing okay my time's up go ahead and reduce it oh man soon as you open this up just the fragrance that it you know the aroma that it gives off that right here is right okay so listen if you guys have watched a video that I did of a barbecue chicken dip if you watch that you'll know about this little trick right here so look we finna shred I'm using my KitchenAid mixer you guys can use a regular hand mixer however you want to do it but I let that drip listen so we're not gonna do no more shredding and nothing like that we're you know hand shred we're not gonna use those two forks we're just gonna take it just like you see right here okay so got it all in there check it out lock it and then I'm gonna turn it on low so we'll just ease it up and then as they get smaller you can just raise the you know the speeds up speed up okay and as you can see we got shredded chicken okay so now that we done with the you know we done with the chicken right the shredding now we come back to our dumpling right you guys can do it however you want to I'm just gonna take a little piece like this and when you say dumpling take a look right here this is getting ready to start to boil again because we're gonna bring this to a simmer you just want to go ahead and just start adding these just like you see here it's up to you how many you want to add you know I mean but you want everybody to get it and then the sizes can vary you know I try to like put them somewhere where they're not on top of each other okay I'm putting in my last couple now you see it simmering right now we're gonna let it simmer and cook the dumplings for about I say about eight to ten minutes we're gonna see how they are after eight minutes and if we like the way they are then we're gonna go ahead and add bring you know introduce our chicken okay so here now we'll just go ahead and start you know cutting up our excuse me dicing down our parsley okay it's been eight minutes and I actually just sampled one of them it's almost right on the money now you remember this right here oh yeah now what we're gonna do is we're just gonna add this you know to it be careful so that when it splashes if it does it doesn't get on you okay so now I'm just gonna make sure we get this blended in here and now that we have it shredded look at it right there we want that to absorb some of this oh man this right here is fire folks and using that blender gets it shredded just right that's up to you guys if you want it to be more chunky you know you cut your pieces how you want them to be you can add more chicken take away chicken however you want to it'll be strictly customizable you know but this right here is what we're looking for right here now I'm gonna let this cook for about five or ten no about five or six minutes and then when that's done we gonna go ahead and put it in a bowl and then we finish sampling you know what after saying that then I start remembering look we got parsley so I'm gonna add my parsley to it gotta add that hey just the way the green makes it pop pop and it does add some flavor to it also so it's up to you how much you put in here you know but I'm gonna save some for a little garnish also but look at this right here you want just to cook along with it you know along with that five or six minutes okay so this is done look it's been exactly five minutes so I'm gonna go ahead and turn this off oh luckily I found my baby we're gonna take this out oh yeah you could just feel even when you touch them look how soft that is look I'm gonna show you how soft it is no resistance see how that just breaks loose look just tears right off all right let me hurry up and get this in a bowl so we can taste it now right here you guys can get up close and personal with it right now look I want you to take a look at that liquid listen this is more like a on a soup type version that's the way we like it here now if you guys want to make it thick so it'd be like something similar to like a pot pie or something like that go ahead and get yourself three to four tablespoons of cornstarch and then equal parts in cold water mix it and cook it in there and to thicken right up let me know what you guys think down in the comment section below all right so now's the time you know I mean to go here I don't even know where to go but look I just want to go ahead and do this right now so you guys can just see how look how soft that is let's get some of that some of this celery let's see let's get a little chicken and that right flavorful look the dumplings are nice and soft and they're flavorful too you know cooking in that broth just does it for you I can just tell you you can taste all of that inside of there I don't want to like over talk it try to sell it to you guys you got to make it look it's winter time let's get down let's just raise up you know our repertoire add this to the rotation and this right here to get you going now let me give me a napkin let me wipe my mouth hey listen this is just like again I don't want to sell it you guys got to make it come back and let me know down in the comment section below you know what you think about this now some people like it to be a little bit more on the thick side you can go ahead and add like a cornstarch slurry to it you know thicken it up a little bit but if you ask me I like it just the way it is right here you guys can you know custom make it and do it the way you guys do it right and also you see I didn't put a lot of salt in there I like it like this because listen I watch my salt intake my sodium intake right so look this right here I've already trained my palate you know I mean so a little bit of salt goes a long ways when it comes to myself right but for those that think that it needs some more just you know that you know pass the salt over to them and you let them salt their individual bowls themselves now with that being said check it out listen if you're new to my channel let me just take this time to say hey thank you for watching this channel don't forget to like smash that subscribe button and tell everybody out there there's a channel out here that's simplifying these recipes and taking the mystery out of cooking and you know what it's actually a hot day out here in California but I'm finna get down with this right now and I'm out of here peace