Mom's Chicken And Dumplings (chicken Paprika)

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 lbs chicken thighs, skin removed (boneless thighs if you can find them)
• water
• 2 small onions, chopped
• 1 tablespoon butter or 1 tablespoon oil
• 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
• 1 -2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper (to taste)
• 1 -2 tablespoon paprika
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 large egg, beaten
• water

Recipe

• 1 in a stock pot or dutch oven saute onions in butter until tender.
• 2 add water until pot is about 1/3 full.
• 3 add chicken thighs, garlic powder, salt, pepper and paprika.
• 4 make sure water is covering the chicken, if not add more until it just covers.
• 5 bring to a boil and then simmer for 90 minutes, covered, stirring occasionally.
• 6 in the meantime, make the dumplings: mix the flour, salt, pepper and paprika in a medium bowl until combined.
• 7 make a well in the center and drop in the egg and about 1/2 cup water.
• 8 stir and add more water by the tablespoon until you have a sticky dough that just leaves the side of the bowl.
• 9 in a different large pot from chicken, boil water.
• 10 drop dumpling mixture by the teaspoon into the boiling water.
• 11 (i use a regular teaspoon from my flatware, not a measuring spoon.) if dumpling mix is too sticky to drop from spoon, then dip the spoon into the boiling water, the dumpling should slide right off.
• 12 when dumplings start floating on top, remove them with a slotted spoon or drain them.
• 13 you may have to reduce the heat to see when they are floating.
• 14 about 30 minutes before chicken should be done, add the dumplings to the pot with the chicken.
• 15 after 30 minutes, you should have a delicious dish: the chicken should be tender enough that it is falling off of the bone and the dumplings should have made a thicker sauce out of the liquid the chicken was cooking inches.