Chicken and Dumplings

Name: Chicken and Dumplings
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch; 1 1/2 cups low-fat, low-sodium chicken broth; 1 cup whole milk; 3 large celery stalks, sliced thin on the diagonal; 1 medium yellow onion, sliced thin; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2 cups shredded skinless breast meat from a rotisserie or roast chicken; 2/3 cup Bisquick Heart Smart baking mix; 1/3 cup buttermilk; 1/4 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

December 9, 2011

This is a southern comfort food dish that some say came straight out of the Great Depression as a way to stretch a little bit of chicken to feed a big family. Flour and fat are combined to form a dumpling (such a sweet name for such an insidious food, don’t you think?) that is then is cooked in broth. In real life, those sweet little dumplings are calorie bombs that call for a healthier version—like this one.

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