Chicken soup with tender dumplings is quick to cook. And affordable ingredients are used for it. Such soup always comes out mouth-watering and tasty to the delight of children and adults. <br /><br />✅ Ingredients: <br />• chicken – 14 oz / 400 g <br />• potato – 10 oz / 280 g <br />• carrot – 3 oz / 90 g <br />• onion – 5 oz / 140 g <br />• salt – 2 tsp <br />• 1 bay leaf <br />• ground black pepper – ½ tsp <br />• vegetable oil – 1 tbsp <br />• all-purpose flour – 3 oz / 80 g <br />• 2 eggs <br />• dill – 1 tbsp <br />• 1 carrot <br />• 1 onion <br />• 2 celery stalks <br />• water – 8 cup / 2 l <br /><br />✔︎ You will need: <br />• bowl <br />• stockpot <br />• carving board <br />• tea or coffee spoon <br />• pan <br /><br /> Preparation: <br />1. Lay a carrot, an unpeeled onion, celery and chicken into the stockpot. <br />2. Pour in 8 cup / 2 l of water, bring to a boil over high heat, skim the froth and reduce the heat to low, cover with a lid and cook for 30 minutes. <br />3. Dice the onion, grate the carrot coarsely. Add 1 tbsp of vegetable oil into the pan and fry the onion over medium heat for 2 minutes, then add the carrot and fry for another 4 minutes. <br />4. Take the chicken and veggies out of the broth, debone the chicken and cut into small pieces. <br />5. Add the diced potato, a bay leaf and salt into the broth and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. <br />6. Making dumplings: add ½ tsp of salt and 2 eggs to the flour and mix until smooth with a fork. <br />7. Add the chicken meat and fried onion and carrot into the stockpot and cook for another 3 minutes over low heat. <br />8. Make dumplings with a tea or coffee spoon – dip a spoon into the soup, then scoop ⅓ or ½ of the dough and dip into the soup, add the whole dough this way. <br />9. Cover with the lid and cook over low heat for 5 minutes, switch the heat off. <br />10. Add the chopped-up dill and ½ tsp of ground black pepper. <br /><br />❗️Advices: <br />1. To get a tasty and hearty soup it is necessary to cook proper broth, so be sure to add listed veggies when cooking it. Rinse onion in its peel well, it adds a golden color to broth. <br />2. Serve chicken soup with dumplings hot. <br />3. Dumplings grows while cooking, so add a dough with a small spoon into soup. <br />4. Bay leaf can add a bitter taste to soup, so add it 10-15 minutes before end of cooking and take it out as soon as heat is switched off.
