Easy Chicken and Dumplings Recipe with Flour Tortillas

Chicken and Dumplings are a treat for anyone craving a yummy and spicy kind of dish. The meal is considered an appetizer as it is served before the actual main course.

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The soup is made first and then the dumplings are added to it and simmered in it for a few minutes. The flour tortillas are just used for topping the chicken and Dumplings for adding a touch of crunch to every bite of the dish.

Cooking of chicken

First, you have to cook the chicken or boil it. After boiling the chicken let it cool so that it will be tenderized. Let it cool to handle and then shred this chicken. This shredded chicken when added to the chicken broth gets the required flavor.

Addition of the seasonings

Then all the mandatory seasonings are added to the soup one by one. These seasonings include onion powder and garlic powder for a good pop of onion and garlic flavor in it. Then the salt and pepper are sprinkled to develop the actual taste.

Vegetables for Nutrition

Vegetables like carrots or cabbage can be added to this chicken soup for making it nutritious and flavorful. In this recipe, we are adding only carrots to the soup.

Carrots have so much nutritional importance as it contains vitamins in it. Therefore the chicken and the dumpling dish gets more healthier and delicious.

Dropping the dumplings

You have already prepared the dumplings before adding them to the soup. Make sure they are intact enough and do not break while you add them to the soup. Do not over-stir after adding them as they will break.

Topping with the Tortillas

Flour tortillas are first crushed or sliced. For slicing the flour tortillas, you can use the pizza cutter. Crush these tortillas and spread them all over the top of the soup before serving it. The tortillas add crunchiness to every single bite of the dish. I love to have crunch in my soups.

Benefits of having chicken and dumplings with Tortillas

This recipe is so refreshing and satisfying as you can have it any time on winter days but serving it on cozy winter nights gives so much peace to your soul.

Getting nutrients from this soup and then spending the whole day while being energetic and refreshed has a separate fan base. Moreover, this can also prove to be the main course dish as you don’t need more after this one. It fills your stomach to the fullest.

INGREDIENTS

1 cup milk
2 large flour tortillas
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder
2 cups cooked chicken, shredded
1 (10 oz) can cream of celery soup
1 (10 oz) can cream of chicken soup
2 cups frozen sliced carrot
1/4 tablespoon garlic powder

Method to make the Chicken and Dumplings with Flour Tortillas

To begin the recipe with you need to bring a large-sized non-stick cooking pot that is already washed and cleaned.
Pour the whole of the chicken broth into this pot and turn on the heat at low flame.
In the next step, you must pour the cream of chicken soup into this chicken broth. The addition of celery soup is also essential in the next step. Both the cream and the chicken broth will simmer for 12-15 minutes.
In the simmered and cooking chicken broth, you must add the diced carrots. Bring the cooked and shredded chicken and add it to the cooked broth including the carrots in it.
Then to season up this chicken mixture, add a little onion powder to it. After adding the onion powder, you must add the garlic powder instead.
Sprinkle some salt and also sprinkle a little quantity of pepper. Stir all these seasonings really well using the spatula.
Let it simmer. Bring the tortillas and make slices out of these tortillas. Spread the sliced or crushed tortillas on top of the chicken soup.
Make dumplings and add them to the chicken soup and make sure they do not break up or spread in the dumplings.
Pour milk into the soup and then stir well. Let it settle for some time.
Your chicken and dumplings with flour tortillas are ready to serve.

Conclusion

Easy Chicken and Dumplings recipe with flour tortillas should be made the whole winter in your home. The flour tortillas spread at the top are the best part of this dish.

You must sprinkle more of them in every serving bowl. The recipe is a bit long as you have to prepare the chicken, then cook the soup and then prepare and add the dumplings to it.

Serve the dish in the special eating serving bowls to win the hearts of everyone with the taste and the presentation as everyone would love it.

FAQs?

How to get a thick texture of the chicken and dumplings?

Mix in a tablespoon of cornstarch with a little quantity of water and then stir this slurry into the soup. Stir and let simmer. Your Chicken and Dumpling soup will eventually get thicker.

Why do my dumplings break up in the soup?

When you drop the dumplings all at once in the soup, they break up. You must add them one by one. Also do not stir the soup too much after adding the dumplings to it.

Do we use tortillas for toppings?

Yes, you can top the soup with the tortillas and can also stir them and simmer them in the soup but they will lose their crunch this way. So, it is better to use them this way.

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