how to make plain dumplings?

Question

im making stew and want to do it all frm stratch no pkts but carnt make dumplings HELP

Answer 1

Dumplings

1 cup sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup milk
2 tablespoons salad oil

Sift dry ingredients. Combine milk and oil and add all at once to the flour mixture. Stir just until moistened. Drop from tablespoon atop bubbling stew. Cover and return to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 12 to 15 minutes. Do not lift lid during the simmer stage.

Answer 2

Hey! My wife makes a homemade dumpling that is amazing. Buy two cans of the PIllsbury buttermilk bisquits..you know the ones...in the little blue tube..not any of the fancy hungry jack's or anything. Take each of the little biscuits out and place them on a floured surface. Roll them out and then slice them into ribbons..about 3 per biscuit. Then simply put them in the stew...the biscuits will thicken your stew up a bit due to their flour content, so be sure that you don't additionally thicken it. Once you have the dumplings in the stew, let it simmer for about 20 minutes. stirring frequently with a fork to keep them from sticking together. That should do it..they are not 100% home made, but closer than the frozen ones and much tastier.

Answer 3

For plain dumplings

100 g self raising flour
50 g suet
pinch salt
water to mix

Mix flour, suet and salt in a bowl, with a fork mix enough water to bind together, divide into pieces, roll into a ball and pop into the casserole.

Work as quickly as possible once the water has been added and make sure the stew is hot and simmering.

You can use the same proportions for more or less dumplings.

Answer 4

If you want to make the best, it takes a little more work. And you "must" use an egg if you want it not to taste raw without flavor. The egg allows it to absorb more chicken broth.

2 cups all purpose flour (not bread flour)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
5 Tablespoons butter (use real butter, for higher melting point)

Mix until you form a ball. By hands is easiest and fastest. Do a little kneading but not much. Add enough flour so it is not sticky if necessary. Roll it out until it is about 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick, then cut it (pizza cutter works best) into strips.

Here is the trick...
Drop them into your boiling chicken broth one at a time to keep from sticking together. Reduce heat to medium-low and occasionally stir to keep from sticking together for 10-15 minutes. Discard the chicken broth. Then and only then put the dumplings in your soup with the chicken and cook until soup is done.

This recipe is guaranteed over hundreds of times experience.

BTW, the biscuits below is great too.

Answer 5

OLD HUNGARIAN RECEIPE:

1 and 1/2 cups flour
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp..salt
2 TBL. melted butter
pinch nutmeg(optional)
Mix all together until THICK dough forms(may have to adjust flour by a tb. or so depend on humidity.) You want it thick enough to mound on a spoon w/out running off. If too thin they will cook apart in the water. Kinda like THICK cake batter. If they cook apart, add little more flour. These quantities usually work for me.

Drop by tsp. or tbl. full(depend how big you want the dumplings) into BOILING water. Cook for about 5-10 min(depend on size) . remove with slotted spoon and then add to soup, stew, whatever.
You want to cook them first as they will make the soup, stew, etc. too starchy if added directly to it.
makes about 20-25 good size (2") dumplings. These are heavier than the bisquick ones.

Answer 6

Take all purpose flour, mix with water until you have a gummy consistency, put more flour on a flat surface, I sometimes put wax paper down, roll your "batter" into the flour . Roll it out very thin and then cut into strips.
If you make chicken and dumplins, use chicken broth instead of water in your mix.
Make sure your stew is boiling before you drop the dumplings in, after you drop them all in turn down your heat or they will cook away to nothing. This is how my grandma did it and I do now. Good luck, I hope this helps.

Answer 7

2 cups Original Bisquick® mix
2/3 cup milk


1. Stir ingredients until soft dough forms.
2. Drop by spoonfuls onto boiling stew; reduce heat.
3. Cook uncovered 10 minutes. Cover and cook 10 minutes.

Answer 8

1 cup of suet
2 cups self raising flour
salt and pepper
water to add to a dough consistency
mix ingredients roll into 2-3 inch balls
add to stew cook until firm

Answer 9

You'll need Atora Suet.
2oz Atora
4oz Self raising flour
Pinch of salt
5 tablespoons of water
The secret is not to handle to Dumplings with your hands, use a fork to mix

Answer 10

Cick on the link (you'll need suet)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpling#British_cusine