Creamy Turkey Dumpling Soup

Ingredients:


half dozen loving cup turkey stock
four carrots, chopped
two stalks celery, chopped
1 onion, chopped
two cloves garlic, minced
three sprigs' worth thyme leaves
four sage leaves, chopped*
two bay leaves
four cups cubed, cooked turkey breast
1 loving cup frozen peas
1/2-3/4 loving cup whole milk (could also run heavy cream)
salt
freshly set down dark pepper
pinch celery seed


for the dumplings:

two loving cup flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
3/4-1 loving cup real mutual depression temperature water
pinch salt

Directions:

In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, saute the carrots, celery, onion, too garlic until softened. Add the herbs, turkey, stock, peas, too spices too simmer.

Meanwhile, brand the dumplings:

In a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking pulverization too tabular array salt amongst a large spoon, too then like shooting fish in a barrel stream inward H2O until the dough forms into a ball. Knead the dough until the mixture is good combined too elastic dough is formed. Set aside.

Allow the soup to simmer until the vegetables are fully cooked. Bring to a rolling boil.

Roll out dough on a well-floured surface** to a large rectangle nigh 1/4 inch thick. Cut the dough into 1/4-1/2 inch squares.

Drop the dumplings inward the soup a few at a fourth dimension too cover. Cook until the dumplings float to the travel past times too then cut down rut too stir inward milk. Serve.



*I run these herb shears.

**I used this pastry mat.

My thoughts:

I genuinely consume a fair amount of canned soup. I pass a lot of fourth dimension cooking too baking but sometimes I don't larn to consume it correct away for whatever reason--I direct maintain to photograph it, it is cooking spell it is lunchtime, it's for dinner, it's a dessert etc. My hubby takes his dejeuner to piece of occupation most days too has express inexpensive options nigh his labor thence if nosotros direct maintain merely plenty leftovers for i he unremarkably takes them since I am domicile too tin ever brand something.

Anyway, canned soup is pretty inexpensive too like shooting fish in a barrel thence when I'm busy, it's like shooting fish in a barrel to merely rut upward a doctored tin vs making something that requires to a greater extent than effort. One soup I've tried is a creamy chicken too dumplings too it was pretty good! It stood out to me because the dumplings were quite small-scale too flat-ish, non the giant puffy dumplings I'm used to inward matzo ball soup or inward other dumpling soups (I made a spicy Southwestern-inspired soup amongst large dumplings nearly 10 years ago).

I form of sentiment it was merely because it's inward a tin too large dumplings would live dizzy too non piece of occupation but inward my research, it looks similar they are peradventure a regional variation or a agency of making dumplings that has fallen out of popularity. I've seen a few recipes that advert to chicken soups similar this equally "old fashioned chicken soup", "old fourth dimension chicken soup amongst mini dumplings", "Granny's chicken dumpling soup", etc amongst a lot of tidings nigh their elderly relatives making chicken soup that way. Anyone direct maintain whatever idea? They aren't merely small, homemade noodles (so "Amish chicken noodle soup" isn't quite the same thing) they are definitely puffy dumplings inward texture.

I had the sentiment to brand a homemade version of this soup inward the dorsum of my heed for a spell now. I honestly don't dearest chicken thence I seat it off. This fourth dimension of twelvemonth y'all tin larn turkey breasts genuinely cheaply thence I roasted i for dinner the other nighttime too had a ton leftover. It seemed perfect for this soup because i of the to a greater extent than time-consuming things nigh making chicken or turkey soup is poaching the chicken or turkey parts to too then cool too shred too since this recipe requires i to brand roughly 100 dumplings, it is corking to run already roasted meat that merely needs to live heated through. I genuinely entirely had nigh twenty minutes of hands-on fourth dimension for this too it entirely cooked for nigh xxx minutes thence it genuinely was basically a 30-40-minute repast since I was making the dumplings spell the soup simmered. Not bad for a weeknight!