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Southern Chicken 'n Dumplings

A Southern chicken and dumpling dish made with chicken, butter, flour, milk, oil, and broth.

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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Southern Chicken 'n Dumplings

Time10-15 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the broth

  1. Place chicken and butter in a Dutch oven and cover with water.

  2. Boil on medium-high until chicken is done.

  3. Remove chicken, debone, and pull apart.

  4. Return chicken to broth and set heat to medium.

Make the dough

  1. Place flour in a large bowl and make a well in the middle.

  2. Add milk and vegetable oil.

  3. Stir to make a firm dough.

  4. Knead dough a few times until dough is no longer sticky. Add more flour, if necessary.

  5. Roll out dough on a floured surface and cut into strips.

Cook and season

  1. Drop dough into broth.

  2. Add salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Cook 10-15 minutes on low.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

996Calories
52 gProtein
38 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 7 of 8 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 7 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Chicken100g cooked165
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Chicken + milktop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,389 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-hexanal (fruit).

  4. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Chicken + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,902 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Chicken breasts
Provide the meat and flavor that the broth is built on.
Self-rising flour
Forms the dough that becomes the tender dumplings.
Butter
Adds richness and fat to the cooking broth.
Milk
Adds moisture to the dough and softens its texture.
Vegetable oil
Adds fat that keeps the dumpling dough tender.

The step that matters

Knead the dough only until it is no longer sticky. Overworking dough develops gluten and makes dumplings tough and chewy, while adding flour only as needed keeps the dough soft and workable.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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