[charla]

I will do my best since I actually made it up as I went.


Charla's Version of Chicken Noodle Soup with Dumplings

Soup
Cooking spray
3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
Olive oil to coat bottom of soup pan
1 onion, diced
1 large clove of garlic, minced
3-4 ribs celery, diced
2 large carrots, sliced
2 quarts chicken broth
2 cups water
2 chicken bouillion cubes
Juice of 1 lemon
2 bay leaves
Salt to taste (I like quite a bit )
1 small package thin short noodles (I wish I could remember the brand ) Maybe about 1 to 1 1/2 cups of those little tiny noodles

Dumplings (I halved a recipe, thus the crazy measurements)
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
Scant 1/2 tsp salt (3/8 tsp)
1 TBSP melted butter
Scant 1/2 cup milk (3/8 cup)

Garnishing soup
Freshly cracked pepper
Shredded Parmesan cheese
I thought later that I wished I had a sprinkling of parsley

Instructions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place chicken breasts on a baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray and roast in oven until cooked through. When chicken is cooked through, remove from oven and cut into small chunks.

Meanwhile, place olive oil in soup pan on medium heat. Add veggies and saute until softened. Add broth, water, bouillion, lemon juice, salt, bay leaves and diced chicken and bring to a boil. Drop in noodles and boil until noodles are almost done, whatever the package says.

While soup is boiling quickly make dumplings. Stir dry ingredients together and mix well. Add wet ingredients and stir until combined. Shape into shooter marble size.

Turn soup down to a bubbling simmer, drop dumplings into soup, cover pot and simmer for 15 minutes without peaking.

Ladle soup in bowl and garnish with cracked black pepper, parmesan cheese and parsley, if desired. Enjoy!!




I hope I remembered it all. If it doesn't make sense or I've forgotten a direction, please let me know.