Homemade Chicken Dumping Soup is one of our family’s all-time favorite meals. When the nights are long and the days are cold, homemade chicken soup with dumplings is the first thing we think of when we need something hot, comfortable, and delicious.

Homemade Chicken Dumpling Soup

This recipe is similar to some of my other chicken soup recipes, but adding dumplings to it is our family’s favorite thing, ever. Much to my chagrin, since MY specialty is homemade soup noodles. My husband brought these to our family, courtesy of his parents, and all 7 of our kids prefer them to noodles, even if they humor me sometimes. I don’t blame them. Homemade dumplings are pretty incredible.

You’ll be surprised at how EASY they are to make, too.

For some unknown reason, people seem to believe making dumplings is time-consuming. They aren’t.

Homemade dumplings are pretty failsafe. You would have to go out of your way to mess them up.

The dough is made with just a few simple ingredients; you only have to be concerned about not making them too wet or too dry.

Too wet, and they will lose their shape and cook unevenly. Too dry, and they will crumble into pieces. However, don’t let that discourage you. The fact is, even if you made them too wet or dry they will still cook up and taste just fine.

If you get them just right, then you will be easily able to spoon them out in even-sized dollops. They will float up in the broth when they are done and roll around. You will feel a smile grow in proportion to your appetite.

Serve with a Homemade Caesar Salad!

Chicken Dumpling Soup shopping list

Wondering if you have to hit the store? Here’s the list of items you’ll need to make this recipe. For specific amounts, please refer to the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.

Roasted chicken stock (or boxed chicken stock)
Carrots
Celery
Onion
Chicken
Flour
Eggs
Milk
Salt

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How to make Chicken Soup with Dumplings

This is just the overview so you can see what you’re actually getting into here. When you are cooking, you’ll want to use the full recipe at the bottom of the page.

Simmer

Heat your chicken stock along with the onions, carrots, and celery. Once the vegetables are tender, add in the cooked, cubed chicken.

Mix

Whip up the dumpling mix while the soup is coming back up to a simmer.

Drop

Using a large spoon, drop scoops of dumpling mix into the gently simmering broth. Repeat until all of the dumplings are in, and then cover the pot.

Low Boil

Turn the heat up to medium/medium-high and let it come to a low boil. Let the dumplings cook for 5 minutes.

Enjoy

Serve with fresh bread and salad.

Use our Traeger Grilled Chicken in this recipe!

Chicken Dumpling Soup FAQ

What’s the best way to store and reheat leftovers?

Keep your leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days, max. If you want to keep it longer than that, it can be frozen as well. The dumplings will lose some quality during the freeze and reheat process, so ideally if you’re going to freeze, freeze only the soup base and vegetables and make your dumplings fresh.

Make this with these delicious homemade Milk Rolls!

What should you serve with chicken dumpling soup?

You can serve chicken soup and dumplings either as an appetizer or a main course. It works perfectly as the soup to go with a salad for lunch.

Greek Salad – The ingredients in this salad all compliment the flavors of the chicken soup so perfectly that you almost feel like it is one dish
Caprese salad with balsamic reduction – Tomatoes and mozzarella cheese also feel like you could lay them on top of the soup to make a whole new dish. This salad is bright and creamy and full of zing from the balsamic dressing.
Broccoli salad – Talk about a healthful home run!
Traegar Grilled Steak Kabobs – Steak kabobs are not too filling so they make a perfect accompaniment to the chicken soup with dumplings!

Yield: 8 servings

Chicken and Dumpling Soup

Name: Chicken and Dumpling Soup
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 batch of roasted chicken stock*; 2 cups sliced carrots; 2 cups sliced celery; 1 cup diced onion; 3 cups diced chicken; 3 cups flour; 12 eggs; 1/4 cup milk; 1/2 teaspoon salt

Comforting, homemade soup with chicken, fresh vegetables, and fresh homemade dumplings!

Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes

Ingredients

Soup

1 batch of roasted chicken stock*
2 cups sliced carrots
2 cups sliced celery
1 cup diced onion
3 cups diced chicken

Dumplings

3 cups flour
12 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon salt

Instructions

Heat the stock, carrots, celery, and onion to a simmer. Cook until the vegetables are tender.
Toss in the chicken and while the soup is coming back to a simmer, mix up your dumplings.

Dumplings

In a large bowl mix your eggs, milk, and salt together.
Mix in your flour one cup at a time for the first two cups.
Slowly add in small amounts of the last cup of flour until the consistency of the batter allows it to plop off of a spoon instead of pouring or running off.
Mix until there are no big lumps, and then stop. Don't overmix!
Bring the stock of the soup up to a simmer and start dropping the dumplings into it with a spoon.
After all the dumplings are in the stock, cover the pot and turn the heat up to medium-high.
Bring to a boil for five minutes, and the dumplings will be cooked.

Notes

* If you don't have roasted chicken stock on hand, you can also use boxed chicken stock as well.

Chicken and Dumpling Soup