Healthy Chicken and Dumplings Soup
The best healthy homemade chicken and dumpling soup. Made from scratch whole wheat dumplings and loads of rotisserie chicken. It is quick, easy and truly comfort in a bowl.
Servings: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon avocado oil or olive oil
- 2 celery ribs diced
- 1 yellow onion diced
- 4 carrots peeled and diced
- 2 garlic cloves minced
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 bay leaf
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 2 cups shredded rotisserie chicken
Dumpling
- 2 large egg whites
- ½ cup cottage cheese small curds
- ¼ cup milk any kind
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
Instructions
- In a large Dutch oven or pot, add oil and heat on medium heat. Once the oil has heated, add the celery, onion, carrots, and garlic. Cook for 5-7 minutes, until onions are translucent.
- Add the salt, pepper, thyme and bay leaf. Stir to combine. Add the broth and bring it to a simmer.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl mix the egg whites, cottage cheese, and milk, until combined. Add the flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and parsley. Mix until combined, do not over mix as this can make the dumplings too dense.
- Add the shredded chicken to the simmering chicken broth.
- Drop a heaping tablespoon full of the dumpling batter at a time into the simmering soup broth. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes, or until the dumplings are cooked all the way (use the toothpick test to see if it comes out clean). *Do not lift the lid during the initial 15 minutes of cooking. The dumplings need the steam in the pot to cook properly.
- Remove bay leaf, add salt and pepper to taste, and serve!
Notes
If you are using raw chicken, add chicken to the pot during step 2. Bring the broth to a boil. Keep the broth boiling until the chicken is cooked all the way through.
Dumplings Recipe adapted from Taste of Home.