I've never made chicken and dumplings before, so I was a little nervous about the dumpling part. There wasn't a lot of liquid, so I added a can of cream of mushroom and a can of milk to counter the extreme thickness. I also added some bay leaves for a little extra flavor during simmer time. As for the dumplings, they turned out great. I made sure my mixture was wet and sticky as per another review. My only problem was that a few of the smaller drops got a little gooey. But the bigger full spoonfuls became nice and fluffy. Definitely going to cook this again. My 1 year old gobbled it right up.

Reviewed On: May 30, 2012

This is a great base for egg drop soup like restaurants have. To make it a little more, here's what I did differently: 1. Added 1Tbs of soy sauce and a few dashes of ginger (about 1/4-ish tsp.) 2. I also wanted some of the sesame oil flavor in most egg drop soups, but I can never seem to get the ratio right. In order to do this, I actually cooked some chicken cut into matchstick strips and cooked that in a bit of sesame oil, then added that to the soup. I'd say a teaspoon of oil roughly. Also MAKE SURE you add your cornstarch BEFORE eggs, otherwise, the eggs get all puffy instead of stringy like restaurant soup. I'll definitely be making this again. Perfect for our snowy winter evenings :) Even the little one loves it.

Reviewed On: Jan. 1, 2012

This tasted excellent. Even my 8 month old loved slurping up the soup :) I did make a few changes. I used 3 whole eggs. I stirred in the cornstarch before adding the eggs so they'd string out like the restaurant soup. I also added a tablespoon of soy sauce. I cooked up some thin matchsticks of chicken in sesame oil and added that to the broth as well to give it that sesame flavor like restaurants have, but not so overwhelming like sesame oil can be. I'll definitely make this many more times in bigger batches since this batch went quick :) I didn't add any salt either, since most chicken broths have plenty of sodium (plus the soy)

Reviewed On: Jan. 1, 2012