Today we served Chicken Arrabbiata with homemade fresh herb dumplings served with vegetables.
Savoury dumplings made from balls of dough are part of traditional British and Irish cuisine . Traditionally dumplings are made from twice the weight of self raising flour to suet , bound together by cold water to form a dough and seasoned with salt and pepper but can also be made using self-raising flour and butter. Balls of this dough are dropped into a bubbling pot of stew or soup , or into a casserole . They sit, partly submerged in the stew, and expand as they are half-boiled half-steamed for ten minutes or so. The cooked dumplings may be airy on the inside and moist on the outside. The dough may be flavoured with herbs , or it may have cheese pressed into its centre.
