An Easy Old Fashioned Drop Dumpling Recipe Perfect for Soups
Top off your favorite soup or stew with a batch of these easy homemade drop dumplings. With just a few simple ingredients, it stirs together quickly and makes an easy one pot dinner idea!
Why you’ll love this drop dumpling recipe.
Today’s drop dumpling recipe comes straight out of Grandma’s recipe box. Many of you are like me and love the good old fashioned recipes and this is one of them!
Drop dumplings taste similar to biscuits, but melt in your mouth a little more. They are light, fluffy, and tender.
Some people have told me that they use canned biscuits to put on the top of soups & stews – which is a great idea. But, if you don’t happen to have them on hand, these just take a few minutes to mix up with common ingredients, and taste amazing!
I particularly like these on top of potato soup.
I grew up with Potato Soup as a hot, comfort food on cold Winter nights. And dumplings on the top makes it extra special.
While your soup or stew starts to simmer, mix together this easy dumpling recipe.
Ingredients for Drop Dumplings:
- 1 cup flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
How to make Drop Dumplings for Soup:
- Stir together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl.
- Beat the egg & milk together in a separate bowl.
- Add the liquid to dry ingredients and mix just until moistened. (Don’t over mix.)
- Once soup is heated through, drop dumplings onto the top of the hot soup using a generous heaping tablespoon. Don’t worry if they look small. They will puff up while they steam.
5. Use your finger or a spatula to drop the dumpling dough around the edge of the soup pot and then in the middle.
- Make sure the soup is turned down to a low simmer, put on the lid and cook the dumplings for about 20 minutes.
You’ll know they are done when they are puffed up and bounce back when you gently poke the top with your finger.
Serve soup in bowls with dumplings on the top.
Ahh…comfort food at its best!!
More Soup Recipes you might enjoy:
- Olive Garden Copycat Chicken Gnocchi Soup
- Creamy Tortellini Soup with Sausage & Spinach
- Crock Pot Taco Soup
- Spicy Buffalo Chicken Chili Inspired by Rachel Ray
- Turkey Pumpkin Chili
Easy Homemade Drop Dumplings Recipe
Top off your favorite soup or stew with a batch of these easy homemade drop dumplings. With just a few simple ingredients, it stirs together quickly and makes an easy one pot dinner idea!
Ingredients
- 1 cup flour
- 1½ teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- 1 egg
- ½ cup milk
Instructions
- Mix together flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
- Beat egg & milk together.
- Add liquid to dry ingredients and mix just until moistened.
- Drop dumplings onto the top of your hot, simmering soup one large tablespoon at a time. Don't worry if they look small. They will puff up!
- Make sure the soup is turned down to a low simmer and put the lid on.
- Check back in about 20 minutes and they should be puffed up and cooked through.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 6 Serving Size: 1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Calories: 448Total Fat: 12gSaturated Fat: 4gUnsaturated Fat: 7gCholesterol: 55mgSodium: 646mgCarbohydrates: 69gFiber: 5gSugar: 5gProtein: 17g
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I a such a sucker for dumplings. Thanks for posting. Hello from Real Food Recipe Roundup.
I grew up on flat dumplings and only had drop dumplings as an adult. I really love them! This dumpling recipe is delicious!
Are you familiar with what my grandmother called kennips (sp?)? When you mentioned flat dumpling I thought of that. I don’t have the recipe but maybe your flat dumplings are similar?
This is my favorite dumpling recipe because it’s SO easy! I look forward to making these when the weather starts to cool off.
I always forget that dumplings are so easy to make! This dumpling recipe is getting bookmarked and added to our rotation of meals so I don’t forget to make them! =)
I have always been so intimidated to try making my own dumplings! Do you think this recipe would still work if I substitute gluten free all-purpose flour to try and make gluten free dumplings?
Absolutely! You can always substitute such successfully. You will not taste a difference. Just healthier for your body’s needs. /ss
Here in the south we usually only see the flat kind of dumpling. This drop dumpling recipe looks so light and fluffy! YUM!
My grandma used to make a dumpling recipe but it wasn’t passed down. I’m so glad I found this one. It reminds me of being in her kitchen so much and they are delicious!
My husband’s grandmother used to make dumplings like this, but we could never find a recipe that tasted as delicious as hers did… until we found yours! It’s perfect. Thank you for sharing!
Yes!!! I love dumplings, I’ve tried some variations but so far, your dumpling recipe is by far the best. I’ve got it printed and on my refrigerator (yes, I could make them as often as that, lol).
I grew up on drop dumplings. Never knew flat dumplings existed until I got older. I still think of dumplings as drop dumplings. My grandmother made Corn soup. Tasted a lot like corn chowder, but no other vegetables, only corn. After the corn, (boiled in water), milk, salt, and pepper were boiling, she would drop in the dumplings! Delicious! So easy to make. It has been handed down thru many generations. Try these dumplings, in stead of potatoes, in a little thinner corn chowder, and you can see what it taste like. It’s great with saltine crackers spread with a little! Definitely some good soul!
I made this recipe last night and it was a big hit.
I can’t wait to try these . The recipe I have calls for shortening but no egg.