An Easy Old Fashioned Drop Dumpling Recipe Perfect for Soups
This easy drop dumplings recipe comes straight from Grandma’s recipe box — light, fluffy dumplings that cook right on top of your favorite soup or stew. Ready in minutes with 6 simple ingredients!
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:
This easy dumpling recipe comes together with just a few pantry staples. (Exact measurements are in the printable recipe card below.)
- Flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- Sugar
- Egg
- Milk
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
How to make Drop Dumplings for Soup:
- While your soup or stew simmers away, stir the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar together in a large mixing bowl. In a separate bowl, whisk the egg and milk together, then pour that right into your dry ingredients, stirring just until moistened — a few lumps are perfectly fine, and overmixing is the one thing to avoid.
- Once your soup is hot and simmering, use your finger or a spoon to drop generous, heaping tablespoons of dough right on top — a few around the edges, a few in the middle. Don’t worry if the dough looks a little strange floating there at first; it puffs up beautifully as it steams! Turn the heat down to low, cover the pot, and let the dumplings cook for about 20 minutes, until they’re puffed up and spring back when you gently poke the top.
- Serve your soup steaming hot with dumplings piled on top — pure comfort food, and one of my favorite ways to dress up a bowl of potato soup on a cold night.
5. Use your finger or a spatula to drop the dumpling dough around the edge of the soup pot and then in the middle.
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!!
Watch Me Make this Drop Dumpling Recipe
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- Turkey Pumpkin Chili
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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!
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).
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!
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!
Here in the south we usually only see the flat kind of dumpling. This drop dumpling recipe looks so light and fluffy! YUM!
How South?? I live in Tennessee and have only had fluffy dumplings my whole life.