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While this dumplings recipe will take about three hours to cook, everything comes together in a single Dutch oven, meaning this one-pot meal will require little clean-up afterwards. This is the ultimate hearty and delicious family-friendly meal that is easy to reheat and makes great leftovers. Serve with a side salad or just garnish with chopped parsley for an added touch.

Ham & Dumplings

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Course: BeastsCuisine: American, Southern

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

hours

Total time

hours

minutes

Good down home comfort food makes everything better. Even miserable cold weather.

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Ingredients

2 lbs ham (with bone in)
water to cover
2 med sweet potatoes (cubed)
2 cups gluten free flour
2 eggs
1/2 cups heavy cream or buttermilk
1 can French cut green beans (drained)
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Place ham in large pot and cover with water.
Bring to a full roiling boil, and then reduce to a simmer, uncovered, for 2 hours or until mixture is reduced by half.
Cut ham into cubes and set aside.
Place potatoes in broth to cook.
Meanwhile in a large mixing bowl, mix flour, eggs, and heavy cream to form soft dough. (adding cream as necessary)
Roll dough to 1/8″ to 1/4″ thickness, and cut dough into 1″ by 1 1/2″ rectangles
Drop dough into broth one piece at a time.
Cook (covered) until dough is done.
— agitating the dumplings with an aggressive simmer or boil will make them fall apart
Add ham and green beans, cook til heated through.
Salt and pepper to taste

Notes

It is so easy to cut the dumplings with a pizza cutter and much quicker!
If you’d like a more hearty broth for the base:
– 2 ribs celery with leaves, rinsed and cut into large chunks
– 2 large carrots, unpeeled, rinsed and cut into large chunks
– 4 sprigs fresh parsley
– 2 bay leaves
– 1/2 teaspoon whole peppercorns
Make sure to strain these out when you remove the ham!

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If you happen to not like ‘slipperies’ or rolled dumplings, you can always make up a biscuit dough, and cook on top instead. I personally will eat any and all dumplings that are safe for me!

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