A whole chicken, stewed down in the same manner as homemade chicken and dumplings, but is then simmered with thick, homestyle noodles. Comfort food, indeed!
Old-Fashioned Homestyle Chicken and Noodles
Old fashioned chicken and noodles, made with home style noodles of your own or from the freezer sections of your store, is a total comfort meal, and when the temperatures drop and frigid weather is on the way nothing is as warming as a big bowl of these creamy noodles.Like Chicken Noodle Soup on steroids. Like Chicken Noodle Soup met Chicken and Dumplings, fell in love and had little chicken noodle babies.
You know I poke fun with The Cajun (aka my husband) a bit - I can't help it, what can I say - he just gives me so much material to work with... but he really is a good man, who would give you the shirt off his back and will be there for you in a pinch, and of course I'm just having fun with him for blog material. {Yes honey, laughing at you, not with you.}
But ... don't you know that when I decided at the last minute yesterday that I really wanted this dish, and only this dish, despite the fact that I did not have a chicken to make it, when I
This dish has been around since the beginning of time, so it really calls out for either homemade noodles instead of dry noodles - or those very convenient little bags of thick, homestyle frozen egg noodles, like Reames brand or Grandma's {if you happen to live on that side of the country}. These are nice, thick noodles that are about as close as you can get to homemade noodles without making them yourself.
Thank goodness for convenience products for those of us who are pasta challenged, yes? Of course you can use regular old egg noodles from the pasta aisle too, but you'll probably have to make adjustments in the liquid, or let the finished dish simmer awhile longer, since the dry noodles don't absorb quite as much as the homemade or frozen noodles. Truth? I tend to stew it down that way anyway.
One word of caution though. A bowl or two of this {and it's near about impossible to stop at one to be honest}, and you'll be so fat and happy {that's southern for real full} that you probably won't want to do anything but snuggle with your honey for the rest of the night. Perfect for these frigid nights right around the corner now.
I let this dish simmer down until it get super thick and almost all of the liquid is absorbed, and of course, leftovers get nothing but even thicker. Which reminds me, this recipe makes a serious boatload of chicken and noodles, and it doesn't freeze, so unless you don't mind having leftovers for several days, if you're not feeding a good sized family, you'll probably want to cut it in half.
Feeling a little under the weather and not up to making this version? Check out my Easy Chicken and Noodles. It's fast and easy! Looking for old fashioned chicken noodle casserole? We've got that too - click right here!
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