Chicken Soup with Dumplings

This recipe, like most of my cooking, is from my mom. I think it's a traditional dish in Romania and one of my favorites, i wanted to share it with everybody.

 (my own recipe)

Serves 6

Ingredients:

• 3 chicken legs
• 150 gr celery root (celeriac)
• 2 celery sticks
• 250 gr carrots
• 100gr parsley root
• 1 big onion
• 3 eggs
• 1 tbsp oil
• 150 gr semolina
• fresh parsley

Step One

 In a 5 lt pot put the chicken legs to boil on low heat for 1h. During the cooking time, every 15 min remove the foam that will form on top.

Step Two
 Take the meat out of the pot and set it aside covered with clean foil. Pass the stock through a sieve, just in case there are some remaining bones or foam. Clean the onion and put it in the oven for a couple of minutes, until it gets a little dark brown, which will give to the soup a sweeter taste. Chop the carrots, parsley, celeriac, celery and the cooked onion and put them aside.

Step Three

 For the mix of the semolina dumplings, beat well the eggs with a pinch of salt and 1 tbsp oil afterwards slowly add the semolina until you get the consistency of a thick yogurt. Let the mixture to rest for 5 min.

Step Four
 Put the stock back in the 5 lt pot and warm it up to boiling point. Remove the pot from the  heat source or just lower the heat. When the stock stops boiling, dip the teaspoon in the soup (so the dumpling mix will not stick on it). Use the spoon to transfer the mix from the plate to the pot, spoon by spoon. Put the spoon slowly in the soup, to keep the dumplings' shape.

Step Five

 Remove the bones from the chicken and cut it in small pieces. Next, add the vegetables and the chicken in the soup. Let the soup simmer for 20-30 min or until the dumplings are boiled. Garnish with a lot of fresh chopped parsley.

ENJOY!!