For a super quick, really tasty and super easy.
Ingredients:
Dumplings, 1 package frozen
Butter, 2 Tablespoons
Pepper jelly, 2 Tablespoons
Salad Mix, ready made and cleaned
Avocado, 1/2 cubed
Goat cheese, 1 Tablespoon
Tomato, 1/2 cubed
Dressing, bottled oil and vinegar
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS:
Boil for 2 minutes. I used a shallow pan so the water would come to a boil more quickly and threw in two handfuls.
While the dumplings were heating up, I “made” a salad using mixed salad greens…already washed so all I needed to do was take out a handful to put on each plate, add one avocado, goat cheese and a tomato and drizzle with bottled dressing.
This is the super quick from freezer to stomach dinner in less than 15 minutes! I love dumplings, it’s a comfort food for me that I could eat a lot.
For nights…like tonight…when I really just don’t have a clue what to fix, plus it’s cold and going out is not any where near the top ten on my list of things I want to do…my freezer becomes my best friend.
If you have room in your freezer, it’s always a great idea to keep some of these dumplings on hand, because they make putting a wonderful dinner together super fast and easy. Over the years I have learned to freeze everything left over…instead of throwing out what I could use later in a recipe next month, or three months from now. Especially things like homemade sauces that are a bit time consuming when they are first made, I just freeze what is left. Homemade mixed with a bottle from the store, is a great combination that gives everything a much deeper flavor.
Now I will admit to you, that I am positive that I could master making dumplings from scratch, if given the time to try a million times…and…at a later time I intend to do just that. But until then when I’m in a hurry I found these golden nuggets in the freezer section at the store and they are soooo darn good! This is the perfect choice for dinner tonight, I’m tired and my feet hurt. So let’s do this…and do it really quick and enjoy the results.
Dinner will be made in minutes with applause from the family, and all I have to do is use one pan, boil them, heat them in a butter sauce and I’m done, except for throwing together a salad with pre washed lettuce.
So here it is…fully cooked, a sneaky way to get vegetables into those who don’t usually like them, and you are going to love the taste.
I found these at Costco, the big membership wholesale store, but have seen them at many other local grocery stores as well.
They are filled with tender white chicken breast meat, leeks, green cabbage, onions, garlic and cracked black pepper. Use what you need for now and keep what you don’t use in the freezer for later.
I found a bottle of Roasted Pineapple and Habanero sauce…that I use in a multitude of recipes now…also at Costco, and this is the only thing I added that wasn’t already provided in the dumplings. It’s the sweet hot combination that I love, so any pepper jelly will work perfect too.
After two minutes the dumplings came out of the boiling water, I drained them, put them back in the same pan and added two table spoons of the above sauce and two tablespoon butter (don’t let the word Habanero scare you, it is not hot at all). And that was all the sauce they needed. If you buy dumplings that don’t come with a sauce packet and you don’t have a ready made sauce you love, just use a little olive oil and butter. It will make them brown and scrumptious.
I only cooked the dumplings for one additional minute after they were boiled…that is it…dinner was ready.
Seriously amazing meal with cooking time starting from the moment I walked into the kitchen, until I was setting the plates on the table…10 minutes.
Really you can’t beat that, and no one will believe you put this awesome plate together so easily.
Sorry that this picture is a little blurry…I was trying to take a picture and shove the food in my mouth at the same time. 🙂
This picture was supposed to show the little bit leftover that didn’t get eaten…but from the time I posted this on my blog and went back into the kitchen, my husband totally finished every bite in the pan.
When there isn’t a drop of food left…I know I have a winner.
