Chicken soup with dumplings is a classic meal that has its origins in Germany. Growing up my mother would make large pots of chicken soup with dumplings all winter long using the long process of slow cooking a whole chicken to make a nourishing broth and then removing the meat for the soup and adding spoonfuls of the dumpling dough to the simmering broth. I still remember standing at the stove watching the dough puff up as it cooked in the broth!