Fast gluten free pulled rotisserie chicken drop dumpling soup

This version is built to be quick, hearty, and comforting without needing a long simmer. Since you already have rotisserie chicken, most of the flavor work is done, and the drop dumplings make it feel homemade fast.

Not having celery is completely fine here. The onion, chicken broth, herbs, and dumplings will still give you that classic chicken soup feel.

Ingredients
Soup base
1 rotisserie chicken, pulled apart
1 small onion, diced
2–3 carrots, sliced thin
3 garlic cloves, minced
6 cups chicken broth
1 tbsp butter or olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp parsley
½ tsp thyme
Optional:
pinch turmeric for color
splash of cream at end
frozen peas
Gluten free drop dumplings
1 cup gluten free flour blend
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 egg
⅓ cup milk
2 tbsp melted butter
Instructions
In a large pot, heat butter or oil.
Add onion and carrots and cook about 5 minutes until softened.
Add garlic and cook 30 seconds.
Pour in broth and seasonings.
Bring to a simmer for about 10 minutes until carrots are tender.
Add the pulled rotisserie chicken.
Make the dumplings

This dough should be thick and sticky, not pourable like pancake batter. If too wet, add a little more GF flour.

Mix together:

GF flour
baking powder
salt

Then stir in:

egg
milk
melted butter
Drop and cook
Bring soup to a gentle simmer, not a rolling boil.
Use a spoon to drop golf-ball-sized dumplings into the soup.
Cover with lid immediately.
Cook covered for 12–15 minutes.

Do not keep opening the lid or the dumplings can collapse.

Fast flavor upgrades

If you want it to taste more like old-school slow cooked chicken soup fast:

Add a tiny spoon of chicken bouillon
Add black pepper heavier than expected
Add a little butter at the end
Let rotisserie skin simmer in broth for 10 mins before removing
Good add-ins if you have them
potatoes
frozen corn
peas
spinach
parmesan
biscuit seasoning
paprika

The dumplings will naturally thicken the broth slightly as they cook, giving that creamy cozy texture without needing a roux.