The votes are in and Tennessee Home & Farm readers picked Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings as the winner of the Tastes of Tennessee March Madness Food Bracket. This delicious, traditional chicken and dumplings recipe won the Down-Home Dumpling Cook-Off back in 2007 and is just as rich and flavorful today.
You can find this one and many more dumplings recipes in our Down-Home Dumplings Cookbook.
Bea’s Grand Champion Chicken and Dumplings; Photo credit: Brian McCord
If all this madness has made you hungry, here are all of the tournament recipes for your Southern dinner table. Enjoy!
Beef Classic Burger, Broccoli Cheese Cornbread, Chocolate Fried Pies, Garden-Stuffed Squash, Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits, Fried Green TomatoesBea’s Chicken and Dumplings, Red Velvet Cupcakes
Beef Classic Burger, Old-Fashioned Light Cornbread, Homemade Butter Pecan Ice Cream, Garden-Stuffed Squash, Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits, Fried Green Tomatoes, Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings, and Red Velvet Cupcakes.
Oven baked mini-reuben, old fashioned cornlight bread, home made butter pecan ice cream, garden stuffed squash, country ham and cheese biscuits, fried green tomatoes, bea’s chicken and dumplings, key lime cake
Beef classic burger,Broccoli-cheese cornbread,Chocolate fried pies,Garden-stuffed squash,Country ham and cheese biscuits,Fried green tomatoes,Opal’s beef stew,Key lime cake
Beef Classic Burger
Broccoli Cheese Cornbread
Homemade Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Turnip Greens with Spicy Peppers
Sweet Potato Casserole Biscuits
Fried Green Tomatoes
Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings
Key Lime Cake
Oven baked mini reuben
Broccoli cheese cornbread
Homemade butter pecan ice cream
Garden stuffed squash
Sweet potato casserole biscuits
Fried green tomatoes
Bea’s chicken and dumplings
Red velvet cupcakes
Beef Classic Burger
Old Fashioned Light Cornbread
Chocolate Fried Pies
Garden Stuffed Squash
Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits
Fried Green Tomatoes
Bea’s Chicken & dumplings
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Beef Classic Burger
Old Fasioned Cornbread
Homemade Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Garden-Stuffed Squash
Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits
Fried Green Tomatoes
Chicken and Dumplins
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Mini Rueben, Corn Light Bread, Butter Pecan Ice Cream, Turnip Greens, Country Ham & Cheese Biscuits, Fried Green Tomatoes, Chicken & Dumplings, Key Lime Cake.
Beef Classic Burger, Old-Fashioned Light Cornbread, Chocolate Fried Pies, Garden-Stuffed Squash, Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits, Fried Green Tomatoes, Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings and key lime cake
Beef Classic Burger
Old-Fashioned Light Cornbread
Chocolate fried pies
Garden Stuffed Squash
Country ham and Cheese Biscuits
Fried Green Tomatoes
Bea’s chicken and dumplings
Red velvet Cupcakes
Beef Classic Burger
Old-Fashioned Light Cornbread
Chocolate Fried Pies
Garden-Stuffed Squash
Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits
Bacon-Wrapped Green Bean Bundles
Opal’s Beef Stew
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Beef Classic Burger
Old-Fashioned Light Cornbread
Chocolate Fried Pies
Turnip Greens w/Spicy Peppers
Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits
Fried Green tomatoes
Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Beef classic burger,old fashioned light cornbread,chocolate fried pie,turnip greens with spicy peppers,country ham and cheese biscuits,fried green tomatoes,bea’s chicken and dumplings,red velvet cupcakes
Beef Classic Burger
Garden-Stuffed Squash
Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits
Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings
My Top 4:
Cornbread
Garden Stuffed Squash
Fried Green Tomatoes
Red Velvet Cake
My top 4: Old-Fashioned Light Cornbread, Chocolate Fried Pies, Fried Green Tomatoes, Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings
Garden Stuffed Squash
Old Fashioned Light Cornbread
Country Ham and Cheese Biscuits
Fried Green Tomatoes
Dumplins and Garden-Stuffed Squash
This makes no sense to me. There’s only 4 recipes. How can I pick 4? I guest I’ll vote 4times for Bea’s Chicken n Dumplings ‘. ‘Nuf said.
Old-Fashioned Light Cornbread
Bea’s Chicken and Dumplings
Love all of them, can’t pick just one.