Chicken and dumplings taste like a cross between chicken noodle soup and a thick stew. The broth over time in the chicken and dumplings thickens to make a creamy and very flavorful base. Dough that is cooked in the broth and helps to thicken the broth and also forms into dumplings. The dumplings are pillow like and taste like a cross between a noodle and a potato.