Chicken Dumpling

A Hearthfire oven dish of chicken, garlic and leek in dough that restores 15 Health and keeps healing for two minutes.

The Chicken Dumpling is a savoury baked dish added by Hearthfire (Hearthfire). Chicken, garlic and leek are wrapped in dough and baked, giving a light food item at only 0.1 weight. It has a base value of 3 gold.

Effects

  • Restores 15 points of Health immediately.
  • Restores 1 point of Health per second for 120 seconds.

Over its full duration that adds up to 135 Health from a single dumpling, which is generous for food. The instant part helps right away, while the slow trickle tops you up as you keep walking, so it is a good snack to eat after a fight.

How to make it

Chicken Dumplings are baked in an oven, which you get by building one in a Hearthfire home. One bake needs:

The result is one Chicken Dumpling.

Where to find it

The oven recipe is the reliable source. If you have chicken breasts to spare, the dumpling is a stronger use of them than a plain Grilled Chicken Breast.

Good to know

The oven has other dumplings too, such as the Apple Dumpling and the Lavender Dumpling.

Where to find it

  • Baked in a Hearthfire home oven.

Crafting materials

1x Salt Pile
1x Sack of Flour
1x Chicken Breast
1x Garlic
1x Leek

Lore notes

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Sources checked: Skyrim/DLC game files (food records, cooking and oven recipes); Elder Scrolls Fandom food and cooking articles