How to Cook Perfect Chicken and Dumplings

Chicken and Dumplings. This chicken and dumplings soup is super easy to make thanks to Pillsbury™ biscuit dough, but you can make it even easier! Chicken and dumplings are the ultimate comfort food, aren't they? When we were kids, my mother used to make chicken and dumplings for us by simply adding Bisquick biscuit dough to chicken stew.

This easy Chicken and Dumplings Recipe is just like mom used to make! This recipe will teach you how to make chicken and dumplings that's full of old fashioned homemade goodness. Chicken and dumplings can be a little difficult to get right, but the flour and cornmeal in this recipe help prevent gloopy flour balls. You can have Chicken and Dumplings using 8 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken and Dumplings

1. Prepare 3 1/2 lb of chicken pieces.
2. Prepare 8 cup of chicken broth.
3. Prepare of dumplings.
4. Prepare 2 cup of flour.
5. You need 1 tbsp of baking powder.
6. You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. It's 1/2 cup of butter, cold.
8. You need 1/2 cup of water.

Slightly brothy, slightly creamy, with the most delectable dumplings. How do you make chicken & dumplings in a slow cooker? This recipe is broken down into two parts: cooking chicken and cooking biscuits. Prepare dumplings and set them aside for a few minutes.

Chicken and Dumplings step by step

1. In a large, wide pot, simmer chicken pieces in the broth until the chicken is tender, 30 minutes or more. Remove the chicken and set aside. When cool enough to handle, skin and bone the chicken and shred or cut into bitesize pieces..
2. In a large bowl, thoroughly mix the flour, baking powder and salt. Use a food processor, pastry blender or two knives, cut in the butter until it is the size of very small peas and distribute throughout the dry ingredients. Add water and knead 8-10 times. If too sticky, add more flour. Roll dough to 1/8 inch thickness. Bring broth to a boil and drop in dumplings. Reduce heat to simmer. Cook 10 minutes. Ladle broth and dumplings over chicken..

Shake the pot gently in a circular motion to submerge dumplings in stock. For the dumplings: While the chicken is simmering, make the dough for the dumplings. Drop tablespoons of dumpling dough into the simmering pot. Add the minced parsley if using. Chicken and dumpling stew is a quick and easy weeknight dinner that will warm you up and put a smile on everyone's face.