We’ve had snow a couple times already this year. RIGHT?! I grew up in the land of the hurricanes so this is completely foreign to me. I am, however, used to the hype that surrounds weather. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve slept in a closet on more than one occasion because it was the only window-less place in the house and I’ve had more than my share of power outages because of storms. But for the most part, those hurricanes tend to be more hype than anything.
So you would think that when the weatherman declared a blizzard on it’s way I would’ve brushed it off. But I prepared. (And by prepared, I mean I bought a couple gallons of milk and a couple bags of flour. I was prepared for baking.) I even planned this chicken & dumpling meal even though I was absolutely positive that I hated chicken and dumplings. I thought it would be the perfect meal to eat with snow swirling around outside.
We got about 1/2″ of snow. And the dog ate most of that in the time it took me to boil water for coffee. Some blizzard, eh?
I went forward with my chicken and dumplings plan though because this recipe is super easy and I had already decided I wasn’t cooking. It shocked the heck out of me! So easy, just a few ingredients, and my kids LOVED it.
The only problem with this recipe is that it can get a little salty so I definitely recommend using a low-sodium chicken broth and then you can salt it yourself if it needs it. Odds are, you won’t even need it though.
adapted from LouLou Sucre
Ingredients
Instructions
- In the bowl of the slow cooker place the chicken, soup, broth, onion, and all spices/herbs. Cook on high for 4-5 hours.
- Remove chicken and shred. Place back in the crock pot.
- Cut each biscuit into 5 pieces and place in the crock pot. Cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour longer (cook longer for less doughy dumplings.
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Chicken and Dumplings is one of our all time faves! I might have to make it now for dinner after seeing this!
so what’s the deal with chicken and dumplings… how come there are recipes that have things like fat noodles and other ones have biscuits on the top??
I have never had dumplings but have wanted to try making chicken and dumplings for quite sometime now… I need to bookmark this one!
No storm on the way here but, still going to find a reason to make this. It looks so homey and comforting.
This sounds so good! I don’t have a slow cooker, but this is a dish I’ve always meant to try. My grandma always made it for me growing up, and I want to try and replicate it (most likely an impossible task :) )
what do you serve this with? do you serve it over something? what else goes with this? or do you treat this like a soup?
Treat it like a soup. :) I made bread to go with it but that seems kind of redundant since it already has biscuits in it! It was good though!
This sounds perfectly comforting for icky winter weather. I hate when there’s tons of hype about a weather system and it doesn’t pan out!
This looks like a very warming recipe. My kids will eat anything with bisquits, so this will be a great recipe for our house.
I love love love chicken and dumplings. Sadly I have not had it in years…I need to change that!
We do get blizzards, real blizzards with a lot of snow. It makes for a long winter, but one of the best parts are recipes like these! Warm comfort food!
This sounds like a great recipe to make when the weather turns nasty. I love chicken and dumplings, but I haven’t eaten it in so long. Looks like I need to give this recipe a try! :)
I have this cooking in the crock pot right now! Good thing, too; after a few unseasonably warm days in the high 50s, the temperature here in Milwaukee dropped to 35 today!
Am I doing something wrong? I have this in my crock right now, been in there about 2 hrs 45 min. It smells delish, however its not quite what I was expecting….i’t a little too soupy. I’m hoping the the biscuits with thinken it up a bit. Not sure if I will be making this again, I guess it’s a wait and see kind of thing.
Yeah, the biscuits should thicken it up quite a bit. Are you letting it go the full 5 hours?