Chicken and Biscuits

Chicken and Biscuits – only 5 ingredients! Chicken and gravy topped with refrigerated biscuits and baked until bubbly and golden. This is a family favorite!

We’re going old school today!

This meal is one of the first I ever learned to cook. My Aunt Micki made a cookbook for me after my first kid was born and this was in it. It was a favorite of her boys and has become a favorite of mine too.

I haven’t made it in years but last weekend I was doing my Sunday ritual of watching all the trash reality shows on my DVR and saw an ad for the gravy mix this recipe calls for.

My husband and all the kids were at the grocery store at the time so as soon as they walked through the door I jumped on them: “Do you remember that chicken and biscuits I used to make?! DO YOU?! I should make it this week, right? RIGHT?!”

And they agreed because they had no other option.

Chicken and Biscuits Recipe!

It’s like chicken and dumplings but since the biscuits aren’t completely covered by the gravy, the tops actually bake up like biscuits. So it’s basically dumplings and biscuits in the same meal.

My idea of heaven.

I always have the urge to add veggies to it to turn it into a pot pie-type dish but my husband won’t allow. I think it’s especially delicious with peas so if your family is into the veggies, definitely add them.

More easy chicken dinner recipes

This Panera Copycat Chicken and Wild Rice Soup is one of our favorites and it’s so easy!

Or how about this Baked Monterey Chicken, this Easy Chicken Noodle Soup, or this Slow Cooker Orange Chicken?

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Chicken and Biscuits

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken
• 1 packet Pioneer biscuit gravy mix
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 1 can 10 or 12-pack refrigerated biscuits

Instructions

1. Let chicken simmer in a 5 qt pot for about 2 hours. When it's cooked, take it out of the water and let it cool. Remove all broth but about 4 cups. (Freeze the rest!)
2. Mix the biscuit gravy mix and the flour with about 1/4 cup of water and then add that mixture to the broth. Add the cream of chicken soup and bring to a boil. If it's not thick enough to be a gravy, add another small mixture of flour and cold water to thicken it up. When it's thick enough, pull the chicken off the bones and add it in small pieces to the gravy. (At this point, I usually divide the mixture into 2 and freeze half of it for another meal but you can definitely make the full batch if you want.)
3. Put the mixture into a casserole dish.
4. Cut each biscuit into 6 pieces each and place the pieces on top of the chicken and gravy mixture. Bake according to biscuit directions.

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