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Today, I'm going to show you an easy version of chicken and dumplings in the crock pot
We don't have to heat up a big pot on our stove top and have it sit all day simmering
Let the crock pot do it and keep your kitchen nice and cool
You ready? Let's go ahead and get started. To make the chicken part of our chicken and dumplings, you're going to need two pounds of boneless, skinless chicken breast
three to four cups of chicken broth. I'm using some poultry seasoning, some salt, some pepper, and then I have a cream of chicken soup, and a cream of celery soup
Now you can change these up if you want to do two cream of chicken soups
You can do that or two cream of celery soups. You can do that also
I'm using a six-court crock pot and we're going to add two cans of our cream of soups
Now this recipe is great because it's in the crock pot. We're not having to sear any meat, brown any meat
So just put it all in there and let it do its thing
and then the dumplings will come later. I'm going to show you how that's going to happen
Now these are 10.5 ounce cans, and you're going to need two of them
I like the celery flavor, so we'll be adding that. But we've got to have that chicken flavor in there
Really prominent chicken flavor. Now, this is the base for my chicken and dumplings
I never go away from this flavor here. Now, I change up the dumplings every so often
I'm going to take my chicken broth. Now, what I like to do to get all of that stuff out of the cans
pour the chicken broth into our can. Probably going to be doing the whole box
Just take a spoon, just kind of stir it up. up, get all of that flavor out of there
We love, love, love chicken and dumplings. I'm bringing this one back to you and did it years ago in a What's for Dinner
And it is lost up in there with all those videos I've done. I've done like over 900 videos
What we going to do now is season it Quarter teaspoon of salt Half a teaspoon of black pepper
Then we're going to go in with a full teaspoon of poultry seasoning
Now, poultry seasoning has thyme, sage, marjoram, rosemary, nutmeg, and black pepper
the ingredients. Yeah, this will really give it some flavor. Take a whisk and just blend this
all together. Now if you like other flavors in there like garlic, onion powder, you can
add that. Whisk it really good and get it all combined. Now we're going to be using
boneless skinless chicken breast for this recipe. Now these are pretty big and they
seem to be about a pound each because there was four pounds to the
package and there was four chicken breast. So I'm going to cut these down just a little bit
because they are very plump. So I'm just going to probably cut it into threes. You can
use chicken tenders if you want. Now we're going to place the chicken and submerge it into
the liquid. Get it nice and coated. Now what I'm going to do is add that rest of that chicken broth
I filled the cans with it, but I want four cups in here
We're going to need this liquid when we create the dumplings. So make sure you have four cups in there
Okay, I'm going to give that a stir. Now we're going to cook it
Now we're going to cook it. Okay, we're going to place the lid on
All right, so we're going to cook the chicken part of our chicken and dumplings for about three, three and a half hours on high
Or you can go about five hours on low. You want to get to the point where that chicken is nice and tender and you can shred it very easily
And then at that point, we're going to make the dumplings. And then it's going to take about another hour
All right, I'll be back. We're about one hour out from the chicken being really nice and tender
So I'm going to go ahead and start preparing the biscuits that are going to make the dumplings in the crock pot
So we're going to be using biscuit dough. You get it out of your refrigerator
It just a can It take about an hour for these to cook in the crock pot So I going to do is sprinkle a little bit of flour on my work surface
Smooth it out a little bit. Now I'm going to place my biscuit dough on top
Now I'm going to cut very thin strips. strips. Very, very thin
Like that. Now you can make your own biscuit dough if you want to do that, and then you can put them into
your crock pot. We like them like this and very thin because they make really good dumplings
Now I've made chicken and dumplings before in a big soup pot and it was a copycat version
of Cracker Barrel. And I made homemade dumplings. So I'll link it down below if you want to check out that recipe
I'm going to do three more of the biscuits, and that's what we'll do for this recipe
So there'll be five total biscuits. Now we have three more, and what you can do is just plop those into the oven
and bake them off. And we can dust these with a little bit of flour
which is totally fine because it'll aid as a thickener. once we put them back into the crock pot
All right, there we go. All right, I've got all of these
I've got these here. Just going to dust them a little bit on the top
See it don't stick. All right, what we're going to do now is pull the chicken out of the crock pot
and I'm going to chop it up or you can shred it up. However, you want to eat your chicken with the dumpling
getting tender, that's for sure. So I'm going to place it on a cutting board
Let's make sure we got it all out. All right, we're going to start chopping it up
We've got all the chicken chopped up, but we're going to do is place it back into the crock pot
All right, now we're going to do. to add the pieces of biscuit on top of the sauce
Make sure your crock pot's still on. Mine's going to be on a high setting
I just going to push these down So they coated with the sauce And then we going to put another layer of biscuit on top of that Push those down
Now the flour on the biscuit pieces will help thicken up the sauce as it cooks
We're going to put a lid on it, and it should take about one hour to finish tenderizing that chicken and cooking the biscuits
It's still a nice and tender, fluffy, and puffy. Okay, I've taken the lid off
Now it sat for a few minutes. So I'm going to break these up
Oh, look at that. Sure made the house smell delicious. Oh, look how thick that is
Who's ready for some chicken. and dumplings. I'm going to bowl this up and give it a try
Okay, if you can see the dumplings, how they puffed up, and that chicken
Oh, it's so tender, it just falls apart. It's those dumplings I'm after
There's my bite right there. A really comforting dish to have. All right, my bowl holder
Comfort. All right, there's my bite. Mmm. This right here
whatever you want to call it. That. That. gold right there. That's delicious. It's creamy. It's got a lot of flavor in it. Probably
because of that poultry seasoning we added. Had a little nutmeg in there which gave it a little
warmth to it. That is delicious. The chicken is very tender, full of flavor. And those
dumplings, they're very soft, kind of like little pillows of goodness in your chicken and dumplings
Okay, give me a thumbs up on this one. Who's making it
It was very easy to put together using a can of biscuits and a few cans. Yeah
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