Chicken and Dumplings???

Chicken and Dumplings

• 2 (10.75 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup
• 1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
• 3 cups chicken broth
• 1 cup chopped celery (optional – I don’t like it, so often I don’t add it)
• 1 onion, quartered
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tsp. garlic powder
• 1 tsp. rosemary
• 1tsp. basil
• 1 bay leaf
• 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 10 carrots, sliced
• 1 (10 ounce) package frozen green peas
• Mashed Potatoes
• 1 c. bisquick
• 1/3 c. milk
• 1tbsp. parsley
• 1 Tbsp. Garlic powder

1. In large, heavy pot, combine soup, water, chicken, celery, onion, carrots, salt, seasonings, and pepper. Cover and cook over low heat about 1 1/2 hours.
2. Remove chicken from pot, shred it, and return to pot. Add peas and cook only 5 minutes longer.
3. Add dumplings. To make dumplings: Mix baking mix and milk until a soft dough forms. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto BOILING stew. Simmer covered for 10 minutes, then uncover and simmer an additional 10 minutes.
4. Serve over mashed potatoes (you can chop up potatoes -about 4-nice and tiny and add them at the begining, but we prefer the mashed potatoes!!)

oh – and sometimes, at the end, before I add the dumplings, I add a little more water if I think it’s too thick.

I just use all the dough that the recipe makes – it covers the top of the pot, you just let them sit ontop – you don’t stir them in.  The steam cooks them. And I use a teaspoon to measure out the dumplings.  I thought a tablespoon made them too gooey.  I just scoop and plop, scoop and plop!  Really – you won’t mess this up.  I serve it over mashed potatoes seasoned with some garlic and parsley, salt and pepper.

Added bonus – this is SO easy to make!  You basically dump it all in and then let it cook.  You can’t mess this up.  And you can play around with the ingredients too.  (Like add more onions or carrots, or leave out the celery, or substitute the seasonings, etc.)

And I ave a dairy free version of this somewhere as well, if anyone is interested.  I have 2 lactose free kids who always looked longingly when the rest of us were eating chicken and biscuits (That’s what we call this).  So I figured out how to make them some that they could eat…. They love it – but I prefer cow’s milk and butter to soy – so I always make 2 pots! One “Cow milk” and one “Soy”.

Enjoy blessing your husband!!!

I have made and like this one from Rachel Ray

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/chicken-and-dumplings-recipe/index.html

:o)

I don’t like dumplings either – so I just leave them off my plate.  I usually make a thing of biscuits to go with it for those (that would be me and me alone) who don’t like dumplings!  🙂

Enjoy!