It tastes great to eat this chicken stew with dumplings. For a while now, I’ve been wanting to prepare chicken and dumplings. Is there a season when a comfort food is more appropriate than winter?
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 45 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 5 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- 1 (3 pound) rotisserie chicken
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 onion, diced
- 2 ribs celery, sliced thin
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 (14.5 ounce) cans chicken broth
- ¾ pound new potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch dice
- 2 cups frozen mixed vegetables
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons cold butter, cubed
- ¾ cup milk, or more as needed
- 2 tablespoons dried dill
Instructions
- Prepare stew: Debone rotisserie chicken; cut meat into chunks or shred. Set aside.
- Melt butter in a large Dutch oven over medium heat; cook and stir onion and celery in hot butter until soft, about 10 minutes. Sprinkle in flour and whisk continuously to make a thick roux, about 2 minutes. Slowly pour in broth, whisking to remove any lumps. Add potatoes, frozen vegetables, salt, black pepper, basil, and thyme. Cover and cook over medium heat until vegetables are tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Stir in chicken meat and continue to simmer.
- Meanwhile, make dumplings: Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl; cut in butter with 2 knives or a pastry blender until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in milk and dill until dough comes together.
- Drop rounded tablespoonfuls of dough into simmering stew. Cook, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Cover and cook until dumplings are tender, 8 to 10 minutes more.
- I use a food processor to make the dumpling dough. Be careful not to overmix, or the dumplings will be tough. If necessary, finish the dough in a mixing bowl and adjust milk to a very stiff consistency.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 464 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 38 g |
| Cholesterol | 96 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Protein | 30 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Sodium | 1161 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 21 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
We loved this recipe! The dumplings came out perfectly (made sure not to overmix). Followed the recipe except I added carrots, skipped the frozen veggies, and used spices that are our preference. My husband requested that this recipe be added to our regular rotation of meals.
Dumplings were primo
delicious! perfect way to use leftover over roasted chicken!
The recipe was super easy. The flavor was great. My dumplings were not the best, but I think that was my fault.
This is delicious! I have roasted my own chicken each time, used frozen as suggested, and fresh cut cup carrots and green beans and just sautéed with the onions and garlic. My dumplings always take a little longer to get done, and usually have to almost double the chicken broth to have enough liquid to continue the cooking of the dumplings. It still comes out like a stew consistency, and add a pinch more thyme and basil to account for the extra broth I add. Family and friends love this dish!
I found that this dish needed a bit more fluid. I added 1 cup of heavy whipping cream!!!!!!Amazing
I just made the dill dumplings, cooked in a steamer for 10-12 min. The where light, fluffy and delicious
It was packed with flavor and was a family hit except for the dumplings. I would recommend using more butter for the roux. I used 2 cups of sliced carrots and 3 cartons of chicken broth and I large onion and 3 celery stalks. Added minced garlic when frying the onion and celery. Used 4 chicken breasts ( feeding 4 people). Also added in some sage along with alI the spices listed. Found dumplings did float but were mushy. Not sure what the secret is to making dumplings as I followed the recipe. I would recommend making this.
The recipe was really easy to follow. I substituted Bisquick Heartsmart drop biscuits for the homemade biscuits with butter and followed the timing on the recipe. We really enjoyed the stew and I will definitely make it again.
Such a great meal- I left out the veggie part and add red diced potatoes instead!! So so yummy
Use half the salt it calls for. you don’t need it. Stew was to watery I put a flower and water mix to thicken it up a bit. Also 3 tb’s of butter in the dumplings is not enuff for the bumpling mix I put 4 tb’s in the flower. Could have put another tbs in but left it like that
Followed the directions, but added a bay leaf and a can of cream of celery soup.
This was sooo delicious, and perfect for the snowy day! I did add a couple more spices (rubbed sage and minced garlic to gravy), and cut back on the dill weed just a bit.
Being it has dumplings you don’t need potatoes. I added them but better without. It needs more broth as it was too thick to really do the dumplings right. Also added more spices for a little more kick. Dumplings were good. I used a heaping TBS of batter so they weren’t so huge. I did use frozen mixed veg. Does reheat well.
So delicious!
Really like this warm and hearty stew. Made a couple simple changes for what I had in the house. Made the entire thing in my instant pot. Used my pressure cooker to cook about 1lb of chicken thighs with a splash of chicken broth and some Trader Joe’s 21 seasoning salute, removed from pot and shredded as recommended. Removed the residual liquid and added the butter, then in same pot, sautéed the celery, onion, and added fresh carrot at this stage. When soft added 2 cloves of garlic and sautéed briefly. Then pretty much followed the rest of the recipe as stated. For the mixed frozen veggies I used peas and corn. Instead of dill in the biscuit mix I added fresh chopped parsley. You may need to add more liquid than stated in the recipe depending on how thick you like things. I used. 32oz carton instead of 24. The biscuits seem to absorb quite a lot of fluid. Great dish!!
Delicious, delicious, delicious! This was a winner with Hubby and I. It was also the first time I’ve ever made dumplings; they turned out great! Thanks for the recipe!
Finally! A recipe for real dumplings. Thought you would never get here. Very extremely good.
I made it as written from chicken scraps. it was delicious. Did it in the Instant pot. loved it!
It was amazing and did not last long in my household!
This was delicious! Definitely can feed a lot of people!