Slow Cooker Chicken and Dumplings

Submitted by juliendbq

"I received this from a daily e-column (Everyday Cheapskate) I subscribe to. She'd never given me a bum steer before, so when I tried this I wasn't surprised that we liked it; the truth is we LOVED it! Having made this recipe once, next time I think I will try adding frozen mixed vegetables before adding the soup mix. I used 94% fat-free cream of chicken soup and due to time constraints made pasta to ladle the soup over when I served this. I'll try wild or long-grain rice next time. This is a real keeper and truly delicious!"

 

• Ready In: 6hrs 20mins
• Ingredients: 6
• Serves: 6-8

ingredients

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 (10 3/4 ounce) cans condensed cream of chicken soup, undiluted
• 1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth
• 1 onion, finely diced
• 1 (10 ounce) package refrigerated biscuit dough (flatten and cut into 4 strips)

directions

1. Place the chicken, butter, soup, broth and onion in slow cooker. Cover, and cook for 5 to 6 hours on high.
2. . One hour before serving, open biscuits. Roll each one to be about 1/4-inch thick and cut into 1/2-inch strips.
3. Add to the slow cooker, laying on top of chicken and liquid. Overlapping strips of dough will occur.
4. Continue cooking until the dough is no longer raw in the center, about 1 hour.
5. Note: Dough will not cook into biscuits as you might think. It will become like traditional dumplings.

Reviews

[Chef Smiley7]

Awesome recipe!!! It is so easy and my family loves it. I use whatever cream of ... soups that I have; one is usually some type of cream of chicken. I add two 12-ounce bags of mixed frozen vegetables as well as the onion. I use canned chicken and put it in just before I put the biscuits in. Using canned chicken, I only cook it 3 1/2 to 4 hours total on high. Easy comfort food.

 

[Wilfong]

Whole family liked it!! I added some veggies instead of onions. Added this one to my cookbook. Cheers

 

[Diana87]

Delicious! My boyfriend is french and is kinda picky with food. Especially slow cooker recipes. I made this for him and he loveedddddd it. I added some vegetables that were leftover from Thanksgiving along with cooked Turkey instead of the chicken. The dumplings were the traditional kind which were PERFECT. He kept wanting me to pick out the dumplings for him. Delicious. Definitely making again!

 

[Funda]

Really great comfort food. Family ate nearly the whole thing in one sitting. Added a bag of baby carrots for a one pot meal. Will be making this again without a doubt.

 

[Hugh Chef-ner]

Fantastic recipe, very flexible. We made it by the recipe the first time and have since added some variety - substituted one can of cream of mushroom instead of cream of chicken and added a package of frozen veggies one hour before adding the dumplings, etc.