Better Than Chicken and Dumplings!

Convenient comfort food! I have made this dish several times, making small alterations for convenience and to accommodate what I had on hand. It has turned out delicious EVERY time. In place of the chicken breasts, I often use canned chicken, with perhaps not equal, but satisfying results. Rather than boiling the first six ingredients as the recipe states (if using regular chicken breasts), I simply saute the celery, onion and carrot and mix it with the soup, 2 cups of water and some chicken soup base/bouillon in place of actual chicken broth. In place of the self-rising flour, I use 1 c flour, 1/2 tsp salt and 1 1/2 tsp baking powder. I do follow the same basic assembly instructions as the recipe states, but first putting the melted butter in the pan, then the chicken, then the flour and milk mixture, and lastly the soup/vegetable mixture. Thank you for sharing this fabulous recipe, Koechin! I think I'll go make it again right now! Yum!

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5 star for taste, but 3 star for the way the recipe is written. I agree with a previous reviewer that this was too confusing. This is how I "rewrote" it...I fried all of the veggies (not in two separate ways) in the butter, then I mixed it with the seasoned salt, cream of chicken soup, and two cups of chicken broth after it was cooked. I fried the chicken separately and sprayed the pan with Pam. I cooked for 35 minutes. The taste was delicious, though the dumplings were a little weird as it was more of a layer of dumpling then regular ones. I would probably make this again, but I would use my directions above vs. the ones written!

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Great easy tasty recipe! I added italian seasonings to the flour mixture before add milk to it. Also I double the about of "dumplings". There is never any leftovers at our house!

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One word.......DELICIOUS! I used one cup frozen peas and carrots which i sauteed first..I put the peas & carrots on top of the chicken and then added the flour and milk and then the soup mixture.....I did increase the flour and milk to 1 1/2 cups each because I like alot of dumplings/dough......first time I have ever made a casserole and there was nothing left....one more thing, it taste more like a chicken pot pie than chicken & dumplings, but soooooo good..Thank you for posting!!!!!!!!!

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This is a very good and is a great quick fix if you are hungry for chicken and dumplings. N.B. - to those reviewers who said it was soupy and did not form dumplings - you have to use self-rising flour in this recipe, no other flour will work - ALSO - self-rising flour goes stale after a while and will not "rise" if it is stale. If you have had the self-rising flour for more than 6 months (or don't know how long you've had it), it is probably stale, so throw it out and buy new self-rising flour before you try to make this recipe :)

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Pretty good! I skipped the butter and spray some olive oil on the dish instead. The "dumplings" stuck to the pan as a result, but were delicious nice and browned. I added some ground pepper. Next time I may add some more spices to give it more kick.

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I love this, my kids love this and so does hubby! Although he would prefer steak ;) If you don't have self rising flour try this: to make 1 cup of self-rising flour, take 1 cup all-purpose flour and add 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt.

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Very rich and delicious. I added a chicken bouillion cube, salt and pepper, and a dash of garlic powder, used Bisquick for the flour, and sprinked cheddar cheese on top before serving. Yum. Next time I mad make a little more batter because I like more crust.

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4/2012 had 1/2 rotisserie chicken and fixed a large (for 2) casserole. perhaps my flour was a tad old, but the "biscuits" didn't quite rise -- but provided a left-over meal for a few days -- tasty and easy

Lovely Comfort-Food !! I had 2 BIG rotisserie chicken breasts (left over) and made the rest according to recipe directions. Did not have self-rising flour, so made my own with 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt per cup of flour(according to Google), and it worked just fine. Sprayed the casserole with butter-spray instead of melted butter. Made an enjoyable Monday night supper. Thanks, Chef Koechin.

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WOW great Recipe! I wasn't sure about this dish based on some of the reviews and how this dish is put together. I agree it was very similar to Chicken pot pie which the family loves. I had left over chicken so I didn't simmer the chicken and used Chicken stock I had in the freezer. This had alot of flavor with little work. Thanks for a great recipe!

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Great dinner for cold weather. I used leftover chicken so skipped the boil steps. Thanks for a tasty dinner!

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I made the cream soup, and followed the rest of the recipe. This is deelicious!

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Let me start off by saying it tasted good. It tasted like a chicken pot pie without the crust. I followed your recipe exactly but I didn't get any dumplings which I was longing for. This makes a lot for one person so I think I'll be eating it for sometime. I'll make some of it into a small pot pie and the rest I'll try over rice. 4 stars for the taste, can't judge for how it turned out since I am the only one who didn't get dumplings. I boo-booed some how.

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Great recipe! Quick and easy and delicious - what more could you want. I always make a recipe as posted and then tweek it - no tweeking here! Just be sure to watch it to be sure that it doesn't dry out during the baking process.

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Easy recipe!

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I was surprised how good this was! :) I made some 1 change, I used c of mushroom instead of c of chicken since I didn't have c of c on hand. I made this the night before and was worried that it would cause the dumplings not to form, but it didn't. It was really good and the perfect comfort food.

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We loved the smell and taste of this, but our flour batter didn't rise over the gravy veggie mix. Still, I froze the leftovers to have when hubby travels. I don't have a clue what happened to it though.

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Loved the technique, unfortunately, we didn't enjoy the dish at all. The chicken overcooked at the bottom and everything seemed overly salty.

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This was really good. It was easy to make and truned out yummy!

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