Smoky Chicken Stew With Dumplings
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 15
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 2 lbs boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 4 slices bacon, cut into small pieces
- 3 carrots, cut up
- 3 celery ribs, cut up
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 5 1⁄2 cups chicken broth
- 1⁄2 teaspoon liquid smoke flavoring
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper
- 2 1⁄4 cups biscuit mix (prepared with chicken broth instead of the water according to the package directions)
directions
- Heat a heavy bottomed large, wide pot or pan over high heat.
- Cut the chicken into bite size pieces.
- Add oil to the pan and heat.
- Add chicken and caramelize for 2 minutes on each side.
- Remove chicken from pan to a shallow dish and cover loosely with foil.
- Reduce heat to medium high.
- Add bacon to the pan and brown bacon at edges, rendering fat.
- Add carrots and celery to the pan, bay leaf and thyme.
- Stir and cook vegetables 4 minutes.
- Add flour to the pan, stir and cook another minute.
- Whisk in wine and mustard and scrape up pan drippings and burned bottom.
- Add broth.
- Cover and bring liquid to a boil, 1 to 2 minutes.
- Mix biscuit mix.
- Add chicken back to the pan and settle it in so that it is covered with sauce.
- Use salt and pepper to season according to individual tastes.
- Drop large spoonfuls of biscuit mix into the pan onto the surface of the stew, leaving room for the dumplings to puff up, and cover the pan.
- Cook 8 minutes until dumplings plump.
- Serve stew with dumplings.
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