Southern Style Slow Cooker Chicken And Dumplings Recipes

Steps:

• Place the chicken, butter, soup, and onion in a slow cooker, and fill with enough water to cover.
• Cover, and cook for 5 to 6 hours on High. About 30 minutes before serving, place the torn biscuit dough in the slow cooker. Cook until the dough is no longer raw in the center.

Steps:

• Clean and chop carrots, celery and onion. Add to slow cooker.
• Add cream of chicken soup and chicken broth, stir to combine. Add chicken pieces, parsley, salt and pepper.
• Cover and cook on HIGH for 5 hours.
• Add torn biscuit dough pieces and continue to cook on HIGH for 1 hour.
• Stir before serving. Remove any chicken bones.

Steps:

• Spray the inside of your slow cooker with cooking spray and set it on the low setting. Cut the chicken breasts once through the middle, then into large chunks and arrange in the bottom of your slow cooker. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the soups, broth, melted margarine/butter, onion and seasonings. Pour this over the chicken chunks. Cook the chicken on low for 5 hours. After 5 hours, remove the lid, stir and increase the temperature to the high setting. Cut the thawed biscuits into quarters then drop them into the slow cooker and stir into the broth. Place the cover back onto the slow cooker and cook for another 1-1 1/2 hours. Yield: 6 servings OPTIONAL VEGGIES: In a stove top pan saute 1/2 cup each of chopped celery and onion with one cup of carrots in 2 Tbsp margarine or butter until cooked and golden. Season with salt and black pepper to your taste. Remove the lid and test the dumplings to be certain they're completely cooked. Stir the sauteed vegetables into the chicken and dumplings and serve immediately.

Steps:

• Place chicken in a heavy 5 quart stockpot with water to cover.
• Add the onion, carrot, celery, bay, peppercorns, salt, thyme and rosemary.
• Bring to a boil, reduce and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
• Skim scum if needed.
• Remove chicken and set aside to cool.
• Remove meat and return bones to pot.
• Simmer for 1 hour more.
• Strain well and remove any fat you can.
• Dumplings------------------.
• Combine flour, soda, salt.
• Cut in shortening until flour resembles coarse crumbs.
• Add the stock, buttermilk and thyme.
• Stir to make a stiff dough-and it will be stiff.
• Turn out onto a floured board and knead gently 6 times.
• Wrap in plastic and chill 1 hour.
• Bring strained broth to a boil, reduce to a simmer.
• Roll out the chilled dough to 1/8 inch thick, and cut into 4x1 inch pieces.
• Drop them into simmering stock and stir gently.
• Cook for 10 minutes, add the chicken and cook for 5 min more.
• Season with salt and lots of pepper.

Steps:

• In a 3-4 quart crock pot, mix potato and carrots.
• In medium bowl, combine chicken broth, flour and spices and blend well until smooth.
• Pour over vegetables in crock pot.
• Add chicken.
• Cover crock pot.
• Cook on LOW for 6-8 hours until chicken is thoroughly cooked and no longer pink in center.
• Add peas and cover again.
• Cook on HIGH for 20 minutes until peas are hot.
• In small bowl, combine baking mix and milk and mix just until combined.
• Do not over mix.
• Drop by tablespoons onto hot chicken mixture in crock pot.
• Cover and cook on HIGH for 20-25 minutes until dumplings are cooked through, are fluffy, and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.