Slow Cooker Chicken N' Dumplings

Chicken N' Dumplings are a southern household comfort food staple. This is a really basic dish that is commonly said to have started during the great depression when the need for a cheap meal was ever present. Chicken and Dumplings is basically boiled chicken meat, broth from the boiling chicken, multiple dumplings, and salt & pepper. Some people make theirs like a thin soup and others a thicker stew. Same as some like to add butter for a little extra richness. I am a fond believer that butter makes it better!



I grew up in South Carolina and have very fond memories of watching my mom boil a pieced chicken, making dumplings, and pulling the cooked chicken off the bone. While I have been known to spend a couple hours in the kitchen to do things the old fashioned way just for the fun of it, there is nothing wrong with taking short cuts! The other day we had a few checkups for the kids and I knew I was going to be frazzled and beat by the time we got home. I got up first thing and before I even fixed my hair dinner was already cooking in the crock pot.

Ingredients

FOR THE Soup:

• 2 frozen boneless, skinless chicken breasts
• 26 oz cream of chicken soup
• 2 cans chicken broth
• 1 yellow onion, diced
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 can flaky biscuits
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Utensils you will need:

• slow cooker
• cutting board 
• cutting knife
• spoon to stir
• fork to shred
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Directions

FOR THE SOUP:

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1. Dice your onion and add to crock pot                  
2. Add broth and soup
3. Stir well
4. Add chicken breasts                                                
5. Season with pepper only at this point                
6. Cook on low for 8 hours                                        
7. Once timer goes off, stir and remove chicken breasts 
8. Using 2 forks or your fingers, pull chicken apart into more bite size pieces. The chicken is going to be falling apart tender. 
9. Add chicken back to the pot.                                
10. Open can of biscuits
11.  Use your cutting knife, cut each biscuit into 4 quarters.
12. Roll each section of biscuit in the palm of your hand then throw in the crock pot 
13. Once all the biscuits are rolled and in the slow cooker, give it a quick stir, turn heat up to high and set timer for 30 minutes.                                      
14. Depending on your crock pot size and how crowded the dumplings are, the dumplings may or may not be thoroughly cooked at the end of 30 minutes. They should be fluffy and not stick to each other. If you aren't sure then it wont hurt to cook them for an additional 30 minutes. 
15. Once cooked, stir, and serve up!