How to make chicken and dumpling slow cooker soup with using canned cream of chicken/frozen biscuit dough?
tina k 3:15 am on September 23rd, 2010 1 Chicken & dumplings but with a modern twist ~~ 3 or 4 chicken breasts, water to cover 1 chopped carrot 1 chopped celery 1 small onion chopped I to 11/2 Tablespoon sbutter . take a rounded Tablespoon of chicken soup base ( Krogers has it in the soup section )1 or 2 chicken cubes crushed add 1 rounded Tablespoon flour and whisk with 1 cup of cold milk till blended simmer in crock pot for 5 to 6 hours at this point you can take out chicken ,skin debone and cut in pieces if you like then put back in pot Dumplings~ 2 cups flour 1/2 t baking soda 1/2 t salt 3 Tablespoons shortening , pinch of sugar,3./4 cup buttermilk (or milk) Mix as for biscuits turn out and knead a few times no more than 4 or 5 times ,,the less it is handled the more tender the dumplings.. for drop dumplings pat to 1/4 inch thick and pinch off pieces onto stew for rolled dumplings roll dough 1/4 inch thickness cut into strips and put on top of stew cook until dough is no longer raw
