easy slow cooker chicken and dumplings recipe
This is the best slow cooker chicken and dumplings recipe! It's so easy to make and the result is a delicious, hearty meal that the whole family will love.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 lbs. Cubed chicken breasts
- 10.5 oz. Cream of chicken soup
- 10.5 oz. Cream of celery soup
- 1 cup water
- 14.5 oz. 14.5 oz.
- 2 carrots cut about 2 cups after they have been sliced.
- 2-3 ribs of celery sliced (about 2 cups after they have been sliced).
- 1 diced yellow onion
- 1/2 tsp. Thyme
- 1/2 tsp. 1/2 tsp.
- Optional: 1 cup frozen peas
- 16.3 oz. Pillsbury Grand Biscuits 8 biscuit-sized can Note: I only use 7 Pillsbury Grand Biscuits
- Sprinkle more pepper and thyme on top of the biscuits
Instructions
- In a slow cooker, add chicken, celery, carrots, onions, garlic, thyme and black pepper.
- Mix the cream of chicken soup or cream of celery soup with water. Stir.
- Cook on HIGH for 4 hours, or LOW 8 hours.
- If you wish, add peas at the end. Stir.
- This recipe calls for 7 biscuits. Divide the biscuits in quarters. Place the quartered biscuits in an even layer over the soup.
- Add a pinch of salt and pepper to the dumplings. Cover with a lid.
- Set your slow cooker on HIGH
- Cook on HIGH for 45 minutes. When the dumplings become dull and glisteny, you will know they're done.
- NOTE: If the slow cooker is heating up after cooking, you'll need to cook the dumplings in the slow cooker for 1.5 hours to get it back to room temperature.
