Cindy's Old Fashioned Chicken & Dumplings
A classic, old fashioned comfort food recipe that will warm you up from the inside out.
Ingredients
- 1 large Rotisserie chicken
- 3-4 stalks celery, and leaves sliced
- ½ onion, cut into chunks
- 5-6 medium carrots, peeled and sliced
- 2 medium parsnips, peeled and sliced
- 1 bay leaf
- water
- 1 tsp chicken bouillon
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 14.5 oz chicken broth
- ½ cup corn starch
For the dumplings:
- 2 cups Bisquick mix
- ⅔ cup milk
- 3 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
Instructions
- Remove skin and chicken meat from the rotisserie chicken. Reserve meat for later.
- Place chicken skin and bones in a large stockpot. Add the chopped onion, celery leaves, carrot peels, parsnip peels and bay leaf to the stockpot. Add enough water to cover all the ingredients.
- Bring to a boil and simmer on low, covered for 90 minutes.
- Remove chicken bones, skin and all the vegetable peels from the broth and discard them.
- Add sliced celery, carrots and parsnips to the strained chicken stock. Bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer until carrots and parsnips are tender, about 15-20 minutes.
- Combine corn starch with half cup chicken broth to make a lump free slurry. Once the vegetables are tender, add the cornstarch slurry to the simmering broth, stirring constantly. Pour remaining chicken broth into the pot.
- Add the reserved shredded rotisserie chicken and chicken bouillon to the pot and stir to combine. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Cover and simmer on low until gravy thickens, about 10-15 minutes.
- In a small bowl stir together Bisquick, chopped parsley and milk. Dough will be quite sticky.
- Drop large spoonfuls of the dough into the simmering gravy, to make about 8-9 dumplings.
- Simmer dumplings in the stew over low heat for 10 minutes, uncovered.
- Cover pot and simmer dumplings and stew for an additional 10 minutes over low heat; dumplings will puff up as they cook.
- To serve, scoop out a dumpling and cover the it with a generous amount of the shredded chicken, vegetables and gravy. Dig in!