What Is Chicken and Dumplings?
Chicken and dumplings is a classic comfort meal with a rich history in the Southern United States—but this satisfying soup-like dish is a well-loved favorite around much of the world. Homemade chicken and dumplings usually consists of a thick, savory broth, with hearty pieces of chicken, fresh vegetable chunks and soft, fluffy dumplings. The tender, pillowy dumplings are often made from scratch using homemade biscuit dough—but this recipe for Easy Chicken and Dumplings uses store-bought biscuit dough to make things oh-so-simple!
The Best Vegetables to Use in Chicken and Dumplings
Vegetables are crucial ingredients in chicken and dumplings, but not all vegetables will hold up well inside the soupy dish. We use chopped carrots and celery in this recipe, but plenty of other green vegetables would make delicious additions to your Easy Chicken and Dumplings. Try adding in chopped leeks, broccoli, cut green beans or sugar snap peas—all of these picks tend to cook well in the simmering liquid, adding a fresh and tasty touch to your savory meal. Yum!
How to Store Chicken and Dumpling Soup
Chicken and dumplings makes delicious leftovers, but we would not recommend freezing the entire dish after cooking. If you do want to freeze your meal for leftovers, we’d recommend removing the dumplings from the soup and freezing them separately from the liquid. When you’re ready to eat, thaw both the soup and the dumplings in the refrigerator completely before heating up the soup and then adding the dumplings. For even better results, try cooking a completely new batch of the biscuit dumplings to eat with your leftover soup. Either way, make sure to heat thoroughly!
More About This Recipe
- This chicken and dumplings soup is super easy to make thanks to Pillsbury™ biscuit dough, but you can make it even easier! The recipe calls for cooked chicken; instead of cooking the chicken yourself and taking the time to shred it, pick up some shredded rotisserie chicken from the grocery store so all the prep work is already done for you. Have even more leftover rotisserie chicken? We have plenty more chicken soup recipes you can make after this one. And make your soups even better by reading some of our best tips and tricks for toppings and sides to serve with them.
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Easy Chicken and Dumplings
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 40 min
- Ingredients 7
- Servings 4
Ingredients
- 1 carton (32 oz) Progresso™ Reduced Sodium Chicken Broth
- 3 cups shredded cooked chicken (about 1 1/2 lb)
- 1 can (10 3/4 oz) condensed cream of chicken soup
- 1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1 can (16.3 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Grands!™ Southern Homestyle Buttermilk Biscuits (8 Count)
- 2 medium carrots, chopped (1 cup)
- 3 celery ribs, chopped
Instructions
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Step1In 4- to 5-quart Dutch oven, heat broth, chicken, soup and poultry seasoning to boiling over medium-high heat; reduce heat to low. Cover; simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Increase heat to medium-high; return to a low boil.
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Step2On lightly floured surface, roll or pat each biscuit to 1/8-inch thickness; cut into 1/2-inch-wide strips.
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Step3Drop strips, one at a time, into boiling chicken mixture. Add carrots and celery. Reduce heat to low. Cover; simmer 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent dumplings from sticking.
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Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 640
- Calories from Fat
- 240
- Total Fat
- 26g
- 41%
- Saturated Fat
- 13g
- 63%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 100mg
- 33%
- Sodium
- 2090mg
- 87%
- Potassium
- 460mg
- 13%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 62g
- 21%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 10%
- Sugars
- 10g
- Protein
- 38g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 110%
- 110%
- Vitamin C
- 2%
- 2%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 20%
- 20%
Exchanges:
3 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1/2 Vegetable; 4 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 4 1/2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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