20-Minute Chicken and Dumplings is the best chicken recipe when it comes to delicious comfort food, which can be made with fluffy dumplings in a rich gravy sauce, and tender chicken.
What Are Chicken and Dumplings?
Chicken and dumplings are a traditional chicken dinner made with biscuit-like dumplings made with either browned chicken breasts or shredded chicken in a heavy cream sauce or condensed soup as the creamy base. Normally, a large onion, peas, carrots, or other easy vegetables are added to the soup base.
These are not dumplings like you might find in other cuisines that are dough filled with meats and vegetables and then steamed, fried, or baked, like our baked crab rangoons.
What You’ll Love About This Recipe:
This family dinner recipe is a comforting meal made with simple ingredients in the Dutch oven or large saucepan. This one pot meal uses either leftover chicken or a shredded chicken from a store-bought rotisserie chicken.
Plus, don’t forget the delicious pillowy dumplings that get added to the savory broth to complete this dumpling recipe. This easy chicken and dumplings recipe will make for the ultimate comfort food to serve on busy weeknights.
Key Ingredients
Chicken: In this recipe, you will want to use either leftover chicken you have from another dish or get a store-bought rotisserie chicken and shred the whole chicken.
Biscuits: Instead of making homemade dumplings, to keep this delicious meal simple, you will just need a package of refrigerated biscuit dough.
Cream of soup: Using cream of chicken soup with the chicken broth will get you the best thick broth that makes for the best consistency for this cozy night’s soup recipe.
See the full list of remaining ingredients below!
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How To Make Chicken and Dumplings
- Heat olive oil in a large saucepot over medium-high heat.
- Add onions, celery, and carrots, cooking over medium-high heat.
- Add garlic and cook until fragrant.
- Pour the chicken stock into the saucepot. Bring it to a simmer and add seasonings and cooked chicken, then stir in cream of chicken soup.
- Roll out your biscuit dough and cut into bite-sized pieces.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer the chicken soup, partially covered, until the biscuits are cooked through.
Recipe Notes
- To cut the biscuits easily, use a pizza cutter.
- Feel free to use homemade dumplings instead of premade dough.
- Add a bay leaf to the creamy chicken soup for even more flavor, but be sure to remove it before eating.
- Swap the cream of chicken soup for cream of celery soup for another alternative.
What to Serve With This Recipe:
- Spinach Cucumber Strawberry Salad is a delicious light side dish to serve with this comfort food entréee.
- Sliced Baked Potatoes Recipe has the best delicious cheesy flavor!
- Use your air fryer to make this Loaded Baked Potato Skins Recipe.
- Layered Chocolate Chip Cookie Dessert is the best way to end dinner.
Other Cooking Methods
For another way to make homemade chicken and dumplings, try our delicious and easy Instant Pot Chicken and Dumplings recipe a try!
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Chicken and Dumplings Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 large onion, finely chopped
- 3 stalks celery, diced
- 2 large carrots, chopped
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 5 ½ cups chicken stock
- 2 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- ½ teaspoon dried rosemary
- 3 cups cooked and shredded chicken meat or rotisserie chicken
- 2 ½ cups cream of chicken soup
- 2 10 oz. refrigerated biscuit dough
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
Prepare the base:
- Make the flavor base; heat olive oil in a large stock pot over medium-high heat.
- Add onions, celery, and carrots. Cook, stirring for 5 minutes.
- Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds or until fragrant.
Add the liquid:
- Add the stock; pour the chicken stock into the saucepot. Bring it to a simmer, then add dried parsley, thyme, rosemary, and cooked chicken.
- Simmer for 5 minutes, then stir in cream of chicken soup.
Add the biscuits:
- Chop the dough; roll out your biscuit dough and cut into ½ inch pieces. The dough will expand as it cooks. Add the dough gently to the simmering soup.
- Reduce the heat to medium-low, and simmer the soup, partially covered, for 10-15 minutes or until the biscuits are cooked through.
Serve:
- Taste the soup and adjust the seasoning before serving.
Notes
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Did You Make This Recipe?We’d love to hear your thoughts! Leave a review or a question in the comment section below the post.
Tastes like childhood! My mom used to make a similar soup but it was WAY more complicated. This tastes even better and is way easier to make. LOVE!
Are the biscuits doughy?
Is 2 1/2 cups cream of chicken soup the same as 2 cans?
Is there any way to make this ahead??
This was delicious and easy to prepare!
I’m wondering if adding 2 1/2 cups of cream of chicken soup is the same as adding two cans?
It sure is!
Yes it should equal 2 cans
I haven’t found them doughy at all. They were moist but light and fluffy
We absolutely love this version of the classic comfort meal. It’s on our monthly dinner rotation