Easy Slow Cooker Chicken & Dumplings Recipe
The easiest chicken and dumplings recipe you'll ever make from scratch! One pot and 10 minutes prep time for this creamy, delicious comfort food favorite.
Equipment
- Slow Cooker/Crock-pot
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter divided
- 1 cup onions chopped
- 1 cup celery chopped
- 2 cups carrots chopped into small rounds
- 2 Tbsp flour plus ½ cup (added later in dumplings)
- 3 ½ cups chicken broth
- ¾ tsp salt divided
- 2 chicken breasts boneless skinless
- ½ cup yellow cornmeal
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ½ cup buttermilk * diy recipe below
- 1 Tbsp dried parsley
- 1 tsp dried tarragon optional
Instructions
- Set 4-quart slow cooker on high setting. Add 2 tbsp. of butter and allow to melt.
- Chop onions, celery and carrots and add to slow cooker.
- Stir in 2 tbsp of flour.
- Add chicken broth and ½ tsp salt. Stir well.
- Cut chicken breasts into 4 large pieces and submerge into slow cooker.
- Cook on high setting for 3 hours or until chicken is cooked. Once chicken is cooked, separate into smaller chunks by using two forks.
Last hour before serving:
- Whisk ½ cup flour, cornmeal, baking powder, soda and ¼ tsp salt in a medium size mixing bowl.
- Add cold butter (2 Tbsp) in small chunks and cut in using a fork. Mix with hands until mixture resembles small crumbs. Stir in buttermilk, parsley, and tarragon. Mix well.
- Drop by tablespoons into crockpot broth. Do not stir! You want to allow dumplings to maintain a biscuit-like shape. Put the lid back on the pot and don’t open it for the next hour. Cook for 1 hour.
- After an hour, dumplings should be cooked through. Use a large serving spoon to separate dumplings. (Dumplings will crumble a bit; that’s okay! It will add to the creaminess of the mixture.)
- Fill individual bowls with soup and top with a few dumplings.