This easy chicken and dumplings recipe, like most Southern comfort food, may have evolved out of necessity but they stuck around because they are delicious!
Prep Time30 minutesmins
Cook Time1 hourhr15 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr45 minutesmins
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American
Keyword: chicken
Servings: 4
Calories: 464kcal
Ingredients
3or 4 chicken breasts
32ozchicken brothfeel free to use water with bouillon cubes added
Cook chicken breasts in approx. 4 c. of water until fork-tender, about 45 minutes.
3 or 4 chicken breasts
Place broth in a medium to large-sized pot. Stir cream of chicken soup into gently boiling broth. Add salt and pepper to taste.
32 oz chicken broth, 1 can cream of chicken soup, salt and pepper to taste
Pull biscuits apart into three layers. Dip each layer into the flour and then tear each layer into three pieces and drop into gently boiling broth mixture.
1 can Pilsbury layers biscuits, flour
Do not stir biscuits a lot or they will cook up. Only gently push dumplings down into broth as they float to the top. Cook for about ten minutes after the last dumplings are added.
Tear up the chicken and add it to the broth mixture. Turn to low until ready to serve.