Dutch Oven Chicken and Dumplings Easy and Fast Recipe
This Dutch oven chicken and dumplings recipe is home made, easy, and will be done in less than 45 minutes!
This Dutch oven chicken and dumplings recipe will be on the menu anytime you’re in the mood for some good comfort food. And let me tell you, it will satisfy all your comfort cravings!
One of my favorite dishes my great grandmother used to make was her chicken and dumplings. Because I love cooking, one morning I got up and thought I’d make a great meal as therapy. I contacted my great aunt for my great grandmother’s recipe and thought it would be fun to add my own personal touches to a Dutch oven chicken and dumplings dish. It came out beautifully! *Chef’s Kiss*
This creamy chicken dumpling soup is perfect for a rainy night and for cool fall and winter evenings. The entire house will be filled with amazing aromas that will have you ready to gather around the table. Another great thing about this recipe, is that it’s packed with vegetables, but served in a way even picky eaters will enjoy. The whole family will sing your praises for whipping up this easy recipe of Dutch oven chicken and dumplings!
While you may think chicken and dumplings is a complicated dish, it’s actually very simple to put together, following my step-by-step instructions. This yummy dish comes together in about 30 minutes for a quick weeknight meal.
Keep scrolling for the Dutch oven chicken and dumplings ingredient list and detailed recipe instructions!
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Essential Items for Making Dutch Oven Chicken and Dumplings
There are a few essential items you’ll need to make this amazing Dutch oven chicken and dumplings recipe. This first of which is a good Dutch oven! Below, I’ve listed links to my favorite kitchen essentials to complete this dish. You’ll use these quality items again and again in your kitchen.
Le Creuset Marble Print Dutch Oven or this similar, more economy option
How to Make the Best Dutch Oven Chicken and Dumplings
Now let’s get to it! I’ve laid out the recipe ingredients and instructions in two phases. First, the ingredients for the chicken and soup base with instructions to get your chicken started. Then the ingredients for the dumpling dough and directions to bring it all together. If you want to cut back on calories or want a looser soup, you can omit the heavy whipping cream. And feel free to add in other seasonings, herbs and flavors to your liking.
INGREDIENTS (for the Creamy Chicken Dumpling Soup base)
3 large chicken breasts
1 tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp smoked paprika
50 ounces chicken broth
1/2 cup white cooking wine
1/4 cup fresh parsley +some for garnish
2 small bay leaves
Chopped onions (about 1 medium onion)
Chopped celery (about 1 cup)
1 tbsp minced garlic
16 ounces canned peas and carrots
6 tbsp butter (divided)
6 oz heavy whipping cream
DIRECTIONS TO MAKE DUTCH OVEN CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS:
HEAT Dutch oven to medium heat and melt 3 tbsp butter, ADD your onions, celery, and minced garlic and STIR until fragrant. POUR in 32 ounces of chicken stock and your white cooking wine.
SEASON the chicken breasts and ADD to broth to BOIL until cooked through.
While chicken boils prepare dough for dumplings:
INGREDIENTS
2 cups flour
3 tbsp cold butter (cubes)
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
MIX together the flour, baking powder, and butter using a fork and ADD milk intermittently to form a dough.
SPRINKLE additional flour onto your counter or work surface to work your dough, then ROLL flat to about 1/4 thick with a rolling pin. CUT into long strips, then SLICE each strip into multiple squares. Ensure you DUST each square with flour so they don’t stick together once added to the Dutch oven.
Bring it all together:
REMOVE cooked chicken and SHRED with fork.
Your chicken broth mixture will be lower, so ADD more to ensure dumplings are just covered. ADD your flour dusted dumplings to the chicken broth and BOIL for about 15 minutes. ADD 2 pinches of fresh parsley and 2 small bay leaves. MIX with slotted spoon to ensure dumplings don’t stick. They will become more dense and mixture will thicken. Once dumplings are cooked through LOWER HEAT to simmer and ADD the shredded chicken back in.
POUR in 6 oz of heavy whipping cream and SEASON with more salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder to taste. (For a more brothy chicken and dumpling meal, you can omit the heavy whipping cream).
ADD in canned peas and carrots and STIR to combine.
GARNISH with leftover parsley and serve HOT!
Check out the recipe card for these Dutch oven chicken and dumplings below!
Dutch Oven Chicken and Dumplings
Ingredients
Instructions
- HEAT Dutch oven to medium heat and melt 3 tbsp butter, ADD your onions, celery, and minced garlic and STIR until fragrant.
- POUR in 32 ounces of chicken stock and your white cooking wine.
- SEASON the chicken breasts and ADD to broth to BOIL until cooked through.
- MIX together the flour, baking powder, and butter using a fork and ADD milk intermittently to form a dough.
- SPRINKLE additional flour onto your counter or work surface to work your dough, then ROLL flat to about 1/4 thick with a rolling pin.
- CUT into long strips, then SLICE each strip into multiple squares. Ensure you DUST each square with flour so they don’t stick together once added to the Dutch oven.
- REMOVE cooked chicken and SHRED with fork.
- Your chicken broth mixture will be lower, so ADD more to ensure dumplings are just covered.
- ADD your flour dusted dumplings to the chicken broth and
- BOIL for about 15 minutes.
- ADD 2 pinches of fresh parsley and 2 small bay leaves. MIX with slotted spoon to ensure dumplings don’t stick. They will become more dense and mixture will thicken. Once dumplings are cooked through
- LOWER HEAT to simmer and
- ADD the shredded chicken back in.
- POUR in 6 oz of heavy whipping cream and SEASON with more salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder to taste. (For a more brothy chicken and dumpling meal, you can omit the heavy whipping cream).
- ADD in canned peas and carrots and STIR to combine.
- GARNISH with leftover parsley and serve HOT!
What Did You Think of this Dutch Oven Chicken and Dumplings?
I hope you and your family enjoy this recipe for creamy chicken dumpling soup. It’s one of our favorites and will be on repeat this fall and winter. Let me know what you think of this recipe in the comments and anything you like to add to your chicken and dumplings. I have a whole host of easy family dinner ideas on the blog, so be sure to check those out, too:
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