Slow Cooked Chicken and Herb Dumplings
A homemade classic, chicken and dumplings always warms the heart. Return to your simple slow cooker recipes and fill your nostalgia for mom's cooking with these Slow Cooked Chicken and Herb Dumplings. They'll be everything you remembered.
Cooking Time5 hr
Cooking MethodSlow Cooker
Ingredients
- 2 whole cloves
- 10 small white onions, halved
- 3 1/2 pounds broiler-fryer chicken, cut up
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 clove garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon dried marjoram, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme, crushed
- 1 bay leaf
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup packaged biscuit mix
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
- 6 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Insert cloves in one onion. Place all onions in a slow cooker. Add chicken, salt, pepper, garlic, marjoram, thyme, bay leaf, broth, and wine. Cover and cook on Low 4 to 5 hours or until chicken is tender.
- Remove bay leaf and onion with cloves; discard. Turn control to High.
- In a small bowl, dissolve cornstarch in water; stir into chicken mixture in cooker. Cover and cook while making dumplings; stir once.
- In a medium bowl, combine biscuit mix with parsley and milk, mixing with a fork until moistened. Drop by teaspoons on chicken mixture around edges of pot. Cover and cook on High 30 minutes or until dumplings are cooked in centers when tested with a fork.
