Easiest Way to Make Ultimate Chicken stew & dumplings

Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chicken stew & dumplings. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Chicken stew & dumplings is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Chicken stew & dumplings is something which I have loved my whole life.

This Chicken Stew is a one pot dinner that's easy enough for midweek and a firm favourite with all! Chicken Stew - with crispy skin! Anyone else here not a fan of slimy chicken skin?? Chicken stews are just about the most comforting comfort foods out there.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have chicken stew & dumplings using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken stew & dumplings:

1. Get 2 tbsp olive oil
2. Prepare 8 skinless / boneless chicken thighs
3. Prepare 100 grams bacon or ham diced
4. Make ready 1 onion, chopped
5. Make ready 2 leeks thinly sliced
6. Take 2 tbsp plain flour
7. Make ready 100 ml white wine or cider
8. Make ready 500 ml chicken stock
9. Prepare 100 grams peas, frozen or fresh
10. Take 100 grams sundried tomatoes, chopped
11. Make ready 3 tbsp green pesto
12. Make ready 1 bay leaf
13. Take Dumplings:
14. Make ready 175 grams self raising flour
15. Get 75 grams butter
16. Get 50 grams grated parmesan cheese

Warm up with a hearty bowl of chicken stew packed with tender chunks of chicken and savory veggies. This Chicken Stew is the perfect meal on a cold day. Hearty, thick, and delicious, you'll love sitting down to a bowl of this stew. Chicken Stew is just what you need to cozy up to after a long day!

Instructions to make Chicken stew & dumplings:

1. Heat oil in ovenproof pan or dish, fry chicken until golden,turning as neccesary, remove from pan
2. Lower heat, Place bacon/ ham in pan and fry for a couple of minutes, add onion and leeks, cook until soft, without browning.
3. Add plain flour and stir, cook for two minutes,without browning, stir constantly
4. Slowly add the wine, or cider still stirring, stir in stock, season. Allow to thicken.
5. Replace chicken, add bayleaf, reduce heat, put on lid simmer for 45 minutes, stir occasionally.
6. Meanwhile heat oven to 200C.
7. Add pesto, peas and tomatoes.
8. Make dumplings, rub butter & self raising flour together until it looks like breadcrumbs, add cheese and lightly stir in 80 ml cold water to form a soft dough. You can add ground black pepper or pinch of grated nutmeg at breadcrumb stage. No need for salt as cheese is salty enough!
9. Divide in to 8 pieces and roll into balls, dip tops into pine nuts then place on top of stew. Sprinkle any leftover pine nuts on top.
10. Place in oven for 25-30 minutes until dumplings are nicely golden and cooked.
11. Serve with vegetable of choice (creamed potato goes well) Enjoy

Hearty, thick, and delicious, you'll love sitting down to a bowl of this stew. Chicken Stew is just what you need to cozy up to after a long day! It calls for simple ingredients that Chicken Stew. It's the best dinner in the fall and winter and it's just what. Chorizo is chicken stew's perfect partner - just ask Simon Rimmer and Lisa Faulkner.

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