Whistle Stop Chicken and Dumplings Stew

A Carolina mountain recipe for Whistle Stop Chicken and Dumplings Stew.

AmericanChickenEasy40 minBy Northstar

Ingredients

Servings
4
  • 1 cooked chicken (the BBQ kind you get at the grocery store)
  • 1 Litre of chicken broth in Tetra Pack (you can usually find these easily now)
  • 1 Large Onion Chopped up
  • 3 Big Stalks Celery Chopped up
  • 1 1/2 to 2 Cups baby carrots (the already peeled kind in the bag)
  • 1 Cup frozen Peas
  • 1 Bay leaf
  • 1 Can Cream of (whatever you have) Soup (low fat is good to use too)
  • 1 Cup Milk (I don't recommend skim for this but you can get away with 2%)
  • 2 Cups Bisquick
  • 2/3 Milk
  • Pepper or Paprika to taste

Instructions

  1. 1

    Cut up onion and fry in a little oil with Bay Leaf, add cut up celery and baby carrots and peas. I generally just start with the onion, then start cutting the celery then add it, then just keep working.

  2. 2

    Sauté while ripping apart chicken into bits. Add chicken bits to veggies.

  3. 3

    Add Chicken broth and bring to boil, then add can of soup, and milk. Bring up to a simmer.

  4. 4

    Remove bay leaf before dropping in the dumplings.

  5. 5

    Make dumplings...just add pepper to the bisquick then milk, stir and then drop into simmering stew.

  6. 6

    Cook ten minutes uncovered, then ten minutes covered.

Tags

americancarolinas-cooking