Chicken Baked Potatoes As Well As Chicken As Well As Dumplings

This weekend was cold, rainy, gloomy too leaf-less; without falls brilliant xanthous leaves everything looks thus dreary. We've had several difficult freezes too the snowfall describe on the mount behind our trouble solid is creeping real near; it won't survive long. To celebrate the completion of our annual "winterizing", nosotros decided to savour a lazy weekend. Saturday, I set chicken breasts too veggies inward the crockpot too at dinner time, I merely thickened the broth too served it on dissever baked potatoes.

4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
3 cups chopped veggies
½ loving cup chopped onion
1 loving cup chopped celery
1 loving cup chopped carrot
4 cups adept character chicken broth (not bullion)
pinch of dried thyme
pinch of poultry seasoning
pinch of dried basil
½ teaspoon dark pepper
1 teaspoon salt

Saute onions inward a lilliputian butter until they mellow, thus set everything inward the crockpot too gain on depression for most vi to 8 hours (check for chicken tenderness at vi hours). You desire the chicken to survive overnice too "fall apart" tender. Thicken broth too serve over large baked Yukon gilded potatoes that are cutting inward half.

DAY TWO

On Sunday, I used the crockpot leftovers for around other lazy twenty-four threescore minutes menses meal:

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS

My woman parent made wonderful chicken too dumplings, thus our Sundays dinner was a trip downward retentiveness lane for me...Hubby, non thus much. He courageously gave the dumplings a gustation thus gave me i of those squinty "I don't intend so" glances too politely moved the dumplings over to the side of the bowl too ate everything else. Oh well, I enjoyed them thoroughly.

In a saucepan, gain 3 diced potatoes inward seasoned (salt & pepper) chicken broth. Add them to the crockpot leftovers. For chicken too dumplings y'all desire a liquid that is the consistency of gravy. If your leftovers seems to thick, add together merely a lilliputian chip of the chicken broth y'all boiled the potatoes in. If it seems likewise thin, thicken it amongst a lilliputian chip of corn starch slurry. When your gravy is the correct consistency, convey it to a potent simmer.

Dumplings
2 cups all role flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon chicken bullion granules
2 tablespoons melted butter
3/4 loving cup milk
pinch of poultry seasoning

Mix everything JUST UNTIL MOISTENED too allow it sit down for most five minutes. Drop heaping teaspoons of dumpling mixture onto the SURFACE of the simmering gravy. Put a TIGHT FITTING lid on the pan too gain for xv minutes (do non peek). At the halt of xv minutes, examination the dumplings for doneness amongst a toothpick. If they are non cooked thoroughly, set lid dorsum on too gain around other five minutes. Spoon gravy over dumplings earlier serving.