Chicken Baked Potatoes As Well As Chicken As Well As Dumplings

This weekend was cold, rainy, gloomy in addition to leaf-less; without falls vivid yellowish leaves everything looks hence dreary. We've had several difficult freezes in addition to the snowfall describe on the mount behind our trouble solid is creeping really near; it won't survive long. To celebrate the completion of our annual "winterizing", nosotros decided to taste a lazy weekend. Saturday, I set chicken breasts in addition to veggies inward the crockpot in addition to at dinner time, I simply thickened the broth in addition to served it on carve upwards 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 skilful 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 picayune butter until they mellow, hence set everything inward the crockpot in addition to railroad train on depression for nigh six to 8 hours (check for chicken tenderness at six hours). You desire the chicken to survive overnice in addition to "fall apart" tender. Thicken broth in addition to serve over large baked Yukon aureate potatoes that are cutting inward half.

DAY TWO

On Sunday, I used the crockpot leftovers for roughly other lazy hateful solar daytime meal:

CHICKEN AND DUMPLINGS
 

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


In a saucepan, railroad train iii diced potatoes inward seasoned (salt & pepper) chicken broth. Add them to the crockpot leftovers. For chicken in addition to dumplings yous desire a liquid that is the consistency of gravy. If your leftovers seems to thick, add together simply a picayune fighting of the chicken broth yous boiled the potatoes in. If it seems also thin, thicken it alongside a picayune fighting of corn starch slurry. When your gravy is the correct consistency, select it to a rigid simmer.

Dumplings
2 cups all locomote 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 in addition to allow it sit down for nigh five minutes. Drop heaping teaspoons of dumpling mixture onto the SURFACE of the simmering gravy. Put a TIGHT FITTING lid on the pan in addition to railroad train for fifteen minutes (do non peek). At the destination of fifteen minutes, examination the dumplings for doneness alongside a toothpick. If they are non cooked thoroughly, set lid dorsum on in addition to railroad train roughly other five minutes. Spoon gravy over dumplings earlier serving.

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