Chicken stew & dumplings
Chicken stew & dumplings

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken stew & dumplings. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken stew & dumplings is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chicken stew & dumplings is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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

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