How to Make Ultimate Chicken stew & dumplings

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken stew & dumplings. One of my favorites food recipes. 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 is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chicken stew & dumplings is something that I’ve 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 have to first prepare a few components. You can have chicken stew & dumplings using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken stew & dumplings:

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

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