Easy Chicken and Dumplings

Prep 30 min
Total 40 min
Ingredients 7
Servings 4

Using Progresso™ broth and Pillsbury™ Grands!™ biscuits in this homemade chicken and dumplings recipe streamlines your prep time to just 30 minutes. You’ll be rewarded with a savory, steamy chicken in broth with light, fluffy dumplings as the topping. MORE+ LESS-

By Pillsbury Kitchens

Updated June 13, 2019

Make with

Pillsbury Biscuits

Ingredients

carton (32 oz) Progresso™ reduced-sodium chicken broth (4 cups)

cups shredded cooked chicken (about 1 1/2 lb)

can (10 3/4 oz) condensed cream of chicken soup

1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning

can (16.3 oz) Pillsbury™ Grands!™ Southern Homestyle refrigerated Buttermilk biscuits (8 biscuits)

medium carrots, chopped (1 cup)

celery ribs, chopped

Steps

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1

In 4- to 5-quart Dutch oven, heat broth, chicken, soup and poultry seasoning to boiling over medium-high heat; reduce heat to low. Cover; simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Increase heat to medium-high; return to a low boil.
2

On lightly floured surface, roll or pat each biscuit to 1/8-inch thickness; cut into 1/2-inch-wide strips.
3

Drop strips, one at a time, into boiling chicken mixture. Add carrots and celery. Reduce heat to low. Cover; simmer 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent dumplings from sticking.

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Expert Tips

Poultry seasoning is a flexible blend of sage, thyme, marjoram, rosemary, nutmeg, and black pepper. Every brand has its own proprietary ratio of each herb and spice, but sage tends to be the predominant flavor and is especially complementary to chicken. If you don’t have a bottle of a poultry blend, experiment and make up your own.
Refrigerated biscuit dough is a natural stand-in for homemade dumplings—the dough is nearly identical, and you don’t have to mix up the dough. The strips will actually cook more evenly than if a large dumpling was dropped into the hot filling.
The creamy filling is the right foil for leftover (or rotisserie) roasted or grilled chicken. Go beyond carrots and celery—try chopped leeks, broccoli, cut green beans, or sugar snap peas.

Nutrition Information

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Serving

Calories: 640
Calories from Fat: 240

% Daily Value

Total Fat: 26g; 41%
Saturated Fat 13g 63% Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol: 100mg; 33%
Sodium: 2090mg; 87%
Potassium: 460mg; 13%
Total Carbohydrate: 62g; 21%
Dietary Fiber 2g 10% Sugars 10g
Protein: 38g

% Daily Value*:

Vitamin A: 110%; 110%
Vitamin C: 2%; 2%
Calcium: 4%; 4%
Iron: 20%; 20%

Exchanges:

3 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 1/2 Vegetable; 4 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 4 1/2 Fat;

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*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

More About This Recipe

This chicken and dumplings soup is super easy to make thanks to Pillsbury™ biscuit dough, but you can make it even easier! The recipe calls for cooked chicken; instead of cooking the chicken yourself and taking the time to shred it, pick up some shredded rotisserie chicken from the grocery store so all the prep work is already done for you. Have even more leftover rotisserie chicken? We have plenty more chicken soup recipes you can make after this one. And make your soups even better by reading some of our best tips and tricks for toppings and sides to serve with them.