Thursday, April 7, 2011

Recipe of the Day: Chicken & Dumplings

Disclaimer: These recipes are not my creation! They come from various places. I just wanted to save them for my personal collection, and share them here.

Servings: 10
Serving Size: 1 cup

Per Serving
Calories: 284.2
Total Fat: 3.2 g
Cholesterol: 29.1 mg
Sodium: 1,258.1 mg
Total Carbs: 42.5 g
Dietary Fiber: 1.6 g
Protein: 18.9 g

Ingredients
1 4-pack Pillsbury Country Biscuits (red or blue pack) (13 servings 2,000 calories)
3 cans Swanson Natural Goodness Chicken Broth (6 cups 90 calories)
3 cans water
1 can Healthy Request Cream of Chicken 98% Fat Free (this is also low sodium) (1 can has 2.5, half cup servings or 1.25 cups)
1/2 cup skim milk (43 calories)
4 Chicken Breast halves (frozen) (520 calories)

Directions
The 360 minutes of cooking time comes from using a crock pot to cook the chicken. (you don't have to do it this way) In large pot (I use an 8qt.) Boil the chicken breasts in the chicken broth and water. Remove the chicken when done and shred with 2 forks, add back to broth. Add cream of chicken soup and milk, then bring back to boil. Cut the biscuits into smaller pieces(I use a pizza cutter) 4 or 6 per biscuit and stir gradually into boiling broth. Once all the biscuits are in the broth reduce heat and simmer about 25 minutes, stirring often. Add black pepper as desired.

*Note to save some time before dinner you can also put the water, chicken and the chicken broth into the crockpot on low for 6 hours or so, then shred the chicken and tramsfer and the remaining broth/water into a large pot. You may need to add more broth or water if it cooks out while in the crock pot. Bring the broth to a rolling boil before adding dumplings (or you'll have a gummy mess) and once you begin adding dumplings stir very frequently. Once all dumplings are added, then cover and simmer on low.

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