Chicken Stew with Fluffy Dumplings

🧂 Ingredients

• 3 cups chicken

  shredded (I cooked off and deboned a whole chicken) rotisserie chicken will also work
• 48 oz. chicken broth

  or use homemade broth saved from cooking off whole chicken
• 1 tsp. Salt and pepper

  to taste
• 1 tsp. dried rosemary
• 1 tsp. dried thyme
• 2 medium potatoes

  peeled and chunked
• 3 large carrots

  peeled, cut in one-inch pieces or sliced
• 2 ribs celery

  cut in one or two-inch pieces
• 1 large onion

  cut in strips
• 1 cup frozen or fresh green beans

  (about 6 ounces)
• 1 cup frozen or fresh peas

  (about 6 ounces)
• 1 cup frozen whole kernel corn

  (about 6 ounces)
• 1/3 cup gluten free flour

  or use regular flour or cornstarch
• 1/3 cup cold water
• 1 1/2 cups gluten free

  or all-purpose flour
• 3 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. sea salt
• 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
• 1 tbsp. dried parsley
• 1 tsp. dried thyme
• 1 tsp. dried rosemary
• 1 tsp. dried marjoram
• 1 tsp. dried dill weed
• 1 large egg

  beaten
• 1 tbsp. salted butter

  melted
• 3/4 cup half-and-half

Instructions

• 1 Place whole chicken in crockpot.
• 2 Fill with water.
• 3 Sprinkle generously with salt, pepper, thyme and rosemary.
• 4 Cook about 4-6 hours on high setting until chicken is done.
• 5 Debone chicken and save all of the chicken broth.
• 6 Transfer meat and chicken broth to another 7-qt. crockpot.
• 7 Add potatoes, carrots, celery and onion and cook on high approximately 2 ½ to
  three hours or until veggies are almost cooked through.
• 8 Add green beans, peas and corn and cook an additional hour to an hour and a
  half.
• 9 Combine GF flour or cornstarch and water.
• 10 Stir into crockpot.
• 11 Add dumplings.
• 12 Cover with lid and cook on high an additional 45-60 minutes or until dumplings
  are no longer doughy in the middle.
• 13 In a small mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt, pepper, parsley,
  thyme, rosemary, marjoram and dill weed.
• 14 In a separate bowl whisk egg, half-and-half and melted butter.
• 15 Add liquid mixture to dry mixture.
• 16 Stir well to combine.
• 17 If using gluten free flour, allow mixture to sit out on counter for about 5
  minutes to absorb and thicken.
• 18 Drop by large tablespoonfuls onto hot stew.
• 19 Cover slow cooker with lid and continue cooking in crockpot 45-60 minutes, or
  until a toothpick inserted in the center of the dumplings comes out clean (and
  dumplings no longer look gooey).

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