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Just a handful of ingredients in our easy Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings! Throw everything in the crockpot and when you come back you’ll have a big bowl of comfort food ready for you. We like lots of dumplings and this recipe doesn’t disappoint!
Minimal prep, major home cooked love vibes.
A Slow Cooker Full of Love. And Dumplings. That’s All You Really Need.
My dad didn’t make dinner often when I was a kid, but when he did it was often his crockpot chicken and dumplings.
Super hands off, super easy, minimal prep, and minimal ingredients. Pair that with the fact that the whole family was obsessed with this cozy comfort food kind of dinner and it’s no wonder it was his go-to!
We have a copycat recipe for Cracker Barrel Chicken and Dumplings that is more traditional, made with rolled dumplings and a bit more hands on time.
Our slow cooker chicken and dumplings? Made with canned biscuit dough to create more a drop dumpling situation with basically zero prep work.
While we absolutely love my dad’s homemade biscuits and our 7 Up Biscuits, we use canned in this recipe. They make life so easy sometimes!
3 Tips for Success:
- Flatten The Biscuits: The canned biscuit dough should be rolled out or flattened quite thin. They puff up during cooking so flattening them first helps them cook properly.
- Canned Soup: Our homemade cream of chicken soup substitute is a favorite of ours, but I don’t recommend it in this recipe. We use int consistently in casseroles, but the prolonged low heat of the crockpot can sometimes break the mixture. Canned is the way to go in this one.
- Breasts, Thighs, Veggies: This recipe is pretty forgiving! We prefer breasts, but you can swap in chicken thighs with no changes. Throw in some frozen and defrosted veggies to add a little color and get you feeling good about dinner.
How To Make Crockpot Chicken Dumplings:
We’re keeping this recipe super easy and convenient because we all need easy and convenient comfort food some days, right?
Slow Cook: Add everything but the biscuits to a slow cooker, stir to combine, and cover. Cook on low for 7 hours or high for 3 hours.
Shred: When the chicken is tender, use a couple of forks to shred the meat. Give everything a good stir.
Dumplings: Open up a can of biscuits and press the dough into flat rounds. Use a sharp knife or pizza cutter to cut the dough into narrow strips and drop those into the crockpot. Give it a quick stir and then cover the pot and cook for another hour.
Taste & Serve: After an hour, the biscuits should be soft and fluffy. Some slow cookers take longer to cook than others, so you may have to adjust a bit depending on your slow cooker.
That’s it! Serve this up in a big bowl or over a pile of mashed potatoes. Either way, these chicken and dumplings are oh so good!
More Crockpot Recipes To Try:
Crockpot Honey Garlic Chicken: This chicken is so juicy and so flavorful!
Potato Soup: Nothing is tastier than a big bowl of potato soup topped off with cheese and bacon!
Crockpot Pork Chops: These are smothered in a delicious and easy gravy!
Crockpot Ribs: Easily my favorite slow cooker recipe!
Crockpot Chicken and Dumplings
Ingredients
- 2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 small sweet onion diced
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 2 10 ounce cans cream of chicken soup
- 3 cups chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning
- 1 teaspoon dried parsley
- 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1 package 8-count refrigerated biscuit dough
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients except for the biscuit dough to a 6 quart slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Cover and cook on high for 3 hours or low for 6 hours.
- When chicken is cooked through and tender, use two forks to shred the meat. Stir to combine.
- Open the can of biscuits and press each biscuit flat. Cut the biscuits into narrow strips and add to the slow cooker. Stir to combine.
- Cover and cook on high for 1 hour or until the biscuits are cooked. Biscuits should be light and fluffy when finished.
- Serve immediately.
shawna says
Found this yesterday looking for crock pot chicken and dumpling recipes and I’m very glad I did. I used the ingredients of your homemade cream of chicken recipe (just simply added the ingredients to the crockpot, did not melt it together first) and it worked wonderfully. I didn’t have poultry seasoning so I used sage, thyme and rosemary. When it was time to put the biscuits in, I used flaky grands and did not make them as flat as you said and also put in some frozen mixed vegs (peas, carrots, green beans, corn). Everybody really liked it, and my daughter had already decided beforehand that she wouldn’t and she really liked it. Thank you for sharing.
Karly says
So glad it turned out well!
Candice M. says
I made this recipe today and although it turned out good, the onion overwhelmed the overall taste of the dish.
I will make this recipe again but omit the onion next time.
Karly says
My guess is that you ended up with a strong onion – sometimes they have such a bold flavor. 🙂
Frank craig says
I made this recipe it was really good
Karly says
So glad to hear that!
Diane says
I followed this recipe. The dumplings turned out terrible! Very disappointing and I didn’t have a backup dinner to serve. ?
Karly says
I’m sorry this one didn’t work out for you. It has so many positive reviews that I wonder if it’s just not to your taste or if you used a different type of biscuit that didn’t hold up well?
Angie Cronin says
Can you substitute the bisquits for gnochi?
Karly says
I’ve never tried.
Kelsey says
Hello! Are you able to use frozen chicken or should it be thawed ?
Karly says
I’ve only made this with fresh chicken.
Samantha B Coldren says
biscuits were way too mushy. I followed instructions to a T. Will looks for another way to make dumplings, but over all it was ediable. thank you
Connie says
If I use chicken that’s already cooked, about how long should I “cook” in the crock pot?
Karly says
I can’t say for sure, since I’ve never tried it, but I’d probably cook it for an hour to get it all hot and then start the biscuit process. 🙂
Brianne says
I just made this for the first time. I used the high setting. I also added carrots and celery. It was delicious! Everything came out perfectly! I highly recommend and will be sharing the recipe. Thank you!
Kris says
My family and I did not enjoy this version of Chicken and dumplings. The flavor was a little off.????
Ansley says
I also agree with you Kris. Everything came out perfectly except the flavor was way to overwhelming for chicken and dumplings. Maybe I will try not using the poultry seasoning next time.
sfgal says
It’s interesting to me when people confuse dumplings with biscuits. Yep, you can totally use biscuit dough to make dumplings in a crock pot. But don’t expect them to be biscuit textured. They ceased being biscuits when you flattened them and cooked them in steam! They are now dumplings. Dumplings are supposed to be a doughier texture than biscuits. You can also make chicken and biscuits, but that’s not the title of this recipe 😉 So… if you want them to be biscuits just make them as directed on the package/tube and then add them to the chicken at the end.
Candace says
Exactly!
Jamie Keegan says
I made this the other night, but I baked the biscuits and added peas. I also made egg noodles to ladle the chicken mixture over. My family absolutely loved it!! There were no leftovers, which is very unusual. Definitely going to make this many, many more times!
Melissa says
This was my first time making chicken & dumplings, and it came out great. Adjustments I made: I only used 2 cups broth. Added 3 fresh chopped carrots and 2 ribs of celery chopped. Cut biscuits into squares with a pizza cutter, doused them in flour, then stirred them in. Followed everything else as written. It came out thick and delicious, very satisfying. Even the toddler devoured it. Will add salt and rosemary next time. Thank you for the great recipe!
Amber says
How long did you cook the celery and carrots?
Terri says
I’m cooking now and seems as if it’s going to be fine, I just want to make sure the broth is hot enough for the biscuits, reading the different outcomes’
Vicki Fales says
Can this be made with beef, and either be gravy or au jus?
Karly says
Hmm, I’ve never tried.
Danielle Shurley says
Can I double or triple this recipe but still cook it in the crockpot? How many hours if so? I’m boiling the chicken ahead of time.
Karly says
If this would fit in your crockpot after doubling/tripling, it should work fine. I’ve only tested this as directed so I can’t say how long it will take if you’re starting off with pre-cooked chicken.